Mannerisms For Characters Quotes & Sayings

Censure acquits the raven, but pursues the dove. — Juvenal

All I'm trying to do is not join my ancestral spirits just yet. — Joshua Nkomo

People who have achieved a public voice find it a mixed bag. — Jimmy Wales

The garden where you sit Has never a need of flowers, For you are the blossoms And only a fool or the blind Would fail to know it — Louis De Bernieres

Publishing a novel is often likened to having a baby. It is much worse to that. It is like giving birth to something with cloven hooves, a monster in a black and white mask. Characters must reveal a blend of good and bad qualities with distinguishing tics and mannerisms. It obliges the writer to clear the mist from the mirror to see who you really are in order to establish who they really are. — Chloe Thurlow

I wanted none of it finally. And, deserving nothing better, I closed up like a spider in the flame of a match. And even Armand who was my constant companion, and my only companion, existed at a great distance from me, beyond that veil which separated me from all living things, a veil which was a form of shroud. — Anne Rice

I went from elementary school to proper training, operatic training, and I went on to the Motown University and learned a lot of things from some wonderful people. — Martha Reeves

In music, as you develop a theme or musical idea, there are many points at which directions must be decided, and at any time I was in the throes of debate with myself, harmonically or melodically, I would turn to Billy Strayhorn. We would talk, and then the whole world would come into focus. The steady hand of his good judgment pointed to the clear way that was fitting for us. He was not, as he was often referred to by many, my alter ego. Billy Strayhorn was my right arm, my left arm, all the eyes in the back of my head, my brainwaves in his head, and his in mine. — Duke Ellington

I keep a very low profile in Switzerland. There are only about 2,000 people in the village I live in, so it's a quiet town. — Adam Derek Scott

You don't have to be a political genius to sniff the smell of blood in the water. — Rich Galen

How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him. — Frank Herbert

Ideas are never scarce; it is only one's panic sense of limitation that blocks the way. — Joyce Grenfell