Character Quotes

9624 Character quotes by 4950 unique authors

I was fascinated by a compelling character embroiled in a controversial topic that told the story from a different point of view. — Bjorn Borg
Homer's whole language, the language in which he lived, the language that he breathed, because he never saw it, or certainly those who formed his… — Robert Fitzgerald
Failing to support children one has fathered is wrong. We must be unequivocal about this. It doesnt help matters when prime-time TV has Murphy Brown,… — Dan Quayle
IFÂ YOU PRETEND THE CHARACTERS CANT SPEAK, AND WRITEÂ AÂ SILENT MOVIE, YOU WILLÂ BEÂ WRITING GREAT DRAMA. — David Mamet
The campaign of character assassination waged [against President Clinton] by the right was a singular, unprecedented effort. Nothing like it exists on the left. What… — David Brock
A leader - whether in the home, church, business, community, or government - has authority due to her role, but her positional power will not… — Dan B. Allender
The characters have their own lives and their own logic, and you have to act accordingly. — Isaac Bashevis Singer
Sanctification is not a work of nature, but a work of grace. It is a transformation of character effected not by moral influences, but supernaturally… — Charles Hodge
Every reader knows about the feeling that characters in books seem more real than real people. — Cornelia Funke
And the nice thing about writing a novel is you take your time, you sit with the character sometimes nine years, you look very deeply… — Sandra Cisneros
Character is the plot in many ways — Junot Diaz
All we have is the story we tell. Everything we do, every decision we make, our strength, weakness, motivation, history, and character-what we believe-none of… — Jess Walter
When a character is born, he acquires at once such an independence, even of his own author, that he can be imagined by everybody even… — Luigi Pirandello
Any one who believes that any great enterprise of an industrial character can be started without labor must have little experience of life. — William Graham Sumner
The type and formula of most schemes of philanthropy or humanitarianism is this: A and B put their heads together to decide what C shall… — William Graham Sumner
But a man's character is his fate... and in the end there isn't any way to disguise the nature of the knocks by acoustical work… — Saul Bellow
Cus was my father but he was more than a father. You can have a father and what does it mean?—it doesn't really mean anything.… — Mike Tyson
Before us lie two paths - honesty and dishonesty. The shortsighted embark on the dishonest path; the wise on the honest. For the wise know… — Napoleon Hill
People of poor character tend to blame their choices on circumstances. Ethical people make good choices regardless of circumstances. If they make enough good choices,… — John C. Maxwell
Right up till the 1980s, SF envisioned giant mainframe computers that ran everything remotely, that ingested huge amounts of information and regurgitated it in startling… — Walter Jon Williams
When you read a book, the neurons in your brain fire overtime, deciding what the characters are wearing, how they're standing, and what it feels… — Meg Rosoff
The best way to reveal a character is to get them to open their mouths. — Roddy Doyle
I tend to plan as I write. And I want to leave myself open and the character open to keep on going until it seems… — Roddy Doyle
I guess what I like in my movies is where you see a character change by maybe two degrees as opposed to the traditional movie… — Paul Thomas Anderson
I hadn't done just a straight-out comedy in a long time, just letting an ensemble do really good character acting, having them carry the movie… — Brian De Palma

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