Quotes of: Characters Keyword

The starting point of 's theory of evolution is precisely the existence of those differences between individual members of a race or species which morphologists for the most part rightly neglect. The first condition necessary, in order that any proce...

Karl Pearson

Up until relatively recently, creating original characters from scratch wasn't a major part of an author's job description. When Virgil wrote The Aeneid, he didn't invent Aeneas; Aeneas was a minor character in Homer's Odyssey whose unauthorized furt...

Lev Grossman

Two distinctive traits especially identify beyond a doubt a strong and dominant character. One trait is contempt for external circumstances, when one is convinced that men ought to respect, to desire, and to pursue only what is moral and right, that ...

Marcus Tullius Cicero

There is absolutely a big difference between getting a date and getting a husband. Being overly materialistic can get a lady some dates, but an impeccable character will surely get her a husband of a lifetime. Men that know what they truly want in li...

Edmond Mbiaka

Intuition is the lifeblood of a woman and the essential character of a man."-Serena Jade

Charismatic Connection: The Authentic Soul Mate Experience

There are times when I am so unlike myself that I might be taken for someone else of an entirely opposite character.

Confessions

There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they find to laugh at.

Elective Affinities

...if you're an actor, and you've thought your way into the part, then you're character portrayal will have authority...

A Familiar Rain

If we women were particular about men's characters, we should never get married at all.

Heartbreak House

As the caterpillar undergoes transformation within the cocoon before emerging as a butterfly; likewise, life experiences shape character.

Babygirl

I was truly happy. But my state was not that of any ordinary satisfaction. It was a joy which stemmed directly from creative, artistic achievement.

Building a Character

It’s not our mistakes that define us. It’s the lessons we learn that show our true character.

Bring Me Home

The Adventure called and I followed with my thumb like a character being written by an intractable author. Which, of course, I was.

Beginner's Luke

What character with any sense of aesthetics desires a cradle-to-grave account of himself? That’s so passé, so nineteenth-century.

Beginner's Luke

Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character

Browning's Paracelsus: Being the Text of Browning's Poem

A lot can be said with just a look, or the way the body moves. Each song is a different character. So each song takes on a different movement of the body. And the body has to go with the subject and the attitude that you have toward that subject.

Eartha Kitt

A minister of Jesus Christ should not be regardless of his attitude. If he is the representative of Jesus Christ, his deportment, his attitude, his gestures, should be of that character which will not strike the beholder with disgust.

Ellen G. White

You've got to leave the reader with more than just a name and a costume - they need to know who the character is, what they're like, what kind of attitude they have, what sort of role they play.

Kurt Busiek

I am super-proud to have a sort of famous character in my background that if you're a certain age, he was probably a part of your youth. I think that's pretty cool.

Adam Brody

Children who reach the age of eighteen with their entire skills set composed on Nintendo and eating Doritos have been neglected. Their parents neglected to give them the character traits necessary to live successfully.

Dave Ramsey

There was a best-selling book in the late '60s and '70s called 'The Adventurers' by Harold Robbins. The lead character's name was Dax. Anyone that's roughly my age that's named Dax is named from that book.

Dax Shepard