Character Quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Download Open image “Character develops itself in the stream of life.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Character Life
It's hard to know whether certain characters come to life or not, they either come to have their own life or they don't. I've… — Neil Jordan Copy Share Image
I've come to realize that real growth of character takes place in the valleys of life. — Dave Dravecky Copy Share Image
People do not spring forth out of the blue, fully formed – they become themselves slowly, day by day, starting from babyhood. They are… — Lois Duncan Copy Share Image
A character does seem to have a life of its own, but I have what I'd describe as a very fluid relationship with them… — Phoebe Gloeckner Copy Share Image
Character is developed one positive action at a time. Therefore nothing is actually trivial in our lives. To grow in character development, pay attention… — Zelig Pliskin Copy Share Image
In fiction the story lives the more everyone comes to life, the more each character seems to exist in his or her own right. — Brian Boyd Copy Share Image
“Does character develop over time? In novels, of course it does:otherwise there wouldn't be much of a story. But in life? I sometimes wonder.… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
Character building begins in our infancy and continues until death. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
When a character is born, he acquires at once such an independence, even of his own author, that he can be imagined by everybody… — Luigi Pirandello Copy Share Image
Life takes its own turns, makes its own demands, writes its own story, and along the way, we start to realize we are not… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Character forms a life regardless of how obscurely that life is lived and how little light falls on it from the stars. — James Hillman Copy Share Image
Our life evokes our character and you find out more about yourself as you go on. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I never believed in trying to do anything. Whatever I set out to do I found I had already accomplished. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The connoisseur of art must be able to appreciate what is simply beautiful, but the common run of people is satisfied with ornament — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Copy Share Image
Let us not dream that reason can ever be popular. Passions, emotions, may be made popular; but reason remains ever the property of an… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I'm often moved by the circumstances around some of my characters, but I don't think I've actually cried watching myself. — Kate Winslet Copy Share Image
When you're on a daytime drama you get one page, you better damn well know your character. You better know what she would do… — David Hudgins Copy Share Image
It can sometimes make people fold into themselves and kind of run away, but I think in this case these characters are being forced… — Emily Deschanel Copy Share Image
If you are well-mannered towards those whose views are similar to yours, you may be said to exhibit a fairly good character. But, if… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Democracy is based on the conviction that man has the moral and intellectual capacity, as well as the inalienable right, to govern himself with… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
In the fight between biology and morality, biology has commonly won in the end. — Semir Zeki Copy Share Image
Your looks don't make you pretty, it's the person inside who makes you pretty! — Aaron Chan Copy Share Image
I'm not a huge social media kind of guy, so I don't really know, I don't really ever get... at least in real life,… — Freddie Stroma Copy Share Image
If you stood me in a costume next to a computer graphic of the same-looking character, I think there would be a difference. And… — Warwick Davis Copy Share Image