Personality From Famous People Quotes & Sayings

I also feel that if you were evil, then next time around you would be very good. — Patricia Velasquez

Books are like puppies, they wait for you with unconditional love and welcome you back whenever you return. — J.D. Barker

When the mind is peaceful, hearts will bloom with love. — Debasish Mridha

Pay him a decent salary and work him hard. That way he won't have enough time to write anything on the side. But don't pay him so much that he can save up money to quit. — Candace Bushnell

Without death and decay, how could life go on? — John Burroughs

Life at court does not satisfy a man, but it keeps him from being satisfied with anything else. — Jean De La Bruyere

When you said Please to those who...had no option but to obey, what were you really saying? — Joyce Carol Oates

I think in the end, when you're famous, people like to narrow you down to a few personality traits. I think I've just become this ambitious, say-whatever's-on-her-mind, intimidating person. And that's part of my personality, but it's certainly not anywhere near the whole thing. — Madonna Ciccone

After Zorro, people spoke Spanish to me for ages. I'm Welsh but that movie instantly gave me a new ethnicity. — Catherine Zeta-Jones

The most liberating of all thoughts is disregard or "disconcern" for what other people think. Famous mail-order impresario and entrepreneur J. Peterman wrote (in his autobiography Peterman Rides Again); "Once you realize that most people are keeping up appearances and putting on a show, their approval becomes less important." Excessive concern over what other people think inhibits personality more than any other factor. — Maxwell Maltz

The fashion industry tends to attract people with serious personality defects. They just want to be rich and famous. But at some point you have to decide: Are you going to mindlessly go the easy way or are you going to go the ethical way? — Katharine Hamnett

And every day, the world will drag you by the hand, yelling "This is important! And this is important! And this is important! You need to worry about this! And this! And this!"
And each day, it's up to you, to yank your hand back, put it on your heart and say "No. This is what's important. — Pleasefindthis

Illinois surpasses every other spot of equal extent upon the face of the globe in fertility of soil and in the proportionable amount of the same which is sufficiently level for actual cultivation. — Abraham Lincoln

There is a lot of evidence to back up the assertion that war fiction takes time. Many all-time classics of the genre, from Erich Maria Remarque's 'All Quiet on the Western Front' to Joseph Heller's 'Catch-22' to Tim O'Brien's 'The Things They Carried,' took over a decade to pen. — Matt Gallagher

One of the words I railed against was "personality," as in a "TV personality." But now I wonder if it isn't the only word for that vast swarm of people who are famous for being famous - and possibly nothing else. What did the Gabor sisters actually do? — William Zinsser

I learned that famous writers are people with foibles like anyone else and this helped me realize reaching their level of notoriety wasn't impossible. — Kirby Wright

The pro athlete is a sad tale. He signs a big contract and thinks he's set for life. I didn't think I was set for life, and I don't now. As athletes, we are important, celebrities, in demand and rich. Then we are out of the game and we are not important, not celebrities, not in demand and not rich. — Fran Tarkenton

Although even when I am being idle I have plenty of food for thought both early and late - thoughts both about and not about art. — Gustav Klimt