Character Quote by Henry James

What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?

— Henry James

I spend a great deal of time on research, on finding all the available accounts of a scene or incident, finding out all the…

— Hilary Mantel

I still think that we have a hesitance to talk about things racial. And I think we do it at our detriment. We go…

— Eric Holder

“He had slid out of her without incident”

— Deanna Roy

During exposure, interference takes place between the incident rays and those reflected by the mirror, with the formation of interference fringes half a wavelength…

— Gabriel Lippmann

“Life is a chemical incident.”

— Paul Ehrlich

The people who stood out in the Sandy Hook incident, the heroes, were the normal, ordinary people who went to save those children.

— Marcia Gay Harden

I don't know how often I can discuss one incident in my entire life, but I'll continue to do that.

— O. J. Simpson

'Ice Cold' is the eighth in my 'Rizzoli and Isles' thriller series. It was inspired by a true occurrence in the 1960s, now known…

— Tess Gerritsen

An incident that left an impression on me was the 1999 sub-junior national boxing championship held in Calcutta. I had trained extremely hard to…

— Vijender Singh

I gave my heart to the Lord, and I remember the incident vividly. The Lord spoke to me. I know that sounds funny. It…

— Jimmy Swaggart

A novel can be set in motion by an incident, a character, a location, a mood - by anything at all. Sometimes the stimulus…

— Cynthia Ozick

“An insipid voice message or an incongruent emergence from the “other” world may disrupt our whole thinking system. If we are not able to…

— Erik Pevernagie

“I should have been honored to have been part of the best pickpocket incident of the century, but instead I was just mad.”

— Maya Bode

“This is a multifaceted issue that you can't just boil down to one incident”

— a BBC interviewee