Temperamental Quotes

37 quotes by 36 authors

Most football players are temperamental. That's 90 percent temper and 10 percent mental. — Doug Plank
Youth means a temperamental predominance of courage over timidity of the appetite, for adventure over the love of ease. This often exists in a man… — Samuel Ullman
Capablanca used to talk calmly and moderately about everything. However, when our conversation turned to the problems of the battle for the world championship, in… — Alexander Koblencs
Nothing is more dangerous in wartime than to live in the temperamental atmosphere of a Gallup Poll, always feeling ones pulse and taking ones temperature.… — Winston Churchill
His [Erwin SchrÃ¶dinger's] private life seemed strange to bourgeois people like ourselves. But all this does not matter. He was a most lovable person, independent,… — Max Born
To succeed in the game of power, you have to master your emotions. But even if you succeed in gaining such self-control, you can never… — Robert Greene
There should be two main objectives in ordinary prose writing: to convey a message and to include in it nothing that will distract the reader's… — Robert Graves
My co-workers expect me to be late and temperamental. — Eva Gabor
Nothing is more dangerous in wartime than to live in the temperamental atmosphere of a Gallup Poll, always feeling one's pulse and taking one's temperature. — Winston Churchill
The moment you say, 'Please, give me a reason for this', then you are being impossible and temperamental. — Montserrat Caballe
If they're not temperamental, I don't want them. It's in the nature of a great artist to be that way. — Sol Hurok
It was an amazing performer. Very temperamental, it spent a lot of time in its trailer. — Tilda Swinton
British girls are as temperamental as Americans. — Ivor Novello
I have a bad reputation for being temperamental. — Ted Kotcheff
The charm, one might say the genius, of memory is that it is choosy, chancy and temperamental; it rejects the edifying cathedral and indelibly photographs… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I'm reading the Gospels at the moment and I can find no evidence of the kind of Christ people seem to have invented and created.… — Franco Zeffirelli
Most films I've worked on have had large casts, but they've been wonderful people. I think the monkey in Pirates of the Caribbean is the… — Geoffrey Rush
I am not temperamental. I just know what I want and if I don't have it, I try to get it. — Paulette Goddard
I would not unduly praise the virtue of restraint. It is often merely temperamental. But it is not always a sign of coldness. It may… — Joseph Conrad
Chief among our gains must be reckoned this possibility of choice, the recognition of many possible ways of life, where other civilizations have recognized only… — Margaret Mead

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