The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.
Peter De Vries

The essence of democracy is its assurance that every human being should so respect himself and should be so respected in his own personality that he should have opportunity equal to that of every other human being to show what he was meant to become.
Anna Garlin Spencer

The fact is that all of us have only one personality, and we wring it out like a dishtowel. You are what you are.
S. J. Perelman

The friend that I based Heffer on was adopted, and it all played into his total personality.
Joe Murray

The functions of the family in a highly differentiated society are not to be interpreted as functions directly on behalf of the society, but on behalf of personality.
Talcott Parsons

The hypothesis of surviving intelligence and personality - not only surviving but anxious and able with difficulty to communicate - is the simplest and most straightforward and the only one that fits all the facts.
Oliver Joseph Lodge

The idea of eternity lives in all of us. We thirst to live in a belief which raises our small personality to a higher coherence - a coherence which is human and yet superhuman, absolute and yet steadily growing and developing, ideal and yet real.
Christian Lous Lange

The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time.
George Orwell

The landscape is like being there with a powerful personality and I'm searching for just the right angles to make that portrait come across as meaningfully as possible.
Galen Rowell

The makeup is simply an extension of the personality and colors, clothing, makeup all express something.
Gene Simmons

The more melancholy side of my literary personality is much in tune with BS Johnson's.
Jonathan Coe

The more you build your life on principle and less on personality - yours or others - the straighter will be your course.
Edwin Louis Cole

The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
Paul Cezanne

The Odyssey is the story of someone who, in the course of diverse experiences, acquires a personality or affirms and recovers his personality.
Raymond Queneau

The only thing I do worry about is that the more films I do the more visible I am going to become as a personality because of press and because of the sheer quantity of films.
Vincent D'Onofrio

The personality problem is so tough when you're not able to pay people. It's bad enough when you can pay people, but, when you have people working for free, often their motivation is diminished considerably.
John Badham

The point I am making is that in the more primitive forms of society the individual is merely a unit; in more developed forms of society he is an independent personality.
Herbert Read

The process of composition, messing around with paragraphs and trying to make really good prose, is hardwired into my personality.
Rick Moody

The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.
T. S. Eliot

The puppet characters were combinations of people I had known and to some degree aspects of my own personality. Weird was based on someone I knew in Chicago. Dirty Dragon was based on a good friend I had in Indianapolis.
William Jackson