Famous Quotes & Sayings

Iris Murdoch

emotions really exist at the bottom of the personality or at the top. in the middle they are acted. this is why all the world is a stage.

Ella Baker

This In Friendship - out of it came certain connections with the liberal labor establishment. Among the personalities that were involved were Bayard Rustin and a person from the American Jewish Congress, Stanley Levinson.

J. K. Rowling

They see Hermione as someone who is not vulnerable, but I see her as someone who does have quite a lot of vulnerability in her personality.

Grace Kelly

Although I’ve played a wide variety of roles, I’ve never had the chance to act in a story written specially for me. It’s a pity as they are the only stories that really let you reveal your personality.

Georg Brandes

The masses are only to be regarded as one of three things: either as copies of great personalities, bad copies, clumsily produced in a poor material, or as foils to the great, or finally as their tools

Vivienne Westwood

If you dress up, it helps your personality to emerge - if you choose well.

Robert Green Ingersoll

An infinite personality is an infinite impossibility.

Jacques Maritain

In each of us there dwells a mystery, and that mystery is the human personality.

Muriel Spark

...try as i do, i can't recall her surname. Indeed, her very abstractedness and insubstantial personality seemed to say 'forget me'; she seemed to live in parenthesis;...

Keith Carradine

One can't help but bring one's own personality into what one is doing, and it's certainly true of us actors and it's true of writers.

Kate Chopin

She was still under the spell of her infatuation. She had tried to forget him, realizing the inutility of remembering. But the thought of him was like an obsession, ever pressing itself upon her. It was not that she dwelt upon details of their acquaintance, or recalled in any special or peculiar way his personality; it was his being, his existence, which dominated her thought, fading sometimes as if it would melt into the mist of the forgotten, reviving again with an intensity which filled her with an incomprehensible longing.

Martin Kippenberger

My style is where you see the individual and where a personality is communicated through actions, decisions, single objects and facts, where the whole draws together to form a history

Princess Diana

There's no better way to dismantle a personality than to isolate it.

Oscar Wilde

I live in terror of not being misunderstood.

Oprah Winfrey

Align your personality with your purpose, and no one can touch you.

Oprah Winfrey

I know that I am more than my personality, my body, and my body image.

Martin Amis

Your purpose when driving is not to arrive at your destination safely or quickly. Your purpose when driving is...to impress your personality on the road.

Quentin Crisp

Style, in the broadest sense of all, is consciousness. More specifically it is a consistent idiom arising spontaneously from the personality but deliberately maintained.

Prince

I ain't got no money - But I'm rich on personality

Phillips Brooks

Preaching is truth through personality.

Terence McKenna

LSD is different. LSD is like psychoanalytical Drano. It's not a personality.

Terence McKenna

The overriding problems are brought on by the existence of the ego, a maladaptive behavioral complex in the psyche that gets going like a tumor. If it's not treated - if there's not pharmacological intervention - it becomes the dominant constellation of the personality..

Randolph Bourne

A cultivation of the powers of one's personality is one of the greatest needs of life.

Ram Kapoor

To get scared is something not in my personality.

Shinichi Suzuki

Wrong education and upbringing produces ugly personalities, whereas a fine upbringing and good education will bring forth superior sense and feeling, as well as nobility and purity of mind.

Laura Prepon

On a lot of shows that I've done, we had the same directors, which was cool. But then, it's also great to do shows where the director changes every week because you get to see all these different personalities and see what you like dealing with better, as an actor. But, Jodie was amazing.

Marc Maron

Everyone is a little bitter. We're born bitter. The personality itself is really just a very complex defense mechanism. A reaction to the first time someone said, "No you can't.

Thomas A. Edison

Nobody knows whether our personalities pass on to another existence or sphere, but if we can evolve an instrument so delicate to be manipulated by our personality as it survives in the next life such an instrument ought to record something...

Thomas A. Edison

I have been at work for some time building an apparatus to see if it is possible for personalities which have left this earth to communicate with us.

Tatiana Maslany

I'm excited to work on something where I have a bit more time with it, to explore one personality. That's definitely exciting to me.

Talcott Parsons

The functions of the family in a highly differentiated society are not to be interpreted as functions directly on behalf of the society, but on behalf of personality.

Lauren Bacall

I hope I'm thought of as not just a showbiz personality, but as someone who has lived a life and who has hopefully made a contribution to something along the way - someone who is a human being as well as an actress.

John Key

Your personality as the prime minister feeds through to what you emphasise, and what you don't, how you'll handle a situation - whether you've got the combination of intelligence or instincts to adapt and to make good decisions.