Cardboard Characters Quotes

#1. One can see [ ... ] that the so-called governing powers are cardboard characters that mask the true ruling factors of our culture. Of course, those who manipulate the nation are not stupid. Rulers throughout history are only as powerful as the people who support them allow them to be.

Peter Moon

#2. Bad decisions can make some damn good memories!

Ilsa Madden-Mills

#3. When people make a contract with the devil and give him an air-conditioned office to work in, he doesn't go back home easily.

James Lee Burke

#4. Finding a writer who can write decent kids' dialog and finding kids that can act realistically and not 'cute' is an effort.

Joe Dante

#5. One could construe the life of man as a great discourse in which the various people represent different parts of speech (the same might apply to states).

Soren Kierkegaard

#6. The news today that Bush has vowed to veto any legislation that reviews the security implications of the Dubai Port World's potential management of our ports is ludicrous and the entire Democratic Party is calling him to task for it.

John Conyers

#7. Life serves the food, and Death always shows up to the banquet, like an univited guest with nothing in hand to contribute, just to devour everything
then leave.

Anthony Liccione

#8. I am extremely lucky that I have a husband who is so supportive. He's not in the slightest bit jealous or worried about the things I do in certain scenes.

Malin Akerman

#9. Most of my films have a lot of character development and exploration, whereas in most horror movies the characters are just cardboard.

Larry Cohen

#10. Sympathy compounded of liking and compassion in varying proportions evidently seemed to Jane Austen the most natural inventive to imaginative interest in a character.

Mary Lascelles

#11. In truth, she hadn't put much thought into whether she was happy before. She supposes that since she never thought about it, she must have been happy. People who are happy don't really need to ask themselves if they are happy or not, do they? They just are happy, she thinks.

Gabrielle Zevin

#12. His characters may be cardboard, but each has a clear, uncomplicated purpose. Every moment of the story contributes to building conflict.

Donald Maass

#13. Who, like Crozier, would rather have his kidney stones removed with a spoon than be forced to suffer sermons -

Dan Simmons

#14. A happy heart can walk in triumphant indifference through a sea of external trouble; while internal anguish cannot find happiness in the most favorable surroundings.

Hannah Whitall Smith

#15. Only by realizing what selfishness and lack of generosity really are can the delicious fragrance of true love and effective generosity, which is not of the mind, burst forth in our hearts..

Samael Aun Weor

#16. Sometimes my dreams are so deep that I dream that I'm dreaming.

Ray Charles

#17. man had blond hair, all right, and he smiled and showed all his teeth.

Gertrude Chandler Warner

#18. A few days of idleness have completely sickened me, and given me what is called the blue-devils so severely, that I feel that the sooner I go to work and drive them off, the better.

John James Audubon

#19. To say that Agatha Christie's characters are cardboard cut-outs is an insult to cardboard cut-outs.

Ruth Rendell