#temper

No one connected intimately with a writer has any appreciation of his temperament, except to think him overdoing everything. ↗

— Zane Grey

#appreciation #connected #everything #except #him

I like cats. I used to have a lot of cats, but I don't anymore, now I just have a dog. It does take a certain temperament to have a cat, as they do have certain personalities. ↗

— Jennifer Love Hewitt

#cat #cats #certain #does #dog

Nobody with an IQ higher than emergency-room temperature could ever believe that 'death panels' would be appointed to nudge the elderly toward euthanasia. Yet for idle entertainment, it's hard to beat Sarah Palin's ignorant nattering on the subject. ↗

— Carl Hiaasen

#beat #believe #could #death #elderly

British girls are as temperamental as Americans. ↗

— Ivor Novello

#temperamental

The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do. ↗

— Horace

#cannot #irritation #prompted #restrain #temper

If they're not temperamental, I don't want them. It's in the nature of a great artist to be that way. ↗

— Sol Hurok

#great #i #nature #temperamental #them

If you are a novelist of a certain type of temperament, then what you really want to do is re-invent the world. God wasn't too bad a novelist, except he was a Realist. ↗

— John Barth

#certain #except #god #novelist #realist

To be a good actor... it is necessary to have a firmly tempered soul, to be surprised at nothing, to resume each minute the laborious task that has barely just been finished. ↗

— Sarah Bernhardt

#barely #been #each #finished #firmly

That's one of the great advantages of age. You can say, I don't want to, I don't care, you can throw temper tantrums, and nobody minds. ↗

— James Lee Burke

#age #care #great #i #minds

Remember likewise there are persons who love fewer words, an inoffensive sort of people, and who deserve some regard, though of too still and composed tempers for you. ↗

— Joseph Butler

#deserve #fewer #likewise #love #people