logo

Quotes About Personality

Who are you and what medications aren't you taking?
~ John Scalzi
This was a person who operated best and most efficiently when she was truly and genuinely pissed off; wishing for her to mellow out was like wishing an alpha predator would switch to grains. It was missing the point.
~ John Scalzi
I understand you knew Nadashe Nohamapetan personally." "I did," Kiva said. "What did you think of her?" "She's a raging jar of crotch sweat." "Seems accurate.
~ John Scalzi
There aren't a lot of people who can carry off petty," I said. "Yet somehow you do.
~ John Scalzi
Fundamentally, there's no connection between whether someone is personally nice and whether they pursue an agenda inimical to what you perceive as desirable.
~ John Scalzi
Guy don't need no sense to be a nice fella. Seems to me sometimes it jus' works the other way around. Take a real smart guy and he ain't hardly ever a nice fella.
~ John Steinbeck
Strange how one person can saturate a room with vitality, with excitement. Then there are others, and this dame was one of them, who can drain off energy and joy, can suck pleasure dry and get no sustenance from it. Such people spread a grayness in the air about them.
~ John Steinbeck
There is a great deal to be seen in the tilt of a hat on a man.
~ John Steinbeck
Names are a great mystery. I've never known whether the name is molded by the child or the child changed to fit the name. But you can be sure of this- whenever a human has a nickname it is a proof that the name given him was wrong.
~ John Steinbeck
He's a nice fella," said Slim. "Guy don't need no sense to be a nice fella. Seems to me sometimes it jus' works the other way around. Take a real smart guy and he ain't hardly ever a nice fella.
~ John Steinbeck
İnsan bazen o kadar kendi d???nda davran?r ki, size '' Bunu yapm?? olamaz. Karakterine ayk?r?, dedirtir. Belki de deÄŸildir. Yaln?zca baÅŸka bir aç? söz konusu olabilir veya yukar?dan aÅŸa??dan gelen bask?lar kiÅŸinin davran?? ÅŸeklini deÄŸiÅŸtirebilir.
~ John Steinbeck
a tight hard little woman humorless as a chicken.
~ John Steinbeck
It is true that ordinarily her voice was shrill, her face hard and sharp as a hatchet, her figure lumpy, and her intentions selfish.
~ John Steinbeck
Guy don't need no sense to be a nice fella. Seems to me sometimes it jus' works the other way around. Take a real smart guy and he ain't hardly ever a nice fella.
~ John Steinbeck
Cada viaje, safari o exploración es una entidad, diferente de todos los demás viajes. Tiene personalidad, temperamento, individualidad, carácter único. Un viaje es una persona en sí; no hay dos iguales. Y los planes, las salvaguardas, el control y la coerción son todos infructuosos. Descubrimos tras años de lucha que no hacemos un viaje: nos hace él a nosotros.
~ John Steinbeck
I think... no, I am positive... that you are the most unattractive man I have ever met in my entire life. You know, in the short time we've been together, you have demonstrated EVERY loathsome characteristic of the male personality and even discovered a few new ones. You are physically repulsive, intellectually retarded, you're morally reprehensible, vulgar, insensitive, selfish, stupid, you have no taste, a lousy sense of humor and you smell. You're not even interesting enough to make me sick.
~ John Updike
It is imperative that you understand your own personality and emotional state at the time you enter into a new relationship.
~ Unknown
We Believe: that faith in God gives meaning and purpose to human life: that the brotherhood of man transcends the sovereignty of nations: that economic justice can best be won by free men through free enterprise: that government should be of laws rather than of men: that earth's great treasure lies in human personality: and that service to humanity is the best work of life.
~ Unknown
First of all, accept that something is wrong with you. It's a good start. Something has always been wrong with me, too. We're in a club of sorts, the lunatic fringe who are proud to band together. There's a joyous road to ruin out there, and if you let me be your garbage guru, I'll teach you how to succeed in insanity and take control of your low self-esteem. Personality disorders are a terrible thing to waste.
~ John Waters
After a certain age, the more one becomes oneself, the more obvious one's family traits become.
~ Marcel Proust
I really don't know what makes a comedian. I think it's a family background and environment. Yet if you put the same ingredients in another person, he may never utter a funny line.
~ Bob Newhart
From the psychological jousting between sisters in the early family arena emerge the first tentative boundaries of their personalities.
~ Elizabeth Fishel
I suppose that when I'm building a character, it's usually related to what their family is like and who their parents are, as well as how I grew up - that nurture side.
~ Henry Cavill
There's nothing like meeting someone's family to get a true sense of them and a reflection of their ethics and personality. It just makes them a more rounded person.
~ Lenora Crichlow