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Quotes About Facets

Each way of organizing has strengths and weaknesses. Taxonomy affords a view from the top, facets help us muddle through the middle, and tags build bridges at the bottom.
~ Peter Morville
Maleficent has suffered abuse in the past, and there's a reason why she is now as furious as she is. And I think that children who have been outcast and abused in any way will relate to her. There's a beautiful side to her; she's not just a dark person. She has all these facets. And that is interesting.
~ Angelina Jolie
There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
I hate my picture being taken. A photograph by definition captures one mood. And I have a million facets to my personality; I never use just one. That's why I like TV more.
~ Jane Pauley
The order of the universe is like a gem with many facets, and we see only one, that which reflects the existence of our own world.
~ Raymond E. Feist
She wanted to do damage, gashed red, bleeding, and screaming damage to all and any of the bland facets of social restraint that meshed her about like spiderweb.
~ Richard K. Morgan
We all show facets, to your mother, or to your boyfriend, or a friend. You're always a bit different.
~ Eva Green
We only have so many faces in our pockets
~ Marlon Brando
I find Spike Jones' movies to be really very inventive and funny, but they're really sad and touching and really key into the different facets of the human experience.
~ Nick Kroll
It requires courage to make a frontal attack on nature through the broad planes and the large lines and it is cowardly to do it by the facets and details. It is a battle.
~ Edgar Degas
His character is like an emerald—multifaceted and enhanced by inclusions.
~ Melika Dannese Lux, Corcitura
BECAUSE ROOSEVELT WAS9, in the image of Professor Brander Matthews of Columbia University, "polygonal," visitors saw only certain facets of his personality at any given time.
~ Edmund Morris
People pitch me the crazy mystery mind-blowing thing all the time. My response is, 'Great, but how do the characters feel about it, and how do we reveal new facets and new dimensions of who they are?'
~ Eric Kripke
Next identify the key trigger words, that is, words that jump out at you as you scan the book. The author uses them again and again because they represent key facets of the book's theme. In The Einstein Factor, such terms as "Image Streaming," "Squelcher," and "Feedback Loop" will have jumped out at you. Find out precisely what the trigger words mean, and you will understand the book.
~ Win Wenger
Hot April sunshine poured in through the open top of the old Caddy, shafts of it splattering into rainbows as they sliced through the facets of the spiderweb windshield.
~ Laurence Shames
Three things no one has ever said about me: You make it look so easy. You are very mysterious. You need to take yourself more seriously.
~ Jenny Offill
Love has many faces.
~ Kelly LeBrock
Different roles call for different aspects or different faces of Sterling to emerge.
~ Sterling K. Brown
Part of the brilliance of Stieg Larsson's books is that they are so complex, so many different facets coming together.
~ David Lagercrantz
I think all characters are facets of the writer. In a way, they have to be if you're going to write them convincingly.
~ Ruth Ozeki
I think difficult characters are very rewarding to do. They often have facets to them and this and that.
~ Ben Mendelsohn
As I've been saying for decades, as long as racism exists in society, it will exist in all facets of society. Until we eradicate it from society, football will be like any other industry.
~ John Barnes
I cannot remember a time when I did not take it as understood that everybody has at least two, if not twenty-two sides to him.
~ Robertson Davies
The most enviable writers are those who, quite often unanalytically and unconsciously, have realized that there are different facets to their nature and are able to live and work with now one, now another, in the ascendant.
~ Dorothea Brande