Books Quote by William Godwin

“My own personality, which was molded by the furnace of time and circumstances… strengthened by the touchstone of varied experiences, has changed a bit…

— Balroop Singh

Circumstances made me the theatrical personality I am, which many people believe is also a part of my personal life.

— Bela Lugosi

Early on in my career I had a lot of bad press about my temperament, but I was only a young lad then.

— Wayne Rooney

I grew up with the idealistic notion that writing and literature were noble causes. I had no inkling, no sense of what I would…

— Oscar Hijuelos

Retracing the various episodes of one's life, one is disconcerted to discover that one was not as noble as one thought oneself at the…

— Phyllis Bentley

As a young writer, I was sort of sailing around trying to 'find my voice' - for lack of a better term - and…

— Laura van den Berg

I preached vulnerability in my music, but in my own life I wasn't being vulnerable enough with myself.

— Noah Kahan

To the one, a little natural moderation and quietness of temper may be sufficient to conduct us: but to the other, we can only…

— William Wilberforce

Your literary style reflects your personality.

— Louis Auchincloss

Through an experience that simultaneously involved my sensibility and intelligence, I realized early on that the imaginative life, however morbid it might seem, is…

— Anonymous

“The Complete Work is essentially dramatic, thought it takes different forms - prose passages in this first volume, poems and philosophies in other volumes.…

— Fernando Pessoa

There was a while where every role I was getting offered was extremely noble - like the judge or the kindly nurse.

— John Cho