he is the personification of sensible silence.

Few things are more important at this time in history than for religious people to listen to the New Atheists as if these unbelievers…

— Michael Dowd

Dame Edna is that rarest sighting in our time of the absolute comic, an inspired personification of caprice whose comedy answered the primal call…

— John Lahr

Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977) is probably the most influential film of my generation. It's the personification of good and…

— J. J. Abrams

The apparent multiplication of gods is bewildering at the first glance, but you soon discover that they are the same GOD. There is always…

— George Bernard Shaw

It often occurs that pride and selfishness are muddled with strength and independence. They are neither equal nor similar; in fact, they are polar…

— Criss Jami

“By December an elastic skin of ice reached out hundreds of miles into the sea, rolling with every wave.”

— Will Chancellor

I saw sensuality as sacred, indeed the only sacredness, I saw woman and her beauty as divine since her calling is the most important…

— Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

To later Romans Ennius was the personification of the spirit of early Rome; by them he was called "The Father of Roman Poetry." We…

— Quintus Ennius

“It is my conviction that, with the spread of true scientific culture, whatever may be the medium, historical, philological, philosophical, or physical, through which…

— Thomas Henry Huxley

“Your Mom's Car. Think about that. Try to wrap your brain around the supernatural and spiritual implications that the name bears down you. Your…

— Dan Chaon

In Stalin each [Soviet bureaucrat] easily finds himself. But Stalin also finds in each one a small part of his own spirit. Stalin is…

— Leon Trotsky

We had better dispense with the personification of evil, because it leads, all too easily, to the most dangerous kind of war: religious war.

— Konrad Lorenz

It would be curious to discover who it is to whom one writes in a diary. Possibly to some mysterious personification of one's own…

— Beatrice Webb

Monarchs not only fashion their age, but are fashioned by it, so that they can become a sort of personification of the age. If…

— Eva Figes

We still like to make up stories, just as our ancestors did, which use personification to explain the great forces of our existence. Such…

— John Frederick Nims