Quotes about character
character people fearless
People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest. It was a scandal that a breed of fearless and sinister people ran around freely, so they attached a nickname and a myth to these people to get even with them, to make up for the many times they had felt afraid. Hermann Hesse
character men tests
There is no such test of a man's superiority of character as in the well-conducting of an unavoidable quarrel. Henry Taylor
character men sailing
Of all the things that man has made, no is so full of interest and charm, none possesses so distinct a life and character of its own, as a ship. Henry Van Dyke
character writing easy
If you once understand an author's character, the comprehension of his writings becomes easy. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
character perfection simplicity
Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.
character personality literature
Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
character paper sitting
Nobody can put a character on paper without - at any rate in part and at times - sitting as a model for it himself. Henrik Ibsen
character writing wrinkles
Before I write down one word, I have to have the character in my mind through and through. I must penetrate into the last wrinkle of his soul.
character order risk
A rapid rendering of a landscape represents only one moment of its existence. I prefer, by insisting upon its essential character, to risk losing charm in order to gain greater stability. Henri Matisse
character artist expression
An artist who wants to transpose a composition onto a larger canvas must conceive it over again in order to preserve its expression; he must alter its character and not just fill in the squares into which he has divided his canvas.
character young claws
A young woman has young claws, well sharpened. If she has character, that is. And if she hasn't so much the worse for you.
character angel heart
All that hath been majestical In life or death, since time began, Is native in the simple heart of all, The angel heat of man. James Russell Lowell
character break-through style
One of the things particularly admirable in the public utterances of President Lincoln is a certain tone of familiar dignity, which, while it is perhaps the most difficult attainment of mere style, is also no doubtful indication of personal character. There must be something essentially noble in an elective ruler who can descend to the level of confidential ease without forfeiting respect, something very manly in one who can break through the etiquette of his conventional rank and trust himself to the reason and intelligence of those who have elected him.
character actors good-actors
Any good actor is a character actor. James Remar
character differences stories
The only difference is that religion is much better organized and has been around much longer, but it's the same story with different characters and different costumes. James Randi
character
It's definitely not the character who it is in the comics, I'll say that much. James Gunn
character technology people
In hard-core science fiction in which characters are responding to a change in environment, caused by nature or the universe or technology, what readers want to see is how people cope, and so the character are present to cope, or fail to cope.
character writing giving
I have undertaken, you see, to write not only my life, but my opinions also; hoping and expecting that your knowledge of my character, and of what kind of a mortal I am, by the one, would give you a better relish for the other: As you proceed further with me, the slight acquaintance which is now beginning betwixt us, will grow into familiarity; and that, unless one of us is in fault, will terminate in friendship. Laurence Sterne
character passion heart
The great end of all religionis to purify our hearts--and conquer our passions--and in a word, to make us wiser and better men--better neighbours--better citizens--and better servants of GOD.
character men thinking
Surely, 'tis one step towards acting well, to think worthily of our nature; and as in common life, the way to make a man honest, is, to suppose him soso here, to set some value upon ourselves, enables us to support the characterof generosity and virtue.
character men omission
The truth and regularity of a character is not, in justice, to be looked upon as broken, from any one single act or omission which may seem a contradiction to it:Mthe best of men appear sometimes to be strange compounds of contradictory qualities.
character play order
You have to have sympathy for and an empathy with a character in order to play them. Laura Carmichael
character thinking lead-characters
No one goes through life thinking that theyre the best friend of the lead character.
character play giving
Whatever character you play, it gives you the chance to expose another side of yourself that maybe you've never felt comfortable with, or never knew about Laura Dern
character reign
... character reigns preeminent in determining potential. Laura Hillenbrand
character garden thinking
Did you ever think how a bit of land shows the character of the owner? Laura Ingalls Wilder
character mean thinking
'Dallas' hit a chord back in the late Seventies and Eighties because it was the age of greed: here you have this unapologetic character who is mean and nasty and ruthless and does it all with an evil grin. I think people related to JR back then because we all have someone we know exactly like him. Everyone in the world knows a JR. Larry Hagman
character thinking once-upon-a-time
On 'Swingtown,' I think that's when I was able to blend the character-slash-leading lady roles, and that's what I'm doing on 'Once Upon a Time' as well. She's a leading lady, but she's also this character. Lana Parrilla
character interesting stories
It is a rare American who does not have some story about how music has made our lives richer and more interesting, how it has changed our moods, brought out the best in our character and even sometimes helped us earn a living. Lamar Alexander
character sometimes handle
Sometimes your gift takes you to a place that your character is not prepared to handle. Kwame Kilpatrick
character thinking littles
I think there's a part of me that feels the need to hide a little bit behind a character. Kurt Sutter
character actors may
As an actor, I've been drawn to those characters that are further away from who I may be.
character blue velvet
I questioned everything. I didn't see a character developed in Platoon at all. The character in Blue Velvet was much more fascinating to me Kyle MacLachlan