“ All year long Sylvia had been trying to overthrow her guileless, college girl image. She knew "cottons with big full skirts and university personalities" would have looked hopelessly naive in New York… Elizabeth Winder
“ It is so easy to practice a creditable degree of so seeming virtue, and so difficult to purify and direct the affections of the heart, that I feel myself in continual danger of appearing better than I… Karen Swallow Prior
“ But I have never wanted to be perceived as chatty and bright. I have always wanted to be solemn and mysterious. Sara Baume
“ Realize that the tests you endure will mold your character, persona, and will. The more heartbreak and pain you will feel with your trials in life, the greater your joy and glory will be once you've o… J. Junior Reynolds II
“ You think you must fit the role others have laid out for you. That is the lie you need to conquer. Elizabeth Carlton
“ Rumors run wild when one sacrifices for self and temporarily forsakes those who assume entitlement to one's persona. T.F. Hodge
“ It's good when a man deceives your expectations, when he doesn't correspond to the preconceived notion of him. To belong to a type is the end of a man, his condemnation. If he doesn't fall into any ca… Boris Pasternak
“ (reporter interviewing Broadway dancer Tommy Tune:) 'Do you think that greats like Fred Astaire possessed some kind of magic?'(pause)'No. Magic possesses them'. Tommy Tune
“ When my turn on the program comes, I am not nervous at all—because all this is happening out of time, out of space. I am, for a moment, a figure of my own fantasy, and I play my appointed role as if I… Eva Hoffman
“ What does this wildish intuition do for women? Like the wolf, intuition has claws that pry things open and pin things down, it has eyes that can through the shields of persona, it has ears that hear b… Clarissa Pinkola Estes
“ Isabelle and Amory were distinctly not innocent, nor were they particularly brazen. Moreover, amateur standing had very little value in the game they were playing, a game that would presumably be her… F. Scott Fitzgerald
“ Whatever they may think and say about their "egoism", the great majority nonetheless do nothing for their ego their whole life long: what they do is done for the phantom of their ego which has formed… Friedrich Nietzsche
“ The most important thing in business is a persona, Nico,' he was fond of saying. 'People want to know immediately what they're dealing with. And when they think about you, you've got to stand out in t… Candace Bushnell
