Famous Quotes & Sayings

Andrew Ference

There's strong character in our dressing room. Right now, it's just a matter of execution. If everybody shows up and does their job, I think there's a ton of confidence.

There's so much character and history in that than there ever would be in a Wal-Mart.

Rick Carlisle

There's a feeling that our players are misinterpreted and a little misunderstood because of various factors. Dress would be one of them. As a league, we know we have good people. We have great guys on our team. . . . I feel like what our team did last year (after the brawl) is a much better indicator of the character and quality of people in our league than anything else people might want to surmise in terms of perception.

Pete Carroll

There's no question he stepped out of character so we have to help him. We went through it the way that we do it. We considered all the circumstances and how remorseful the guy was.

Colin Trevorrow

There's no need for a female character that does things like a male character; that's not what makes interesting female characters in my view.

Jim Carrey

There's new territory, there's new places to go, new things to explore. Why stay back there? ... Maybe it will take three films to find another character that is really totally original, but I've got a lifetime, so why waste it just repeating myself.

Jean Schmidt

There's no way that I remotely tried to impugn his character,

Chris Scelfo

There's not one kid in that locker room that doesn't lack for character. I'm extremely proud of the way they played.

The Town of Herndon with its historical heritage and small town character has grown very dear to me and my family. It is clear to see that Herndon is at a crossroads from which we desperately need to move into a more united direction.

Miriam Toews

I stare out the window and reflect on the similarity between writing and saving a life and the inevitable failure of one's imagination and one's goals and ambitions to create a character or a life worth saving.

What happened tonight validates our program. When you play with a lot of character and heart like our kids did it makes the game fun.

G. H. Hardy

We teach our guys it's all about character and class and we showed a lot of both.

(Thursday) was a big test of character for our guys. We know Tampa Prep will be a huge challenge, but we're up for it.

We just could not get a rhythm going, you know, nothing consistent. Totally out of character for us. We kind of reverted back to the days of November.

We just put on an unbelievable four minutes of defensive pressure. It just showed such tremendous character and heart.

What (stores like Twist and Shout) can give you is what was recently referred to at a music convention was 'the Jack Black' - the character he played in that movie (Hi Fidelity) about the record store - the guy who turns you on to music.

We showed so much character this tournament, and it'll help even more later in the season. Rallying back Friday night (for a 49-48 victory over Booker T. Washington) and then coming back like this tonight will help us in the district.

We showed some character tonight. (Rogers) could have crumbled. We don't like to do anything real easy.

We showed good character to keep working, even when we got behind. We picked up our work ethic, and maybe using four lines was a factor. Late in the game we had more jump and that really helped.

We showed character and we showed fight. We got down, and we still continued to fight and lost by eight.

We showed a lot of poise, composure and character. I don't know if a lot of teams would have come back.

We try to be very competitive. We try to be near the lowest ones (in price). The rooms are pretty nice. They're mountain-lodge like. They pretty much all have character and there's a variety for people's tastes.

Dorothea Dix

Man is not made better by being degraded; he is seldom restrained from crime by harsh measures, except the principle of fear predominates in his character; and then he is never made radically better for its influence.

Dorothea Brande

Most of the methods of training the conscious side of the writer-the craftsman and the critic in him- are actually hostile to the good of the artist's side; and the converse of this proposition is likewise true. But it is possible to train both sides of the character to work in harmony, and the first step in that education is to consider that you must teach yourself not as though you were one person, but two.

Dorothy Allison

I'll tell you the secret. When you begin with a character, you want to begin by creating a villain.

Dorothy Allison

I need you to do more than survive. As writers, as revolutionaries, tell the truth, your truth in your own way. Do not buy into their system of censorship, imagining that if you drop this character or hide that emotion, you can slide through their blockades. Do not eat your heart out in the hope of pleasing them.

Doris Lessing

I don't think that the feminist movement has done much for the characters of women.

Donna Mills

I was always cutting dialogue out when we were rehearsing, and when I produced movies, too. I felt that people don't say things in life - they act, they do things. I always wanted my characters doing, rather than saying what they were doing - which was redundant.

Donnie Wahlberg

I try to ground most of my characters in reality somehow. That's kind of what I bring to the table.

Donnie Wahlberg

I didnt get arrested to show off my wild character. People say its a gimmick for all five of us to be different. Thats ridiculous.

Donna Tartt

Character, to me, is the life's blood of fiction

Donna Tartt

I love the tradition of Dickens, where even the most minor walk-on characters are twitching and particular and alive.

Donald Hall

Opposites are attracted when each one is anxious about its own character.