Quotes About Personality

there was something intimidating about Harrison. His face in repose looked to me like it was closer to a scowl than to any other expression. It was immediately clear that he was no people pleaser; this was more of a people unsettler.

I feel like what I look like is government issue, it's pretty much out of my hands. But I invent the stuff I say. That's me.

Screw beauty, it's superficial anyway, and my other attributes matter way more than my appearance.

We are not defined by our species any more than our nationality or our gender. What we do , our choices, that's what defines us.

She is really nice and everything, but totally not made of awesome the way Issie is.

What we do,our choices, that's what defines us.

Tell Me Whom You Love and I'll Tell You Who You Are

Handwriting is autobiography.

Alan Cumming is such an amazing performer and person.

My father used to say, 'Let them see you and not the suit. That should be secondary.'

With this lesson in mind, Mullainathan and Shafir insist that certain characteristics that we attribute to individual personality (lack of motivation, inability to focus) may actually be a problem of limited bandwidth. The problem is scarcity, not the person.

People aren't born good or bad. Maybe they're born with tendencies either way, but its the way you live your life that matters.

They're not hideous," said Tessa. Will blinked at her. "What?" "Gideon and Gabriel," said Tessa. "They're really quite good-looking, not hideous at all." "I spoke," said Will, in sepulchral tones, "of the pitch-black inner depths of their souls." Tessa snorted. "And what color do you suppose the inner depths of your soul are, Will Herondale?" "Mauve," said Will.

Even in half demon hunter clothes, Clary thought, he looked like the kind of boy who'd come over your house to pick you up for a date and be polite to your parents and nice to your pets. Jace on the other hand, looked like the kind of boy who'd come over your house and burn it down just for kicks.

Will has always been the brighter burning star, the one to catch attention — but Jem is a steady flame, unwavering and honest. He could make you happy.

It's the diary that makes the man.

His bark is worse than his bite.

The song seraphically freeOf taint of personality.

There are kinds of people and kinds of work. There are people who file and people who pile. There are doers and dreamers.

It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one's own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane.

The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time.

Robert was the true steel. Stannis is pure iron, black and hard and strong, yes, but brittle, the way iron gets. He'll break before he bends. And Renly, that one, he's copper, bright and shiny, pretty to look at but not worth all that much at the end of the day.

Ser Cleos looked like a weasel, fought like a goose, and had the courage of an especially brave ewe.

Hoooodor," said Hodor, swaying. "Hooooooodor, hoooooodor, hoDOR, hoDOR, hoDOR." Sometimes he liked to do this, just saying his name different ways, over and over and over.