“It's somewhat of a contradiction, .. I guess the quieter the voice, the more necessary it is to push it. It's not going to leap out at you and scream. I also can't control how a book is marketed. To say the book marketing is aggressive, fine, I'm happy with that. Push the book. That doesn't mean that my personality or writing style changes.” WritingMeanBookVoiceStyleFinePersonalityMarketingContradictionLeapAggressiveScreamWriting Style Author:David Bergen
“But in my life, in my personality, there is an essence of falseness and insincerity. A thin, fine vapor of fraud hangs always over me and dampens and injures some things in me that I value.” ValuesFinePersonalityEssenceFraudVaporInsincerityFalseness Book:I Await the Devil's Coming: Annotated & Unexpurgated Source: I Await the Devil's Coming: Annotated & Unexpurgated
“I think once you start as an announcer, you have to decide what kind of approach you're going to have. I decided very early that I was going to be a reporter, that I would not cheer for the team. I don't denigrate people who do it. It's fine. I think you just have to fit whatever kind of personality you have, and I think my nature was to be more down the middle and that's the way I conducted the broadcasts.” PeopleThinkingWayKindTeamMiddleFinePersonalityFitApproachDecidedCheerReportersAnnouncers Author:Ernie Harwell
“I'm an extremist, I have to deal with my own extreme personality, and I walk the fine line of wanting to die and wanting to be the ruler of it all.” DiesLinesMy OwnWalksDealsFinePersonalityExtremesRulersExtremistWanting To DieFine Lines Author:Davey Havok
“The unique personality which is the real life in me, I can not gain unless I search for the real life, the spiritual quality, in others. I am myself spiritually dead unless I reach out to the fine quality dormant in others. For it is only with the god enthroned in the innermost shrine of the other, that the god hidden in me, will consent to appear.” I CanRealSpiritualSpiritualityReligiousQualityFinePersonalityUniqueGainsUnityReal LifeReach OutCan NotConsentDormantShrinesUnique Personality Author:Felix Adler
“The single most important thing is to know the game. Study the history of the game, the fine points of the game, and the personalities of the game so you'll be able to recognize what they're doing out there and then you'll be able to anticipate certain things that are going to happen.” KnowsImportantHappensAbleCertainGamesStudyFinePersonalityImportant ThingsAnticipate Author:Marty Glickman
“George Oppen wasn't a larger than life personality, but I'm not either. And he lived a long time, so he was happy. Going down in flames is fine, too.” LongFinePersonalityLong TimeFlamesLarger Than Life Author:Stephen Malkmus