Personality Quotes

I've always been very confident in my immaturity.

~ Brandon Sanderson

I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.

~ Beatrix Potter

...larger than life...I've never understood that expression. What's larger than life?

~ Nicole Krauss

I use bits and pieces of others personalities to form my own.

~ Kurt Cobain

How often, you wonder, has the direction of your life been shaped by such misunderstandings? How many opportunities have you been denied--or, for that matter, awarded--because someone failed to see you properly? How many friends have you lost, how many have you gained, because they glimpsed some element of your personality that shone through for only an instant, and in circumstances you could never reproduce? An illusion of water shimmering at the far bend of a highway.

~ Kevin Brockmeier

I'm THAT complicated, mysterious, yet content with the simple things in life. Don't try to understand me; you won't figure me out. But you're free to like me the way I am.

~ Marwa Ayad

I'd rather be a little weird than all boring.

~ Rebecca Mckinsey

I wish people weren't so set on being themselves, when that means being a bastard.

~ Robertson Davies

Stop thinking all the time that you're in the way, that you're bothering the person next to you. If people don't like it, they can complain. And if they don't have courage to complain, that's their problem.

~ Paulo Coelho

You want useless, you have come to the right guy. I can be useless for hours at a time. Weeks even. I'm currently closing in on a month of being totally useless, which is by way of being a personal best.

~ Sarah Rees Brennan

I was at a loss suddenly; but conscious all the while of how Armand listened; that he listened in the way that we dream of others listening, his face seeming to reflect on every thing said. He did not start forward to seize on my slightest pause, to assert an understanding of something before the thought was finished, or to argue with a swift, irresistible impulse -- the things which often make dialogue impossible.And after a long interval he said, 'I want you. I want you more than anything in the world.

~ Anne Rice

Gansey had always felt as if there were two of him: the Gansey who was in control, able to handle any situation, able to talk to anyone, and then, the other, more fragile Gansey, strung out and unsure, embarrassingly earnest, driven by naive longing.

~ Maggie Stiefvater

Just because a person chooses to express themselves in an extreme way doesn't mean they have an extreme personality.

~ Susane Colasanti

My mother finally took me to a child psychologist, who knew exactly what I was, but she just couldn’t accept it and kept trying to tell my folks I was reading their body language and was very observant, so I had good reason to imagine I heard people’s thoughts. Of course, she couldn’t admit I was literally hearing people’s thoughts because that just didn’t fit into her world.

~ Charlaine Harris

It's just that it's impossible to be a broken or whole person. You can only be a person. You can only exist, you can only belong to yourself, and you can only be responsible for your own happiness or belonging or whatever. That broken-part-piece-whole thing is just a trick of the mortal mind.

~ Jackson Pearce

We inhabit a world in which we tend to put labels on each other and expect that we will then march through life wearing them like permanent sandwich boards.

~ Nick Webb

The bones and flesh and legal statistics are the garments worn by the personality, not the other way around.

~ Robert M. Pirsig

Oh, Wax has always been solemn, but when he's at his best, there's a smirk underneath.

~ Brandon Sanderson

I'm told I'm very charming when people do what I want.

~ Steven Brust

At once, it’s clear I cannot gush. We try me playing cocky, but I just don’t have the arrogance. Apparently, I’m too “vulnerable” for ferocity. I’m not witty. Funny. Sexy. Or mysterious By the end of the session, I am no one at all.

~ Suzanne Collins

If there is a true measure of a person's soul, if there is a single gauge of real divinity, of how beautifully a fellow human honors this life, has genuine spiritual fire and is full of honest love and compassion, it has to be right there, in the eyes.The Dalai Lama's eyes sparkle and dance with laughter and unbridled love. The Pope's eyes are dark and glazed, bleak as obsidian marbles. Pat Robertson's eyes are rheumy and hollow, like tiny potholes of old wax. Goldman Sachs cretins, well, they don't use their own eyes at all; they just steal someone else's.

~ Mark Morford

Why do you work so hard to make yourself disliked? I should think you'd find it happens enough on its own without putting yourself to any extra trouble.

~ Steven Brust

Every human personality is the product of an innate drive to create something unique from one’s raw individual experience.

~ Tadahiko Nagao

For so long I have lived on the edge of an invisible world. Sometimes I feel like the scattered debris left over after the personality has fallen out of the sky.

~ Steve Rasnic Tem

Is she always like this? No, usually worse.

~ Steve Voake

She had been a solitary child, and then solitary as a woman, drawn into an orbit of her own that took her away from others, even those who would be her friends.

~ Guy Gavriel Kay

Fashion is only different skins for different flavours of you.

~ Lauren Beukes

So it seems as though this part of us that is living a life on Earth is only a small piece or splinter of a much larger us. That we are many rather than one, or rather pieces of a more complex whole. We are only able to focus on the splinter we perceive as our totality. That is a good thing, because if we were aware of the complexity of it we would not be able to function in this world or reality. We are only able to see the facade that masks a much larger picture. Only now are we being allowed to peek behind the veil.

~ Dolores Cannon

Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.

~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

There were some people, it seemed, who were incapable of being pleasant about anything. Of course, the cars that such people drove tended to be difficult as well. Nice cars have nice drivers; bad cars have bad drivers. A person's gearbox revealed everything that you could want to know about that person, thought Mr J.L.B. Matekoni.

~ Alexander Mccall Smith

How could he try to get Sandi to reveal her true colors when she was a rainbow?

~ Peggy Webb

Salander was an information junkie with a delinquent child's take on morals and ethics.

~ Stieg Larsson

Most personalities have been obliged to be rebels. Half their strength has been wasted in friction.

~ Oscar Wilde

Yuvraj Singh is one of the best batsmen to watch in world cricket when he's in form. He is ego personified. Yuvraj doesn’t just hit the ball, he lets it rebound off his aura.

~ Jarrod Kimber

Jobs had always been an extremely opinionated eater, with a tendency to instantly judge any food as either fantastic or terrible. He could taste two avocados that most mortals would find indistinguishable, and declare that one was the best avocado ever grown and the other inedible.

~ Walter Isaacson

Years later, on a Steve Jobs discussion board on the website Gawker, the following tale appeared from someone who had worked at the Whole Foods store in Palo Alto a few blocks from Jobs' home: 'I was shagging carts one afternoon when I saw this silver Mercedes parked in a handicapped spot. Steve Jobs was inside screaming at his car phone. This was right before the first iMac was unveiled and I'm pretty sure I could make out, 'Not. Fucking. Blue. Enough!!!

~ Walter Isaacson

Be Weird, at least you will have a unique Personality.

~ Udayveer Singh

An excellent but an eccentric man in whom the least little thing would, it seemed, often check the flow of his spirits and divert the current of his thoughts.

~ Marcel Proust

Everything he said should be followed by a big sic

~ Vladimir Nabokov

Julien felt himself to be strong and resolute like a man who sees clearly into his own heart.

~ Stendhal