"Of all sorts of flattery, that which comes from a solemn character and stands before a sermon is the worst-complexioned. Such commendation is a satire upon the author, makes the text look mercenary, and disables the discourse from doing service."

-- Jeremy Collier

#Character Quotes #Looks Quotes #Flattery Quotes

“I do enjoy running down a ditch full of mud, firing bullets. Itâ€™s the way I am. I love it.”

Source : "Prince Harry Reflects on 21st Birthday", www.foxnews.com. September 15, 2005.
“I think it's a privilege to be able to fly to somewhere where people want to see my show.”
“Consider first, that great or bright infers not excellence.”
“Most people get excited over new cars; I get excited over death certificates. It's no wonder my husband worries about my state of mind.”
“Flow in the living moment. â€” We are always in a process of becoming and nothing is fixed. Have no rigid system in you, and youâ€™ll be flexible to change with the ever changing. Open yourself and flow, my friend. Flow in the total openness of the living moment. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves. Moving, be like water. Still, be like a mirror. Respond like an echo.”
“I think that the audience should not be able to tell if it is real or not real - it should be an enhanced version of reality, or an artistic view of reality, that captures not only what is physically there, but what is not visible - the mood.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“every father knows at once too much and too little about his own son ...”
“More truly characteristic of dissent is a dignity, an elevation, of mood and thought and phrase. Deep conviction and warm feeling are saying their last say with knowledge that the cause is lost. The voice of the majority may be that of force triumphant, content with the plaudits of the hour, and recking little of the morrow. The dissenter speaks to the future, and his voice is pitched to a key that will carry through the years.”

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