There's nothing interesting about seeing our characters for an hour and a half do some flashy flying in the sky and beating… — Finn Jones Copy Share Image
Literary lineage is part of your autobiography. The authors are the literary base, the image base, the character base that you bring… — David Biespiel Copy Share Image
Every fanatic or enemy of virtue is not at liberty to misrepresent the greatest geniuses and most heroic defenders of all that… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
You have to sort of see the way that the character behaves, and what the character says and does, and claim it… — Richard Roxburgh Copy Share Image
If happiness, then, is activity expressing virtue, it is reasonable for it to express the supreme virtue, which will be the virtueof… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The measure of human character is our reaction to dark times. No one can sidestep darkness. It is the throne upon which… — David Wolpe Copy Share Image
When I write characters, I need to hear their voice. As soon as I get them speaking, and I feel how they… — Dana Spiotta Copy Share Image
Judge not of actions by their mere effect; Dive to the center, and the cause detect. Great deeds from meanest springs may… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Ultimately, any character you write - no matter how fantastic or alien - is an extension of yourself. When our characters reflect… — J. M. DeMatteis Copy Share Image
Visually through my work, over and over, I'm trying to create characters that are - to some people they may be monstrous,… — Chris Mars Copy Share Image
Although I'm very lazy when it comes to writing, I'm not that lazy when it comes to thinking. I like to develop… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
We really have a close friendship with Christian Petzold, which means we can be more frank and open towards each other, always… — Nina Hoss Copy Share Image
“She locked herself in her room. She needed time to get used to her maimed consciousness, her poor lopped life, before she… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“As our relationships in marriages, families, and friendship teach us, it takes relationships to provide the friction that wears down our rough… — Terryl and Fiona Givens Copy Share Image
The legislator commands the future; to be feeble will avail him nothing: it is for him to will what is good and… — Louis Antoine de Saint-Just Copy Share Image
You know, when you're in your twenties you use a great deal of symbolism. You somehow think that a character standing beneath… — Paul Schrader Copy Share Image
I actually think the reason I am interested in certain parts is because I was such a dweeb in high school. When… — Sigourney Weaver Copy Share Image
I always tell my writing students that every good piece of writing begins with both a mystery and a love story. And… — Silas House Copy Share Image
There are lots of theories that the simpler a comic character is drawn the more relatable they become. People can imprint themselves… — Charles Forsman Copy Share Image
Among human beings, the subjection of women is much more complete at a certain level of civilization than it is among savages.… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I've always had a compassion for characters in novels - the sense that they are, whatever they might think, living in a… — John Crowley Copy Share Image
The real challenge of acting for me, I suppose, is just getting to know a character very, very well and just applying… — Daniel Radcliffe Copy Share Image
Ambition is the subtlest beast of the intellectual and moral field. It is wonderfully adroit in concealing itself from its owner. — John Adams Copy Share Image
Anyone I'm with has to give me freedom. I like to be with someone who has character and style and someone who… — Leonardo DiCaprio Copy Share Image
The seven sacred teachings: love, respect, courage, honesty, wisdom, humility, truth. These are the seven virtues that lead to a full and… — Perry Bellegarde Copy Share Image
When you are writing a character, what the character says is obviously crucial. But what the character doesn't say is absolutely as… — Frederick Busch Copy Share Image
I've grown up well, partly because there weren't great girls' literature - Nancy Drew, maybe - but there weren't things. So there… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
“In the ancient world, this was understood by the Christians, our only (if very imperfect) predecessors: Humility is a virtue, pride a… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
Moral justification is a powerful disengagement mechanism. Destructive conduct is made personally and socially acceptable by portraying it in the service of… — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
I have always been drawn to characters, and this was true for my feature-writing career as well, where there is a tension… — Matt Nix Copy Share Image
Concentrate your narrative energy on the point of change. This is especially important for historical fiction. When your character is new to… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
I have only a couple of Super 6s now, but I do have quite a few black-face Fenders around the studio. They… — Derek Trucks Copy Share Image
O ye! who teach the ingenious youth of nations, Holland, France, England, Germany or Spain, I pray ye flog them upon all… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Water, that wonderful, flowing medium, the luck of the planet - which would serve humankind in so many ways, and which would… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
Who we are and how our life is today are mostly the reflection of the choices we've made, to be a better… — Blaze Olermiday Copy Share Image
“For some people a thing may be right, and for others it may be wrong. There is no greater truth to morality… — Katherine Ewell Copy Share Image
True virtue would never liken its rewards to points on a loyalty card, not because it is its own reward, but because… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
Culture is not just an ornament; it is the expression of a nation's character, and at the same time it is a… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“Penance should be but the means to increase virtue according to the needs of the individual, and according to what the soul… — Catherine of Siena Copy Share Image
It's the trials and tribulations that really test a person, and coming through those difficulties is what shapes a person's character. — Johanna Konta Copy Share Image
