Characters Quotes

2913 quotes by 2044 authors

I'm drawn to emotionally damaged characters because there is more to unlock. — Helena Bonham Carter
The more settled I've become, the more problematic my characters have become. There was a period when I wrote sensitive and gentle songs and these… — Nick Cave
It is three and a half hours long, four characters wide and a cesspool deep. — John Jay Chapman
Heart is what drives us and determines our fate. That is what I need for my characters in my books: a passionate heart. I need… — Isabel Allende
There are too many souls of wood not to love those wooden characters who do indeed have a soul. — Jean Cocteau
I like involved projects. I'm driven by the idea of characters and the song-cycle form is similar to a musical. — Tori Amos
The value of liberty was thus enhanced in our estimation by the difficulty of its attainment, and the worth of characters appreciated by the trial… — George Washington
All the characters in my films are fighting these problems, needing freedom, trying to find a way to cut themselves loose, but failing to rid… — Michelangelo Antonioni
As long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst of military glory will ever… — Edward Gibbon
We will win with character, not with characters. — Bob Weltlich
Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at… — Margaret Halsey
On consideration, it is not surprising that Darwin's finches should recognize their own kind primarily by beak characters. The beak is the only prominent specific… — David Lack
In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions and inconsistencies. — L. Sprague de Camp
The characters and events depicted in the damn bible are fictitious. Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental. — James Madison
Your past history and all of your hurts are no longer here in your physical reality. Don't allow them to be here in your mind,… — Wayne Dyer
I've met so many fans of daytime television who've watched the shows with their moms and grandmas and feel like they've known the characters their… — Alison Sweeney
When I create characters, I create a world to inhabit and they begin to feel very real for me. I don't belong in a psych… — Lois Lowry
You put on a face for the public. The face isn't false; it's just another side of you. If it were false, you couldn't last.… — James Garner
Others are to us like the characters in fiction, eternal and incorrigible; the surprises they give us turn out in the end to have been… — Mary McCarthy
When certain persons abuse us, let us ask ourselves what description of characters it is that they admire; we shall often find this a very… — Charles Caleb Colton

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