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Personality Quotes


"The Odyssey is the story of someone who, in the course of diverse experiences, acquires a personality or affirms and recovers his personality."


"I'm starting to think that my level of intrigue outweighs my fear of controversy."


"I think it has sullied his presidency. As brilliant a politician as Bill Clinton is, as magnetic a personality as he can be, there is one little screw loose somewhere."


"Only he, who penetrates into the depth of the game, can express his personality in it."


"Theatre demands different muscles and different aspects of one's personality."


"I don't fancy colors of the face, I'm always attracted to colors of the brain."


"I'm very staid compared to my students, actually."


"When a high-profile personality lives like I do, everybody thinks that person is fated to die young."


"You get a sense of how the show works and then let your personality take over."


"For the sound we produce, everybody is equally important. Each of us has a very different personality and that is what keeps Bush alive."


"She's all brute force and '90s clichés."


"Something about her eyes or voice has always suggested the hint of a free spirit, trapped in a Peck and Peck cage, dreaming of making rude noises at public gatherings of Republicans."


"Idiosyncrasy and vicissitude had combined to stamp Sergeant Troy as an exceptional being."


"It's that I have a good personality and am a good tennis player."


"If I was working hard, she bled into my personality. I became more cynical."


"We get criticized for showing no personality, then we get penalized when we do."


"All I need is my brains, my eyes and my personality, for better or for worse."


"I'm not really a political satirist. I don't kid myself. I'm more interested in doing the mannerisms and the personality."


"I have a cheat-sheet for each one of my characters about their personality, the way they look, etc. So there is no possible way that I could have writer's block."


"Class Act.She's a first class act, graced with refinement and tact. But hold on! She has a beastly witty mind, a feral appetite for adventure, and a savage need for primal love! She's beautifully twisted, so before you take the plunge be sure you can swim deep."


"As a lover or a dipsomaniac, I've no doubt of your being a most fascinating specimen. But as a combiner of forms, you must honestly admit it, you're a bore."


"There are differing opinions as to whether charisma and charm are innate qualities which we are born with or learned personality styles. I believe it is a combination of both. Young children demonstrate a propensity for this enthusiasm. However, smart adults realize that they can get further in life when they develop these special traits."


"Under so much pressure and the situation that I was in, that was the personality that came across with me."


"Excitement is a crossroad which runs in all directions. No man lacks personality, he just never connected with you at the intersection."


"Personality is immediately apparent, from birth, and I don't think it really changes."


"On the robot kit, I can choose very boring parts or I can choose exciting and interesting parts. That is a reflection of my personality and the kinds of things I am interested in."


"For I never care to do a thing in a quiet way, it's got to be theatrical or I don't take any interest in it."


"I am what is mine. Personality is the original personal property."


"Muhammad Ali is a combination of personality and athlete who is probably better known around the world than any other. He became a great hero."


"As a teacher, as a propagandist, Mr. Shaw is no good at all, even in his own generation. But as a personality, he is immortal."


"She was not a girl of ice and glass at all, but a girl of sunshine and stardust."


"Like the zodiac sign?' Percy asked. 'I'm a Leo.''No, stupid,' Leo said, 'I'm a Leo. You're a Percy."


"One thing a man must have: either a naturally light disposition or a disposition lightened by art and knowledge."


"When you're not blond and thin, you come up with a personality real quick."


"My pockets had always puzzled Weena, but at the last she had concluded that they were an eccentric kind of vase for floral decoration."


"We might respect a serious person with an austere and rigid personality, but we adore merry, kindhearted, and artistic people."


"Being bigheaded can be as irritating and as dangerous as being small-minded."


"Since we are all unique and individual, being cognizant of different personality styles will help you better recognize where others are coming from to minimize barriers, build trust, and catapult your newfound communication skills into meaningful connections. The savvy socializer knows this all."


"I'm persnickety," I confessed. "Not, incidentally, to the point of being snarly. But still. Delightful and persnickety are not a common blend." "Do you want to know why I never married?" "The question wasn't at the top of my list," I admitted. The old woman made me meet her eye. "Listen to me; I never married because I was easily bored. It's an awful, self-defeating trait to have. It is much better to be too easily interested."


"How can a man's candour be seen in all its lustre unless he has a few failings to talk of? But he had an agreeable confidence that his faults were all of a generous kind-impetuous, arm-blooded, leonine; never crawling, crafty, reptilian."


"Humanism is not a single character. It is a magnificent blend of various emotional and behavioral traits that are unique to the human mind."


"He sniggered.He didn't like to think of himself as the sort of person who giggled or sniggered, but he had to admit that he had been giggling and sniggering almost continuously for well over half an hour now."



"Adrian was easily distractible by wacky topics and shiny objects."


"I swear to you, by my own stunning good looks and towering ego, that I am not lying to you."


"You're playing the creepy vibe a little hard, I said. "Might as well go for broke, put on a black top hat and pipe in some organ music."


"Hardly anybody ever writes anything nice about introverts. Extroverts rule. This is rather odd when you realise that about nineteen writers out of twenty are introverts. We are been taught to be ashamed of not being 'outgoing'. But a writer's job is ingoing."


"Only a mediocre person is always at his best."
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