Characterization Video Quotes

#1. My parents are wonderful people and they instilled in me an idealism for which I'm grateful.

Hugh Hefner

#2. Good manners and soft words have brought many a difficult thing to pass.

John Vanbrugh

#3. For what were all these country patriots born? To hunt, and vote, and raise the price of corn?

Lord Byron

#4. Yes, sometimes I think that all my writing is nothing more than the compensatory work of a frustrated painter.

J.G. Ballard

#5. I think I'll buy you from your father so you can say nice things like that to me three times a day. How much for her, Mo?

Cornelia Funke

#6. Ignoring all prejudices of caste, creed, class, color, sex, or race, a swami follows the precepts of human brotherhood. His goal is absolute unity with Spirit.

Paramahansa Yogananda

#7. I have my own difficulty with movies in which the suffering of the characters is too real, and many find it difficult to watch comedies that rely too heavily on embarrassment; the vicarious reaction to this is too unpleasant.

Paul Bloom

#8. The fight for free space-for wilderness and for public space-must be accompanied by a fight for free time to spend wandering in that space. Otherwise the individual imagination will be bulldozed over for the chain-store outlets of consumer appetite, true-crime titillations, and celebrity crises.

Rebecca Solnit

#9. Our increasing ability to alter our biology and open up the processes of life is now fueling a new cultural war.

Gregory Stock

#10. Inconsistencies in men are generally testimony to their immaturity.

Edwin Louis Cole

#11. Growing old has been the greatest surprise of my life.

Billy Graham

#12. To be honest, I couldn't hold a conversation with anybody in any language other than English - and that's a struggle sometimes!

Phil Collins

#13. Weirdly the writing experience has not really changed that much except it used to be that I was busy because I had to work a couple of jobs to earn money, so I didn't have time to write.

Bonnie Jo Campbell

#14. Geopolitical and demographic forces are so rooted in the unchangeable that political action often generates little but noise.

Peter Zeihan

#15. In my experience, nothing worthwhile has ever really been all that easy. But it certainly has been worthwhile regardless how difficult it seemed.

Robert Fanney