Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I don't think many of us launched ourselves into the world of writing books fully formed.

- Val McDermid

I formed a band when I was about 13, and we all listened to punk - or what we thought was punk!

- Tim Gane

India was formed on the idea 'Let's get the British out.'

- Shekhar Kapur

So much of my aesthetic was formed by my dad.

- Ron Perlman

I was a Sedgewick without the smarts. It infused its way into me and I feel like it formed my character in a big way because of what I was exposed to.

- Rob Morrow

But I don't know. Pee-wee just kind of popped out one day, pretty much fully fleshed-out and fully formed.

- Paul Reubens

I definitely feel like a native New Yorker. My personality was formed there.

- Nicole Holofcener

A lot of my world-view is formed by the places I've been.

- James Ransone

It's hard to run away from who you are, and when your taste is formed is a very important thing.

- James Gray

History is formed by the people, those who have power and those without power. Each one of us makes history.

- Anselm Kiefer

In Italy, where I live now, I have put some distance between myself and the world that has formed me.

- Jhumpa Lahiri

The faith I was born into formed me.

- Huston Smith

They were two halves that together formed a magical whole.

- Dick Button

For me, novels coalesce into being, rather than arrive fully formed.

- David Mitchell

When Soundgarden formed, we were post-punk - pretty quirky.

- Chris Cornell

A person's character is but half formed till after wedlock.

- Charles Simmons

Being famous before you've formed your personality, before you have that self-esteem, is dangerous.

- Chris Evert

I guess I'd never formed any hard opinions of '80s fashion, other than that it was pretty outrageous, you know.

- Brendan Dooling

What birds can have their bills more peculiarly formed than the ibis, the spoonbill, and the heron?

- Alfred Russel Wallace