Profile Quotes - Page 2

• A profile, a look, a voice, can capture a heart in no time at all.

  Sylvia Nasar

  Heart, Voice, Looks

  Sylvia Nasar (2012). “A Beautiful Mind”, Faber & Faber

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• Rappers act so wild, and love to profile,
  Frontin' hard, but ain't got no style.

  Big Daddy Kane

  Rap, Hip Hop, Style

  Song: Smooth Operator, Album: It's a Big Daddy Thing

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• The true end users of Facebook are the marketers who want to reach and influence us. They are Facebook's paying customers; we are the product. And we are its workers. The countless hours that we - and the young, particularly - spend on our profiles are the unpaid labor on which Facebook justifies its stock valuation.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Want, Influence, Hours

  "Why I'm quitting Facebook". Article by Douglas Rushkoff, edition.cnn.com. February 25, 2013.

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• I wish you would be more true to your demographic profile. Life is confusing enough.

  Tony Kushner

  Confusing, Wish, Would Be

  Tony Kushner (1993). “Angels in America: a gay fantasia on national themes”

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• I want to stay healthy, keep fit, eat well, keep a low profile and be a good dad.

  Frank Bruno

  Dad, Healthy, Want

  "I've finally beaten my mental health demons" by Nick Owens, www.mirror.co.uk. March 12, 2012.

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• I'm going to Columbia University but I'm trying to keep that low-profile because I don't want weird people following me there. I want the experience of normal college life.

  Julia Stiles

  College, People, Trying

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• It is time to know more about would-be terrorists, to profile for terrorists and to actively discriminate based on suspicious terrorist information.

  Newt Gingrich

  Information, Would Be, Terrorist

  "On Terrorism it’s Time to Know, to Profile, and to Discriminate". humanevents.com. December 30, 2009.

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• To create anything — whether a short story or a magazine profile or a film or a sitcom — is to believe, if only momentarily, you are capable of magic. These essays are about that magic — which is sometimes perilous, sometimes infectious, sometimes fragile, sometimes failed, sometimes infuriating, sometimes triumphant, and sometimes tragic. I went up there. I wrote. I tried to see.

  Tom Bissell

  Believe, Magic, Stories

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• Every so often you have to increase your profile so you can let it lower again, like a balloon.

  Robyn Hitchcock

  Balloons, Increase

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• My price is five dollars for a miniature on ivory, and I have engaged three or four at that price. My price for profiles is one dollar, and everybody is willing to engage me at that price

  Samuel Morse

  Science, Ivory, Dollars

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• Analyses of the movie marketplace points to an interesting phenomenon: High-profile movies are continuing to do well year-to-year in the U.S. and overseas - this past summer, for example, the top 10 movies registered at the same level as in '04.

  Peter Bart

  Movie, Summer, Past

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• Some of the politicians in this country, in their feverish search for group acceptance, are ready to endorse tumultuous confrontation as a substitute for debate, and the most illogical and unfitting extensions of the Bill of Rights as protections for psychotic and criminal elements in our society.... We have seen all too clearly that there are men - now in power in this country - who do not represent authority, who cannot cope with tradition, and who believe that the people of America are ready to support revolution as long as it is done with a cultured voice and a handsome profile.

  Spiro T. Agnew

  Country, Believe, Acceptance

  "The Impudent Snobs" by John R. Coyne, Jr., (p. 324), 1972.

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• Each human being has his own sexual profile, and should exercise it without guilt - provided he does not oblige others to exercise it with him.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Exercise, Guilt

  Paulo Coelho (2015). “Warrior of the Light -”, p.25, Booklassic

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• Success: The successful person is willing to do what the unsuccessful person is not willing to do. Draw a profile of success in whatever you are choosing to improve. If you are willing to do what that profile demands, then you have a credible demand of success. If you are not willing to do that then it just will not be there for you. You can't have the one without the other.

  Hyrum W. Smith

  Success, Wisdom, Peace

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• As a genre, rockabilly's post-Elvis profile has seldom been lower in the United States. Many labels that produced fresh bass-slappin' sides during the '90's are now out of business.

  Brian Setzer

  United States, Labels, Bass

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• Kai neared his desk again, seeing that the fugitive's profile had been transferred to the screen. His frown deepened. Perhaps not dangerous, but young and inarguably good-looking. His prison photo showed him flippantly winking at the camera. Kai hated him immediately.

  Marissa Meyer

  Cameras, Prison, Looking Good

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• They smoke cigarettes professionally. The smoke is inhaled very sharply and the teeth are bared.Then the head turns to give you a profile and the smoke is exhaled slowly and deliberately and the grey jet stream becomes a beautiful blue cloud of smoke.What are they trying to tell us?

  Jeffrey Bernard

  Beautiful, Clouds, Blue

  Jeffrey Bernard (1986). “Low life”

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• When my friends lack an eye, I look at them in profile.

  Joseph Joubert

  Friendship, Eye, Looks

  Joseph Joubert (1928). “Pensées and letters of Joseph Joubert”

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• In particular, Australia, because of its ancient geography, soil profile and distinctive weather patterns, is more adversely affected by climate variability than some other continents.

  Peter Garrett

  Weather, Australia, Climate

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Ever since I've become chairman, there have been profiles of me in People, George, The Washington Post, The Detroit News, and all of them could have been written by the same person

  Julian Bond

  People, News, Detroit

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• Newt Gingrich's job to capture the Congress was to give Republican candidates an edge and a distinction from their Democratic opponent. That required a very high profile, some very strong language.

  Pete du Pont

  Strong, Jobs, Giving

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• A pharaoh's profile, a Krishna's grace, tail like a question mark.

  Louis MacNeice

  Cat, Grace, Tails

  Louis MacNeice (2015). “Collected Poems”, p.425, Faber & Faber

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• I think if you go from show to show without doing that big PR blitz its helpful because people can get pretty sick of your face if youre just out there all the time. And keep a low profile, hold in your stomach and be a good sport.

  Jane Curtin

  Sports, Thinking, People

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• I know that if I say something that's considered outrageous, a group will take it, create an email blast, and use me to raise money or to do whatever, to build their profile.

  Greg Gutfeld

  Email, Groups, Use

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• During the election, I had three male opponents and we went into a runoff. The front runner for the men was a native of Dallas who had run at large before, but I had a higher profile than him from my community service.

  Eddie Bernice Johnson

  Running, Men, Community

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