Swans are majestic, beautiful looking creatures. With really ugly temperaments. — Michael Gira Copy Share Image
Every art expression is rooted fundamentally in the personality and temperament of the artist. — Hans Hofmann Copy Share Image
I guess a certain amount of temperament is expected of Chess geniuses — Ronald Gross Copy Share Image
It requires the feminine temperament to repeat the same thing three times with unabated zest. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
It's not that you make up your ideas to justify your temperament but that it's the temperament first. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Investing requires qualities of temperament way more than it requires qualities of intellect. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I'm honored to have the greatest temperament that anybody has, because we know how to win. — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Of course, genes can't pull the levers of our behavior directly. But they affect the wiring and workings of the brain, and… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
I was born out of due time in the sense that by temperament and talent I should have been more suited for… — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
Only individuals with an aberrant temperament can in the long run retain their self-esteem in the face of the disesteem of their… — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
When did the word 'temperament' come into fashion with us? Perhaps it came in when we discovered that artists were human beings. — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Copy Share Image
A lot of composers before me have been on this mission to change the world by getting off equal temperament, and I'm… — Aphex Twin Copy Share Image
The fossil record implies trial and error, an inability to anticipate the future, features inconsistent with an efficient Great Designer (although not… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
All of us confront limits of body, talent, temperament. But that is not all. We are, all of us, also constrained by… — Jeane Kirkpatrick Copy Share Image
Virtue is always too much of a piece and too ignorant of those shades of feeling and of temperament that enable us… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Citizens, regardless of their political inclinations, carry a devout sense of their shared culture and its temperament - and, having contributed to… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
As for me, I am unfortunate enough not to posses a happy temperament like Najdorf, who views every happening in a rosy… — Savielly Tartakower Copy Share Image
What is important, then, is not that the critic should possess a correct abstract definition of beauty for the intellect, but a… — Walter Pater Copy Share Image
But it was not the room’s disorder which was frightening; it was the fact that when one began searching for the key… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
there was no crime in unconscious plagiarism; that I committed it everyday, that he committed it everyday, that every man alive on… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Family is a difficult matter. I must admit I do not know that the state can intervene successfully in a family. It's… — Kenneth Arrow Copy Share Image
But in reality the point of free speech is for the stuff that’s over the line, and strikingly unbalanced. If free speech… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
With subtle and finely-wrought temperaments it is always so. Their strong passions must either bruise or bend. They either slay the man,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
There is nothing that does not have something perfect in it; and it is the happiness of good taste to be able… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
As we grow older, we should learn that these are two quite different things. Character is something you forge for yourself; temperament… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
Parents impose their own limited concepts on their children, often ignoring their temperaments, special needs, and abilities. Your parents and teachers may… — Ari Kiev Copy Share Image
A man of genuine literary genius, since he possesses a temperament whose susceptibilities are of wider area than those of any other,… — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
A love of neighbor manifests itself in the tolerance not only of opinions of others but, what is more important, of the… — Joshua L. Liebman Copy Share Image
Suppose you had inherited the same body and temperament and mind that Al Capone had. Suppose you had had his environment and… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
Former Vermont Governor Howard Dean was all smiles, well smirks, after picking up the endorsement of former Vice President Al Gore at… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
“And while the temperamentally active child will always be an energetic individual, how that looks can change over time. With guidance from… — Mary Sheedy Kurcinka Copy Share Image
“The artistic disposition is little more than an extreme form of sulking.” — Mark Simpson Copy Share Image
I have a strong temperament, but our country needs a strong temperament. — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
I don't have the temperament of a performer, and I certainly couldn't do it every night. — Tom Lehrer Copy Share Image
All creeds and opinions are nothing but the mere result of chance and temperament. — Joseph Henry Copy Share Image
Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth were slaves by birth, freedom fighters by temperament. — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
