Character Quotes · Page 263

...it's easier to hold to your principles 100% of the time than it is to hold to them 98% of the time.

— Clayton Christensen

It's really fun to play someone with no filter but who is also really good at what she does.

— Aidy Bryant

Beautiful fabrics last; synthetics don't. Certain fabrics, such as linen or cotton, develop their own character over time.

— John Rocha

I definitely have character arcs in mind for each character unless I kill them.

— Robert Kirkman

I believe locations should try to be and evoke the characters in a movie.

— Brad Furman

I think some people still don't really know what ethical fashion is.

— Amanda Hearst

I like portraying women of character in my books. Women who exhibit loyalty and courage.

— Sudha Murty

It's always interesting to play people different from yourself, it would be boring for me to play myself.

— Sydney Pollack

Get out of the office. Roam the frontline. Be observant. Hold your people accountable for creating the new narrative, a new story,…

— Michael J. Silverstein

The funny thing is that I feel close to all my characters. Deep, deep inside them all. I can't describe how deeply…

— Paul Auster

My partner of 45 years is Australian, and a big part of her character is that marvellous quality of irony which Aussies…

— Miriam Margolyes

The Good of man is the active exercise of his soul's faculties in conformity with excellence or virtue, or if there be…

— Aristotle

There's jerks, and there's villains. Villains, I think, are very aware of who they are and what they're doing and their effect…

— Ron Livingston

The ethical debates are like stones in a stream. The water runs around them. You haven't seen any biological technologies held up…

— Ray Kurzweil

All thoughtful persons perceive that the ideas of the morality of sexual relations upheld by the religions and laws of the Western…

— Ellen Key

Apart from differentiating our spaces with design, we also look for buildings that have distinctive character. We make sure every seat is…

— Miguel McKelvey

Before the Conquest all art was of the people, and popular art has never ceased to exist in Mexico. The art called…

— Manuel Alvarez Bravo

Be sure the safest rule is that we should not dare to live in any scene in which we dare not die.…

— Lewis Carroll

“Inquisitor Lorsen's thin lip curled. "There is truly nothing in you of what separates man from animal, is there? You are bereft…

— Joe Abercrombie

If you're a cartoon character or most TV characters, sure, you'll fight, because the punches are juicy-sounding and they don't leave marks.…

— Louis C. K

“The viewpoint character in each story is usually someone trapped in a living nightmare, but this doesn't guarantee that we and the…

— Francis M. Nevins

But I always need to identify with a character to write about him or her - and by 'identify,' I mean see…

— Jennifer Egan

A close friend of mine described me as a radical pragmatist. I embrace this no-nonsense distinction wholeheartedly. It is a character trait…

— Kerry James Marshall

Socialist thought owes its appeal to the young largely to its visionary character; the very courage to indulge in Utopian thought is…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

It is not about where you are but in what direction you're moving. God is into character, not credentials.

— Howard G. Hendricks

I've been in many bands and every time I try to be a character that's not me it has failed miserably.

— MO

An appearance of delicacy is inseparable from sweetness and gentleness of character.

— Lydia Sigourney

I've played a lot of villains, and I always feel slightly upset when people say, 'You were so bad!'

— Tony Goldwyn

James Patterson has a way with female characters. He understands women in a way that a lot of male writers don't.

— Tracy Pollan

I'm always playing these mendacious characters who end up hoisting themselves by their own petard.

— Maxwell Caulfield

I write a book of poems and then the characters won't go away so I write a play from that.

— Grace Cavalieri

It never occurred to me to write anything that didn't include gay characters in it.

— Christopher Rice

“Augustine wrote that humility is the source of all virtue, and pride the root of all evil.”

— Mel Starr

It's really exciting to get to be the main character of something.

— Noah Schnapp

Christianity stamped its character on jurisprudence; for empire has ever a connection with the priesthood.

— Baron de Montesquieu

Thought, true labor of any kind, highest virtue itself, is it not the daughter of Pain?

— Thomas Carlyle

I get very invested in characters; it's the only way I find that I can write a book and really make it…

— Gail Simone

It is to be steadily inculcated, that virtue is the highest proof of understanding, and the only solid basis of greatness.

— Samuel Johnson

“On the left side of a strong woman, stands a strong man; he is strengthened by her character.”

— Ellen J. Barrier

At the end of the day, if there are truly ethical considerations, those have to override scientific considerations.

— David Sainsbury, Baron Sainsbury of Turville