Characteristic Quotes

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Even one word, or certainly one sentence, should be able to describe the basic characteristic that the scene has, or the character has, or the… — William Shatner
If you're familiar enough with my body of work, my voice is a familiar totem, in a sense. I guess I have something characteristic in… — Todd Rundgren
I do not pose my sitters. I do not deliberate and then concoct... Before painting, when I talk to the person, they unconsciously assume their… — Alice Neel
I wonder if it's possible for people to fall in love with a person one characteristic at a time, or if you fall for the… — Colleen Hoover
Curiosity, which may or may not eventuate in something useful, is probably the most outstanding characteristic of modern thinking ... Institutions of learning should be… — Abraham Flexner
A state too expensive in itself, or by virtue of its dependencies, ultimately falls into decay; its free government is transformed into a tyranny; it… — Simon Bolivar
All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in… — John Kenneth Galbraith
The characteristic of the hour is that the commonplace mind, knowing itself to be commonplace, has the assurance to proclaim the rights of the commonplace… — Jose Ortega y Gasset
There are many qualities that make a great leader. But having strong beliefs, being able to stick with them through popular and unpopular times, is… — Rudy Giuliani
Just as the bird sings or the butterfly soars, because it is his natural characteristic, so the artist works. — Alma Gluck
War had always seemed to me to be a purely human behavior. Accounts of warlike behavior date back to the very first written records of… — Jane Goodall
I have more of a vivid imagination than I have talent. I cook up ideas. It's just a characteristic. — Francis Ford Coppola
It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to be approached without some humor and some bewilderment. — Freeman Dyson
Modernism in other arts brought extreme difficulty. In poetry, the characteristic difficulty imported under the name of modernism was obscurity. But obscurity could just as… — James Fenton
Judge the goodness of a book by the energy of the punches it has given you. I believe the greatest characteristic of genius, is, above… — Gustave Flaubert
I think provincialism is an endemic characteristic with mankind, I think everybody everywhere is provincial, but it is particularly striking with Texans, and we tend… — Molly Ivins
I.Q. deficiency. There are some people who are an order of fries short of a Happy Meal, and what is often a characteristic about every… — Rush Limbaugh
I would like to recapture that freshness of vision which is characteristic of extreme youth when all the world is new to it. — Henri Matisse
Backward is just not a natural direction for Americans to look - historical ignorance remains a national characteristic. — Larry McMurtry
I seem to be thinking rationally again in the style that is characteristic of scientists. However, this is not entirely a matter of joy as… — John Forbes Nash

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