All Quotes

The character of a people may be ruined by charity.
‐‐ Theodor Herzl

The character of instrumental music... lets the emotions radiate and shine in their own character without presuming to display them as real or imaginary representations.
‐‐ Franz Liszt

The character of Johnny Drama was a lot of fun to play.
‐‐ Kevin Dillon

The character of Matt LeBlanc in 'Episodes' has some real dark sides, and Matt wasn't afraid to explore those.
‐‐ Jeffrey Klarik

The character of Rosie is based on a woman who used to live in the same apartment building I lived in many years ago. She's taken on a life of her own, of course.
‐‐ Sue Grafton

The character of the artist doesn't enter into the nature of the art.
‐‐ Lucian Freud

The character of the computer whiz is not one that would normally be associated with me.
‐‐ Ving Rhames

The character of the monkey just grew from something out of his face and my granddad's personality. They fused, and that's what I ended up with! The monkey belonged to a friend of mine, and I saw that it had such a little beguiling face and it grew from there.
‐‐ Nina Conti

The characteristic feature of modernity is criticism: what is new is set over and against what is old, and it is this constant contrast that constitutes the continuity of tradition.
‐‐ Octavio Paz

The characteristic human trait is not awareness but conformity, and the characteristic result is religious warfare. Other animals fight for territory or food; but, uniquely in the animal kingdom, human beings fight for their 'beliefs.'
‐‐ Michael Crichton

The characteristic of coquettes is affectation governed by whim.
‐‐ Henry Fielding

The characteristic of great innovators and great companies is they see a space that others do not. They don't just listen to what people tell them; they actually invent something new, something that you didn't know you needed, but the moment you see it, you say, 'I must have it.'
‐‐ Eric Schmidt

The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
‐‐ Gaston Bachelard

The characteristic of the hour is that the commonplace mind, knowing itself to be commonplace, has the assurance to proclaim the rights of the commonplace and to impose them wherever it will.
‐‐ Jose Ortega y Gasset

The characteristic political attitude of today is not one of positive belief, but of despair.
‐‐ Herbert Read

The characteristic shared by people at the top of their profession is that, to get better, they crave criticism. Most people don't like criticism, but if you are trying to shave two tenths of a second at 800 metres, that is what you crave.
‐‐ Sebastian Coe

The characteristics of an authentically empowered personality are humbleness, clarity, forgiveness and love.
‐‐ Gary Zukav

The characters are always the focal point of a book for me, whether I'm writing or reading. I may enjoy a book that has an intriguing mystery or a good plot, but to become one of my real favorites, it has to have great characters.
‐‐ Candace Camp

The characters are not allowed to change if you write a sitcom; they're not allowed to learn anything. There's all these sorts of rules, and you go, 'I just want to be able to write one character and then leave that behind.' Also, as a performer, and I may regret saying this, but it would be my own personal hell to be trapped in the sitcom.
‐‐ Alice Lowe

The characters are that vague TV high school age, but they'll be in high school as long as we need them to be.
‐‐ Josh Schwartz

The characters are the result of two things-first, we elaborate them into fairly well-defined people through their dialogue, then they happen all over again, when the actor interprets them.
‐‐ Joel Coen

The characters are trapped within the lifestyle. It's about what goes on before the movie starts.
‐‐ Sam Mendes

The characters are whole, real people to me that I'm getting to know, and since real people are all flawed, so are my characters, I hope.
‐‐ Sara Zarr

The characters can't be wittier than people are in real life. They have to be character witty.
‐‐ Dylan Moran

The characters do have a life of their own; it's weird.
‐‐ Julie Walters

The characters emerge from my rather twisted mind. That's another enjoyable part of the job making stuff up.
‐‐ Jonathan Kellerman

The characters I'm most emotionally involved with are like friends you leave behind when you move away. You don't see them regularly anymore, but you still love them and keep in touch.
‐‐ Mary Doria Russell

The characters I've played as an actress have been really challenging and emotionally rewarding, but there was just something missing. I was finding over and over again that directors were looking to me to help with troubles on set as far as characters' relationships, special effects and story points were concerned.
‐‐ Danielle Harris

The characters I've played, especially Bret Maverick and Jim Rockford, almost never use a gun, and they always try to use their wits instead of their fists.
‐‐ James Garner

The characters I've played have been mostly violent, and I'm so far from being violent or aggressive. I spend a lot of time watching 'Fireman Sam' with my three-year-old son Louis.
‐‐ Tom Hardy

The characters I write about are very internal.
‐‐ Michael Connelly

The characters in 'Be Near Me' come from a genuine place, a Britain that is more than one country and more than one ideal.
‐‐ Andrew O'Hagan

The characters in my stories all have quite loud lives in my head. It's a relief to get them on the page. Often they come from people I've noticed or overheard - but that is only a part of them. It's only by writing that I discover who these people really are.
‐‐ Rachel Joyce

The characters in my stories, whether historical or fictional, usually prove to be a compilation of influences taken from differing sources, but never drawn from one model.
‐‐ Thomas Steinbeck

The characters in the book grow up with us. My voice has broken as well.
‐‐ Rupert Grint

The characters that aren't what they seem to be or women who are stronger than people give them credit for or characters you underestimate, I always think are really interesting because there are so many possibilities with them.
‐‐ Valorie Curry

The characters that have greys are the more interesting characters. The hero who sometimes crosses the line and the villain who sometimes doesn't are just much more interesting.
‐‐ Geoff Johns

The characters that I'm typically drawn to are sensitive men who are experiencing some sense of identity crisis or growth in their life that they don't know how to overcome.
‐‐ Billy Crudup

The characters that I want to play are interesting women. I don't care if they're good women or bad women or vulnerable women or women with a lot of faults or women that we dislike intensely who are malicious.
‐‐ Gwendoline Christie

The characters that populate my books are global nomads in their own right, keeping multiple homes around the world and constantly jet-setting to new places.
‐‐ Kevin Kwan

The characters, to me, in 'Homeland' are not one note in any way.
‐‐ Lesli Linka Glatter

The characters you refer to as predatory and unsavory are useful. They're the ones who make a novel into a thriller. They're active, and most of the common virtues, the signs of a good person, are not.
‐‐ Thomas Perry

The charge of being ambiguous and indefinite may be brought against every human composition, and necessarily arises from the imperfection of language. Perhaps no two men will express the same sentiment in the same manner and by the same words; neither do they connect precisely the same ideas with the same words.
‐‐ Oliver Ellsworth

The charge that liberal candidates don't connect with or understand the values and beliefs of regular Americans is embedded in old epithets like 'limousine liberal,' which I first heard aimed at New York Mayor John Lindsay in 1969.
‐‐ Jeff Greenfield

The charge was left entirely to himself from midnight until the rising of the sun; and if all the shepherds in the Forest had been there to have assisted him, they could not have effected it with greater propriety.
‐‐ James Hogg

The chariot was purchased by a private collector who took it home to New York. I take pleasure in knowing that it was built to last for at least a thousand years.
‐‐ Kit Williams

The charity that is a trifle to us can be precious to others.
‐‐ Homer

The charity work is just a part of what I do. Like... I make time to clean my house, to care for my pets, to visit my extended family, because those things are important to me. Same with helping others.
‐‐ Lori Foster

The charm of Brittany is to be found in the people and in the churches. The former, with their peculiar costumes and their customs, are full of interest, and the latter are of remarkable beauty and quaintness.
‐‐ Sabine Baring-Gould

The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.
‐‐ Blaise Pascal