Characterless Man Quotes

#1. Yes, a man in the nineteenth century must and morally ought to be pre-eminently a characterless creature; a man of character, an active man is pre-eminently a limited creature.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#2. I'd love to look like my mum when I am her age. She taught ballet for years, and my attitude to exercise and fitness has definitely been influenced by her. She's 84 now, and I've watched how well she has aged, and a lot of that is to do with her fantastic posture.

Sarah Parish

#3. Her body was a mix of thin and plump, her skin lined and unlined, in that rounding-the-corner-to-fifty way. Age and youth, he chanted silently, youth and age, sing their songs on the very same stage.

Lorrie Moore

#4. You know, Greenwich Village was the traditional bohemia of New York. I wish I could say that was entirely true now. It's, uh ... changed. It's now got, God help us, investment bankers and journalists, but it's still a very beautiful part of New York.

Jay McInerney

#5. The woman I love burns with jealousy, leaps to conclusions, cries, and turns to ice ... but when she laughs ... the world is mine.

Rumiko Takahashi

#6. Unless you are willing to try, fail miserable, and try again, success won't happen.

Phillip Adams

#7. Originality is no excuse for ignorance.

Fred Brooks

#8. Somebody is always reflectively monkeying with some of the parts of an infinite universe - monkeying as distinct from aping.

Willis R. Whitney

#9. Nobody told me how hard it was going to be to get published. I wrote four novels that nobody wanted, sent them out all over, collected hundreds and hundreds of rejection slips.

Jerry Spinelli

#10. Exactly. The most convincing argument doesn't come from pithy sayings or aphorisms, but through stories. A clear line of causality, from one event to the next, that seems to be leading to an inevitable conclusion." "We are fighting our guerrilla war battle by battle.

Edward W. Robertson

#11. And yet there was not a definable thought in his mind. Only a terrifying effort to get from one side of a match box to another.

Hubert Selby Jr.

#12. Congress does two things well: nothing and overreacting.

Michael Oxley