#traits

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #traits




A person himself believes that all the other portraits are good likenesses except the one of himself.


Edvard Munch


#except #good #himself #other #person

Havin' fun while freedom fightin' must be one of those lunatic Texas traits we get from the water - which is known to have lithium in it - because it goes all the way back to Sam Houston, surely the most lovable, the most human, and the funniest of all the great men this country has ever produced.


Molly Ivins


#because #country #ever #freedom #fun

It's nothing to be ashamed of and that there are even beneficial traits associated with the condition. Most importantly, acknowledge yourself for who you are and if you're struggling with anything resembling ADD get professionally diagnosed.


Christopher Knight


#add #anything #ashamed #associated #beneficial

I just want to portray a very honest character that displays traits that people can truly relate to and can help them - the audience and myself because I learn from the characters as well - help them see themselves in a perspective that is outside of what they know already, and grow from that experience.


Kristin Kreuk


#audience #because #character #characters #displays

Dire Straits is a great band. Someone tells you they like ""Brothers in Arms"" and immediately you know they're a stupid annoying git.


Alexei Sayle


#arms #band #brothers #dire #git

I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.


Gertrude Stein


#closed #firmly #great #i #mouth

The best portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature.


Thomas B. Macaulay


#caricature #mixture #portraits #slight #those

And the kids?" "Quincy, nothing. All she wants to do is look for Saturn's rings and bring home every creature from the pound. Nelson, though, he's..." She looked at Nicholas. "He's like you. Gifted, but ignorant." Nicholas bristled, "I'm not ignorant." "You are about magic." "That's because I don't believe in magic." "Nicholas," She stopped, hands on hips, waiting until he turned around. "You're haunted. You see the dead. How can you not believe in magic?


Stephen M. Irwin


#brother #denial #family-traits #ghosts #magic

It has been difficult to hold onto many paintings but I have retained a few. Possibly the current favorite is titled 'Big Band' completed in 2005. It measures 13 feet x 9 feet. It has 18 nearly life size recognizable portraits of the biggest jazz stars that I knew and saw perform in the 1950s, '60s, '70s, '80s and includes Wynton Marsalis.


LeRoy Neiman


#been #big #big band #biggest #completed

Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born.


G. Stanley Hall


#adolescence #birth #born #completely #higher