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character interesting people
... what such people miscall their religion, is a vent for their bad humours and arrogance. Charles Dickens
character water taste
Words are in this respect like water, that they often take their taste, flavour, and character, from the mouth out of which they proceed, as the water from the channel through which it flows. Charles Caleb Colton
character long aging
Short as life is, some find it long enough to outlive their characters, their constitutions and their estates.
character winter giving
Sir," returned Mrs. Sparsit, " I cannot say that i have heard him precisely snore, and therefore must not make that statement. But on winter evenings, when he has fallen asleep at his table, I have heard him, what I should prefer to describe as partially choke. I have heard him on such occasions produce sounds of a nature similar to what may be heard in dutch clocks. Not," said Mrs. Sparsit, with a lofty sense of giving strict evidence, " That I would convey any imputation on his moral character. Far from it.
character voice interesting
He had a cringing manner, but a very harsh voice; and his blandest smiles were so extremely forbidding, that to have had his company under the least repulsive circumstances, one would have wished him to be out of temper that he might only scowl.
character men hands
The haggard aspect of the little old man was wonderfully suited to the place; he might have groped among old churches and tombs and deserted houses and gathered all the spoils with his own hands. There was nothing in the whole collection but was in keeping with himself nothing that looked older or more worn than he.
character butterfly interesting
Everything that Mr Smallweed's grandfather ever put away in his mind was a grub at first, and is a grub at last. In all his life he has never bred a single butterfly.
character agony numbers
He had a sense of his dignity, which was of the most exquisite nature. He could detect a design upon it when nobody else had any perception of the fact. His life was made an agony by the number of fine scalpels that he felt to be incessantly engaged in dissecting his dignity.
character men air
He had a certain air of being a handsome man-which he was not; and a certain air of being a well-bred man-which he was not. It was mere swagger and challenge; but in this particular, as in many others, blustering assertion goes for proof, half over the world.
worry no-point
There is no point in me worrying about what Bloomberg or Badillo will do. David Dinkins
worry flying captains
I always say the time to worry about flying is when you're on the ground. If you don't trust the captain, don't go. Denzel Washington
worry today way
Worrying about tomorrow is the best way to screw up today. Denis Leary
worry exhausted desperation
To worry is to become accessible, unwittingly accessible. And once you worry you cling to anything out of desperation; and once you cling you are bound to get exhausted or to exhaust whoever or whatever you are clinging to. Carlos Castaneda
worry going-away trying
It's an organic thing that I try not to analyze too much, because I worry that it will go away. Aasif Mandvi
worry faces enough
Let's face it: It's difficult enough to be funny without worrying about what is going to offend whom. Alan King
worry way live-by
Don't worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it. Alan Kay
worry these-days dies
I am not bad, thank you. But don't worry, one of these days I shall certainly die. Charles de Gaulle
worry personality impossible
I don't worry about how accurately I convey my personality. I learned early on that it's almost impossible to accurately portray yourself. Chester Brown
plot cliche generic
The cliches are that it's the most generic Starsky and Hutch plot you can find. Ben Stiller
plot shapes divinity
Rashly, And praised be rashness for it--let us know, Our indiscretion sometime serves us well When our deep plots do pall, and that should learn us There's a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will William Shakespeare
plot hiding subtle
The more subtle and elegant you are in hiding your plot points, the better you are as a writer. Billy Wilder
plot lucky
I'm one of the lucky writers: plots come easily to me Caroline B. Cooney
plot storytelling shows
Anything that happens on any show is a plot contrivance because that's just storytelling. Bryan Fuller
plot communist buried
Show me where Stalin is buried and I'll show you a Communist Plot. Edgar Bergen
plot reach
They were intercepted before the plot could reach fruition.
plot steps year
Think about where you want to be in a year or two, then plot out the steps you need to take to get there.
plot three scene
A good novel is an indivisible sum; every scene, sequence and passage of a good novel has to involve, contribute to and advance all three of its major attributes: theme, plot, characterization. Ayn Rand