Character Quote by Lawrence Millman Download Open image “Generous in spirit, richly poetic, and packed with memorable characters.” — Lawrence Millman ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Character Generous Kindness Memorable Memorable characters Poetic Religion Spirit
Noble characters and pure affections and happy scenes are very comforting things. They're a refuge from life's disillusionments. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
The recipe for any character is always very interesting, as far as what doses of certain qualities you want. — Joel Edgerton Copy Share Image
Love, supreme power of the heart, mysterious enthusiasm that encloses in itself all poetry, all heroism, all religion! — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor and happiness. — John Howe Copy Share Image
Character consists of the moral awareness and strength to know the good, love the good and do the good. — Thomas Lickona Copy Share Image
“A heart full of kindness attracts gentle souls and shimmering joys—moments that flutter like whispers of light into our lives.” — Bhuwan Thapaliya Copy Share Image
A great novelist must open the reader's heart, allow the reader to remember the vastness and glory -- and shame and shabbiness -- of… — Carolyn See Copy Share Image
What I need, as a reader, is a character with a heart and a voice and a pulse. I need a character so vivid… — Becky Albertalli Copy Share Image
The hunger and thirst for knowledge, the keen delight in the chase, the good humored willingness to admit that the scent was false, the eager desire to get on with the work, the cheerful resolution to go back and begin again, the broad good sense, the unaffected modesty, the imperturbable temper, the gratitude for any little help that was given… — Frederic William Maitland Copy Share
For me, what is important is to bring the inner life of these characters - their strengths, contradictions, anguish and triumph - alive. — Sarita Choudhury Copy Share Image
“...there were only fifteen thousand polar bears in the world, and five billion of me. To let one of them devour my all-too-common flesh… — Lawrence Millman Copy Share Image
“A few years later, in Inukjuak, I learned that SFU is the Inuit texting acronym for "snowmobile fucked up," and that POOS is the… — Lawrence Millman Copy Share Image
After a day on Mykines, I changed my mind about life not going on. A sort of life was going on, beating with a reasonalbe version of a pulse, but that life consisted for the most part of travelers like myself. There were maybe a dozen of us - one third of the island's population. Our tribe could only increase… — Lawrence Millman Copy Share
“Once when I looked up, I happened to see a sea eagle poised on magisterial wings above the knurled summit of the mountain behind… — Lawrence Millman Copy Share Image
“Another day I walked out of town to do a bit of climbing in the mountains behind the airport. I scrambled up and down… — Lawrence Millman Copy Share Image
“The last wendigo died in 1962, or so the story goes. Reputedly, he (it?) stood in front of the train to Churchill, Manitoba, believing… — Lawrence Millman Copy Share Image
Travel is the realm of the impossible adventures, the quick fix, the ship passing in the night. It entitles you to meet interesting people,… — Lawrence Millman 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 to face issues and emotions, feelings, that they have. So it kind of forces them to face it head on, which I think is a really interesting dynamic. And I think it should be interesting and… — Emily Deschanel Copy Share
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
