#temperament

As a West Side kid fooling around with boxing gloves, I had been, for some reason of temperament, more interested in dodging a blow than in striking one. ↗

— Gene Tunney

#been #blow #boxing #dodging #fooling

No one connected intimately with a writer has any appreciation of his temperament, except to think him overdoing everything. ↗

— Zane Grey

#appreciation #connected #everything #except #him

When I did have a little bit of commercial success, it really didn't suit my temperament at all. I'm a terrible public person. ↗

— Juliana Hatfield

#commercial #commercial success #did #i #little

I like cats. I used to have a lot of cats, but I don't anymore, now I just have a dog. It does take a certain temperament to have a cat, as they do have certain personalities. ↗

— Jennifer Love Hewitt

#cat #cats #certain #does #dog

Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#artistic #disease #temperament

My co-workers expect me to be late and temperamental. ↗

— Eva Gabor

#expect #late #me #temperamental

I wasn't really a performer by temperament. ↗

— Tom Lehrer

#performer #really #temperament

My temperament is not geared to that of a novelist. ↗

— Philip Levine

#novelist #temperament

The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments. ↗

— William James

#clash #extent #great #great extent #history

We were all so different, temperamentally from one another, it's impossible to believe that we were together for so long. The cast and crew. How could we be more different from one another? It's difficult to imagine. But something lovely came of it. ↗

— Madeleine Stowe

#believe #came #cast #could #crew