Temperament Quotes

• It was an amazing performer. Very temperamental, it spent a lot of time in its trailer.

  

  Tilda Swinton
  • Walking
  • Performers
  • Trailers

• Opposites attract, and I think temperament is so fundamental that you end up craving someone of the opposite temperament to complete you.

  

  Susan Cain
  • Opposites
  • Temperament
  • Attract

• I happen to be unfortunately temperamental. No, my temperament is also, what you describe to rainfalls, the will of society, to combat a number of contradictions. That happens to be my creative temperament.

  

  Wole Soyinka
  • Creative
  • Numbers
  • Contradiction

• British girls are as temperamental as Americans.

  

  Ivor Novello
  • Girl
  • Temperament

• I have left out what I don't remember or don't know. Temperament, fear, shyness, obedience, kindness.

  

  Gerald Stern
  • Remember
  • Kindness
  • Obedience

• Reading requires a loner's temperament, a high tolerance for silence, and an unhealthy preference for the company of people who are imaginary or dead.

  

  David Samuels
  • People
  • Reading
  • Silence

• There were many things I could do for two or three days and earn enough money to live on for the rest of the month. By temperament I'm a vagabond and a tramp.

  

  William Faulkner
  • Money
  • Month
  • Tramp

• I think one of the things about parents and children is there are the accidents of temperament. There's no guarantee that just because you are related you'll have anything in common.

  

  Aline Brosh McKenna
  • Children
  • Parents
  • Temperament

• Some have the temperament and tastes of genius, without its creative power. They feel acutely, but express tamely.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Power
  • Genius
  • Temperament

• One of the aphorisms occurred to me now and I wrote it under the picture: "Fate and temperament are two words for one and the same concept." That was clear to me now.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Picture
  • Temperament
  • Aphorisms

• I'm going to keep talking about what I would do as president, the experience that I bring, the temperament and judgment that led President Barack Obama to ask me to be secretary of state after we ran a really hard primary against each other. It's funny to me, because when I have a position, whether it's first lady, or senator, or secretary of state, and I'm doing the work, I'm really quite popular.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Experience
  • President
  • Judgment

• I am now of all humors that have showed themselves humors since the old days of goodman Adam to the pupil age of this present twelve o'clock at midnight.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Time
  • Night
  • Clock

• Stephen A.Douglas was a risk-taker by temperament; I expect that Lincoln - Douglas debates represented another risk he just couldn't resist. He lived to regret it.

  

  Allen C. Guelzo
  • Regret
  • Temperament
  • Debates

• Temperament is something that is an integral part of the artist. Not temper, temperament. There is a vast difference.

  

  Bette Davis
  • Artist
  • Difference
  • Temperament

• The moment you say, 'Please, give me a reason for this', then you are being impossible and temperamental.

  

  Montserrat Caballe
  • Moments
  • Impossible
  • Please

• The cut of a garment speaks of intellect and talent and the color of temperament and heart.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Heart
  • Intellect
  • Speaks

• We all have our individual artistic temperaments as well as partisanships in creative directions. And we have strong opinions on the merits of the products of our occupation.

  

  Wole Soyinka
  • Strong
  • Opinion
  • Creative

• I think there's a shamanic temperament, which is a person who craves knowledge, knowledge in the Greek sense of gnosis. In other words, knowledge not of the sort where you subscribe to Scientific American, and it validates what you believe, but cosmologies constructed out of immediate experiences that are found to be always applicable.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Persons
  • Found
  • Greek

• The artistic temperament is too often only an alibi for lack of responsibility....

  

  Edmund Crispin
  • Responsibility
  • Temperament
  • Alibi

• Virtue is always too much of a piece and too ignorant of those shades of feeling and of temperament that enable us to squint when we are placed in a false position.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Virtue
  • Temperament
  • False Position

• I wasn't really a performer by temperament.

  

  Tom Lehrer
  • Performers
  • Temperament

• I have an artistic temperament, which is a really tragic thing.

  

  Heather O'Neill
  • Artistic
  • Tragic
  • Temperament

• History thus becomes largely a study of character. Insight into temperament is hardly less important than the probing of "original materials."

  

  Charles Francis Adams Jr.
  • Important
  • Character
  • History

• - the ethereal, fine-nerved, sensitive girl, quite unfitted by temperament and instinct to fulfil the conditions of the matrimonial relation with Phillotson, possibly with scarce any man.

  

  Thomas Hardy
  • Relation
  • Conditions
  • Temperament

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