I find life a mix of humor and pathos, and all my books reflect that to one degree or another. — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
The eye of genius has always a plaintive expression, and its natural language is pathos. — Lydia M. Child Copy Share Image
At their best, Marvel superhero movies have pathos, ideological battles and high-emotional stakes. — Jason Johnson Copy Share Image
The pathos of man is that he hungers for personal fulfillment and for a sense of community with others. — Jay Saunders Redding Copy Share Image
Even if we should find another Eden, we would not be fit to enjoy it perfectly nor stay in it forever. — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
I like to play characters that get to do it all - to have a bit of comedy here and a bit… — Michael Shannon Copy Share Image
To a nice ear, the quality of a voice is singularly affecting. Its depth seems to be allied to feeling; at least,… — Henry Theodore Tuckerman Copy Share Image
The sickly cultural pathos which the whole of France indulges in, that fetishism of the cultural heritage. — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
“Nowadays the standards had plummeted so far that I failed even at being a failure. I silently packed up. Nothing else was… — Arthur Nersesian Copy Share Image
Originally, I thought, 'Gollum's such a fantastic character, why are you doing him CG? Surely you need to be able to humanise… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
I never met Barbara Cartland. But now that I'm working on her life, I wish I had. I think there was a… — Mel Smith Copy Share Image
With the passage of years, not all of Dicken's readers remained infatuated with his pathos. One generation's sublimity became another generation's kitsch. — Peter Gay Copy Share Image
Most of my films - if you look at the tone, apart from 'Shadows,' which is straight-up comedy - the tone is… — Taika Waititi Copy Share Image
Maybe what life needs is a good soundtrack, especially during the long stretches when nothing interesting is being said. A soundtrack might… — Jonathan Hull Copy Share Image
There is reason to smile and celebrate when you win, but when you struggle, that is about laughter. That is the pathos… — Ronnie Apteker Copy Share Image
The Mathematician's Shiva is a brilliant and compelling family saga full of warmth, pathos, history, and humor, not to mention a cast… — Jonathan Evison Copy Share Image
All perfect things are saddening in effect. The autumn wood robed in its scarlet clothes, The matchless tinting on the royal rose… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
This is a man with an old face, always old... There was pathos, in his face, and in his eyes. The early… — Edgar Lee Masters Copy Share Image
[Heraclitus had] the highest form of pride [stemming] from a certainty of belief in the truth as grasped by himself alone. He… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
'The Night Cafe' and 'The Starry Night' still emit such pathos, density, and intensity that they send shivers down the spine. Whether… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
The mere existence of 'Buffy' proves the declinists wrong about one thing: Hollywood commercialism can produce great art. Complex and evolving characters.… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
Some form of gnosis or immediacy is attached to all thinking as its root-form or primitive origination; every act of thinking has… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
It is a nostalgic time right now, and photographs actively promote nostalgia. Photography is an elegiac art, a twilight art. Most subjects… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“In 1881, being on a visit to Boston, my wife and I found ourselves in the Parker House with the Ingersoll 's,… — Moncure Daniel Conway Copy Share Image
One of the things the police officers told us in the first minutes of being with them is that the way that… — Kristin Lehman Copy Share Image
There is a form of poetic and esthetic and moral genius necessary to make philosophical issues truly incandesce for students, and even… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
So many things suddenly made sense for the clowns, for the whole idea. I’d been going through a struggle, particularly after 9/11;… — Cindy Sherman Copy Share Image
“Definition: a pathocracy isfrom Greek pathos, “feeling, pain, suffering”; and kratos, “rule.” A totalitarian form of government in which absolute political power… — Cara St.Louis Copy Share Image
The ideological are individuals ultimately swamped by the complexities of modern life and political and economic relations; they have deliberately attached themselves… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image