Temperament is the primary requisite for the critic - a temperament exquisitely susceptible to beauty, and to the various impressions that beauty… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The kernel, the soul let us go further and say the substance, the bulk, the actual and valuable material of all… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The Louvre is the book in which we learn to read. We must not, however, be satisfied with retaining the beautiful formulas… — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
Nations do not think, they only feel. They get their feelings at second hand through their temperaments, not their brains. A nation… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I was an only child. And it's very much my temperament. I remember playing with a piece of string in my room… — Leigh Newman Copy Share Image
Children are just different from one another, especially in temperament. Some are shy, others bold; some active, others quiet; some confident, others… — Sandra Scarr Copy Share Image
If health and a fair day smile upon me, I am a very good fellow; if a corn trouble my toe, I… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
It's Not About How People Annoys You. It's About How You Control Your Emotions... — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
When you're writing plays, it's possible to believe you don't have any real world skill. When you're adapting, it is really all… — Richard Greenberg Copy Share Image
A temperament capable of receiving, through an imaginative medium, and under imaginative conditions, new and beautiful impressions, is the only temperament that… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I think the diva is kind of a cliche. My definition of a diva is somebody whose talent does not match what… — Glenn Close Copy Share Image
The poetic temperament is the worst for golf. It dreams of brilliant drives, iron shots laid dead, and long putts holed, while… — Charles Walter Simpson Copy Share Image
The idea is that one's temperament improves with age; that you learn to deal better with people and become more benevolent and… — Robert Duvall Copy Share Image
... he felt himself to be one of them, who can live neither in the world nor out of it. They are… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
You know, so I was a weird eccentric kid but I did believe in the power of the word and of the… — Thomas Keneally Copy Share Image
Dorothy is th cool type of temperament who quite frequently thinks that two is a crowd. — Anita Loos Copy Share Image
By my makeup and temperament I wasn't really prey to physical desires. Everything happened in my head. — Anne Desclos Copy Share Image
Using quotations was at first quite spontaneous for me, but then this use became strengthened through reflection. But originally this practice came… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
An excessive amount of my time is taken with political involvement. It's unavoidable; that's my temperament. — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
It was never my goal to capitalize on punk. I could never make it as a commercial artist. I didn't back then… — Raymond Pettibon Copy Share Image
