Losing builds character. You know who said that? A loser! Guy who got his ass stomped every day, basketball, football, baseball, lose,… — Christopher Titus Copy Share Image
A rake is a composition of all the lowest, most ignoble, degrading, and shameful vices; they all conspire to disgrace his character,… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Truth Is: Don't let anyone powersteering dictate your character nor your future, because all men are created equal, the only difference is… — Larry Cowell Copy Share Image
“When we are Enlightened, or when Universal Spirit awakens within us, we open the inexhaustible store of virtues and excellencies, and can… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
The effect of sincerity is to give one's work the character of a protest. The painter, being concerned only with conveying his… — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
I do think that the attitude of the show is about tolerance. Everybody is different, and the show embraces that. The character… — Stephen Hillenburg Copy Share Image
I fancy it must be the quantity of animal food eaten by the English which renders their character insusceptible to civilization. I… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
What interests me so much about the characters of the Bible is that they make mistakes but God uses them anyway, in… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
Characters take on life sometimes by luck, but I suspect it is when you can write more entirely out of yourself, inside… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
If it really was Queen Elizabeth who demanded to see Falstaff in a comedy, then she showed herself a very perceptive critic.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As a woman, she [Penelope Cruz] obviously has changed as she has become an adult. But, as an actress, I actually might… — Pedro Almodovar Copy Share Image
If you're writing fiction, you're dealing with characters who, themselves, will have heartfelt sentiments but who, themselves, live in this culture right… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“The terrible error in the course of human civilization is undoubtedly the defective judgment that allowed religious authorities usurp the foundation of… — Adebowale Babatunde Ojowuro Copy Share Image
I'm not playing a character. What I'm doing though is taking the worst, most shameful, peculiar, or troubling aspects of my personality.… — Simon Amstell Copy Share Image
To me sympathy for a character has little to do with how morally upstanding or wicked they are. All that really matters… — James Lasdun Copy Share Image
Death and resurrection are what the story is about and had we but eyes to see it, this has been hinted on… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Like the character I played in Jekyll, we all have different masks we put on for different occasions. As much as we… — James Nesbitt Copy Share Image
The thing about 'Batman Begins' is that he's a character that people thought they knew a lot about, and yet you're able… — David S. Goyer Copy Share Image
Bear in mind that brains and learning, like muscle and physical skill, are articles of commerce. They are bought and sold. You… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
“When leaders are worthy of respect, the people are willing to work for them. When their virtue is worthy of admiration, their… — Huananzi Copy Share Image
Though every film teaches me at least three new things, I don't subscribe to doing homework about a character's backstory unless it's… — Ranvir Shorey Copy Share Image
Once you have a central character who announces in the first five minutes of the show that he feels whooped by life… — Malcolm Gets Copy Share Image
Woody [Allen] is a fascinating character to be around. You don't really know what he's going to want. You're on your toes,… — George Hamilton Copy Share Image
I think the beauty of the writing of 'Game of Thrones' is not that the characters are fearless; it's how they overcome… — Natalie Dormer Copy Share Image
What I'd like to see developing is an American radicalism, libertarian in character, which relies, however weak, faint, and even mythic these… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
Disbelief in futurity loosens in a great measure the ties of morality, and may be for that reason pernicious to the peace… — David Hume Copy Share Image
I've thought a lot about the power of empathy. In my work, it's the current that connects me and my actual pulse… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
Often the wicked prosper, while the righteous starve; yet I would never exchange my state for theirs, my virtue for their gold.… — Solon Copy Share Image
The comics I read as a kid were much more influenced by TV and movies. Encountering superheroes as an adult without that… — Garth Ennis Copy Share Image
In the United States, if a political character attacks a sect, this may not prevent even the partisans of that very sect,… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
“This reconciliation with Hitler reveals the profound moral perversity of a world that rests essentially on the nonexistence of return, for in… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Artists who are relevant today won't be tomorrow unless someone does the right thing by their character and preserves it in the… — Usher Copy Share Image
You can't really do a big character in an action film; you're already suspending your disbelief in the action, then to suspend… — Adam McKay Copy Share Image
And a lesson in this movie is dig beneath the surface. And so with my words, with my character, I purposely created… — Shemar Moore Copy Share Image
Others may have more ability than you, they may be larger, faster, quicker, better jumpers ... but no one should be your… — John Wooden Copy Share Image
About Superman and Batman: the former is how America views itself, the latter, darker character is how the rest of the world… — Michael Caine Copy Share Image
Weirdly enough, I don't like to pretend. I try to use things in me, and translate them into the situation and the… — Noomi Rapace Copy Share Image
I loved character actresses like Julie Walters and Alison Steadman, films like 'Nuts in May' and 'Educating Rita.' And I never get… — Ruth Jones Copy Share Image
I think the qualities I look for in a girl I'd like to be my girlfriend would be the way Lindsay's character… — Jonathan Bennett Copy Share Image
My characters are never heroic. They are mostly lost and trying to find the right door to open and they end up… — Gaspar Noe Copy Share Image