Quotes About Personality

Nixon probably was a nice guy.

Kennedy was a lot of fun, always. He had something going on. But not Nixon.

As the father of eight children, I'm quite convinced that each individual arrives here with their own unique personality. We are intended here from an invisible held of infinite potentiality. That which has no form, has no boundaries - it's the I that's in the ever-changing body.

Taking care of myself is central to my personality. I'm pathologically independent. There's no doubt that's one reason I never had children.

I as an individual can always take a joke on me, big time, there's no doubt on that.

Like, action to me is no fun if it's not built around character.

George Clooney is actually a huge prankster. That's sort of his jam. I had no idea.

One of my favorite movies is Bette Davis in 'All About Eve,' and it is shocking there was no pressure on her to be likable.

I have no problem joking about who I am.

In spite of the direction his medical practice had taken in later years, he'd always remained less interested in appearance than those things a person couldn't see: kindness and integrity, humor and sensibility.

She laughed, and I noted how different she was from the first night I'd met her. It was almost as though her uniform had the ability to transform her personality. But then I realized that the same was true about me. In a lab coat or scrubs, I was one person; dressed like a yachtsman, I was someone different. (p. 97, Trevor Benson)

It's not what you like but what you are like that's important.

He has the personality of a child prodigy, but no discernable talent.

A while back, when Dick and Barry and I agreed that what really matters is what you like, not what you are like, Barry proposed the idea of a questionnaire for prospective partners.

He wasn't Ringo, though. He was more like Paul. Maureen was Ringo, except she wasn't very funny. I was George, except I wasn't shy, or spiritual. Martin was John, except he wasn't talented or cool. Thinking about it, maybe we were more like another group with four people in it.

I am a rationalist, and I don't believe in genies, or sudden personality changes. I wanted David's anger to vanish only after years and years in therapy.

lots of blokes have a Woody Allen sense of humor but look like Woody Allen.

All the books we own, both read and unread, are the fullest expression of self we have at our disposal. But with each passing year, and with each whimsical purchase, our libraries become more and more able to articulate who we are, whether we read the books or not.

Ma mentre trovavo loro una casa nella sezione "saggistica d'arte e letteratura" (personalmente trovo che agli scopi domestici il sistema di archiviazione Trivial Pursuit funzioni meglio del Dewey), d'un tratto ho avuto una piccola epifania: tutti i libri che possediamo, letti e no, sono l'espressione più piena che abbiamo a disposizione della nostra personalità.

But with each passing year, and each whimsical purchase, our libraries become more and more able to articulate who we are, whether we read the books or not.

Don't you like it [i.e. school]?... No. I hate it. Why? It doesn't suit me. I'm not a school sort of person. I'm the wrong personality type.

Motherhood makes multiple personalities look normal and necessary.

Craig was a nice guy, don't get me wrong, but he was so low-key that once I'd gotten to know him, I was almost completely unable to have even imaginary conversations with him while cooking his recipes. Around

You're the worst kind; you're high maintenance but you think you're low maintenance.