Beyoncé and pathos are strangers. Amy Winehouse and pathos are flatmates, and you should see the kitchen. — Clive James Copy Share Image
I have found in black metal the lyrics are profoundly beautiful... a pathos and mythos at the same time. — Ryan Adams Copy Share Image
I am a big fan of the TV series 'Taxi' which combined comedy and pathos better than any other show I've seen. — Douglas Wood Copy Share Image
People talk of the pathos and failure of plain women; but it is a more terrible thing that a beautiful woman may… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Blaxploitation films were all about centering Black love, action, pathos and showing Black folks with agency. — Jason Johnson Copy Share Image
The trend towards pure art betrays not arrogance, as is often thought, but modesty. Art that has rid itself of human pathos… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
I think there's a thin line between pathos and comedy, and I'm not afraid of putting my heart on my sleeve. — John Bishop Copy Share Image
There is more or less of pathos in all true beauty. The delight it awakens has an indefinable, and, as it were,… — Henry Theodore Tuckerman Copy Share Image
For a wonderful physical tie binds the parents to the children; and - by some sad, strange irony - it does not… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Who can explain the secret pathos of Nature's loveliness? It is a touch of melancholy inherited from our mother Eve. It is… — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
Like his admirer Samuel Beckett, Johnson locates his voices among conditions of such deprivation that even the most miserable memories are gilded… — James Marcus Copy Share Image
German can take a lot more pathos than English can. When you say "pathetic" in English it's a disparaging term, but when… — Daniel Kehlmann Copy Share Image
It will startle you to see what slaves we are to by-gone times-to Death, if we give the matter the right word!… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
From the onset of the 'Live-Read' series, we wanted to hit all the major writers and Woody Allen is simply one of… — Jason Reitman Copy Share Image
The Giants are usually described as rag tag, kind of a great garage sale team, and the Democrats are described as the… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I think it would be exhausting and depressing, to write, to watch and to live, if it was just focused on drama.… — Jenji Kohan Copy Share Image
Either over neither, both over either/or, live-and-let-live over stand-or die, high spirits over low, energy over apathy, wit over dullness, jokes over… — Marvin Mudrick Copy Share Image
There's no doubt that I really have a feeling for the theater. These past few days it has occurred to me to… — Federico Garcia Lorca Copy Share Image
It is the specialist's task to talk about means, about centimeters. An artist's task is to talk about the goal, about kilometers,… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
Annoyance and pathos warred in my breast, and after a short struggle, annoyance punched pathos in the snout like the voracious shark… — Kate Elliott Copy Share Image
This is real human drama, we're not creating some amusement park ride for the summer. Even though the movie is really exciting… — John C. Reilly Copy Share Image
Pathos, piety, courage, they exist, but are identical, and so is filth. Everything exists, nothing has value. — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
His father watched him across the gulf of years and pathos which always must divide a father from his son. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have this soft spot for have-nots. So, I was really inclined to portray their pain and pathos in 'Highway.' — Randeep Hooda Copy Share Image
In the course of my life, I've made some happy songs but it's the more sort of like pathos-laden, emotional, melancholic music… — Moby Copy Share Image
The pathos of it all is that the America which is to be protected by a huge military force is not the… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
The crushing, pitiful, and frequently just plain risible pathos of an unsuccessful actor/performer's life is well charted. — Arabella Weir Copy Share Image
It is difficult for people to appreciate their own laughter unless you show them some pathos along the way. — Jackie Gleason Copy Share Image
And just as there are no words for the surface, that is, No words to say what it really is, that it… — John Ashbery Copy Share Image
We're all real people with moments of intense honesty and pathos and humanity. We all experience that, whether you're comedic or not. — Bob Odenkirk Copy Share Image
If you make a great film full of emotion, of pathos, people want to continue to know more, to work harder. — Pamela Yates Copy Share Image
Pathos activates the eyes and ears to see and hear. At times of pathos, illness opens doors to a reality which is… — Jean Houston Copy Share Image
The connection between pathos and broad comedy is very tight. But you do far more work in a comedy scene than you… — Jerry Lewis Copy Share Image
Humor and pathos, tears and laughter are, in the highest expression of human character and achievement, inseparable. — James Thurber Copy Share Image
English is much drier. You can get away with a lot less. Pathos, lyricism, these are things you have to tone down… — Daniel Kehlmann Copy Share Image
I'm drawn towards people who have a little pathos and a little dark side, and I feel the same towards fictional characters. — Lisa Hanawalt Copy Share Image
Pathos and poignancy are, to me, tactics and techniques; in my work as a writer, I fetch them from my toolbox and… — Michel Faber Copy Share Image
