The morality of scholarship, as currently practiced, is to encourage everyone to replace difficult pleasures by pleasures universally accessible precisely because they… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
Greatness is not found in possessions, power, position, or prestige. It is discovered in goodness, humility, service, and character. — William Arthur Ward Copy Share Image
I know when I go and see a writer, the first thing I think to myself is, 'Are they the character in… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
Their are things that can't buy like Love, morals, respect, trust, common sense, patient,manners, character and integrity. you can have all of… — Mitch Alapan Copy Share Image
There was a best-selling book in the late '60s and '70s called 'The Adventurers' by Harold Robbins. The lead character's name was… — Dax Shepard Copy Share Image
It would need someone very remarkable to recover your name, Stephen, someone of rare perspicacity, with extraordinary talents and incomparable nobility of… — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
I think I learned discipline on 'Jane Eyre.' Charlotte Bronte's dialogue, the intellectual duel between Rochester and Jane Eyre's character, is so… — Cary Fukunaga Copy Share Image
While I was doing the first season of 'Girl In The City,' a lot of people remembered me through my character name.… — Mithila Palkar Copy Share Image
Deeply affecting and compulsively readable, The Fifty-First State displays Lisa Borders' emotional acuity, first-rate skills as a storyteller, and profound empathy not… — Christopher Castellani Copy Share Image
Dogs have always provided a special kind of love and companionship that I experience only some of the time with humans. They… — Linda Gray Copy Share Image
Boswell, when he speaks of his Life of Johnson, calls it my magnum opus, but it may more properly be called his… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
On the last drafts, I focus on the words themselves, including the rub of vowels and consonants, stressed and unstressed syllables. Yet… — Ron Rash Copy Share Image
There's this sense of being strange, which is at the heart of every creative person. Every writer, every actor, every director knows… — Anthony Minghella Copy Share Image
“What good does it do me, after all, if an ever-watchful authority keeps an eye out to ensure that my pleasures will… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
I don't think the challenge is asking an audience to like a character; it's inviting them to try and understand them... then… — Phoebe Waller-Bridge Copy Share Image
It is commonly the personal character of a writer which gives him his public significance. It is not imparted by his genius.… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
It has been my honor to support and work with President Barack Obama, a man who has brought courage and character to… — Harry Reid Copy Share Image
If I was doing standup I would worry that someone would think I was being preachy, whereas, with a character, it always… — Lolly Adefope Copy Share Image
Don't walk through life just playing football. Don't walk through life just being an athlete. Athletics will fade. Character and integrity and… — Ray Lewis Copy Share Image
As all curves have reference to their centres or foci, so all beauty of character has reference to the soul, and is… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If the Savior has not sanctified you, renewed you, given you a hatred of sin and a love of holiness, He has… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Both tolerance and respect are empty virtues until we actually understand whatever it is we are supposed to be tolerating or respecting. — Stephen Prothero Copy Share Image
Well, while I didn't have the more extreme experiences of some of my characters, I didn't exactly come from the most normal… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
“The moral flabbiness born of the exclusive worship of the bitch-goddess SUCCESS. That - with the squalid cash interpretation put on the… — William James Copy Share Image
“Oh where is the noble face of modesty, or the strength of virtue, now that blasphemy is in power and men have… — Euripides Copy Share Image
We did so much work developing the character of Kratos, why would we throw all that out? We're sort of treating the… — Cory Barlog Copy Share Image
You have a good side and bad side, real side. Then I put that on in the ring. My character, my personality… — Shinsuke Nakamura Copy Share Image
Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character; it requires moral rather than athletic or intellectual effort, and… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
With Superman, there are certain limitations for an actor. You can't go past certain boundaries because then you cease to be what… — Henry Cavill Copy Share Image
There are fewer and fewer Jews in Ireland, but we still have one of the most famous Jewish characters in literary history,… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
The German people in its whole character is not warlike, but rather soldierly, that is, while they do not want war, they… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
I'm not sure that I have a favorite either on-screen or in the books! Whenever I'm writing, I'm always really excited to… — Sara Shepard Copy Share Image
The other main difference between film and television is that you have the opportunity to flush out a character, over a longer… — Elijah Wood Copy Share Image
Beautiful has nothing to do with looks. It has everything to do with how you are as a person and how you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think anything that opens my mind and triggers my imagination I'm reading. I like to read science fiction and imagine the… — Nicolas Cage Copy Share Image
I did one of the 'Amazing Stories.' That was the first time I got to play a character who was a dumb… — Cindy Morgan Copy Share Image
Obviously, for me, that person has got to have a beauty to them - and it's not always physical beauty. It's important… — Christopher Bailey Copy Share Image
The Sound of Building Coffins is a soulful work from a writer of the weird. Maistros does more than make you feel… — Paul G. Tremblay Copy Share Image
Character is an essential tendency. It can be covered up, it can be messed with, it can be screwed around with, but… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
I do love that witches haven't really been explored that much. Usually, witches are the little side character... a bad female character… — Madchen Amick Copy Share Image
