She was stronger alone; and her own good sense so well supported her, that her firmness was as unshaken, her appearance of… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
You can bring truth to anything, whether it's a dance movie or an incredibly poignant indie drama or a really broad comedy.… — Josh Peck Copy Share Image
Coming back in that AFC Championship Game against the Steelers, that was a poignant moment for me for a lot of reasons… — Drew Bledsoe Copy Share Image
Dreadful is a poignant biography of a forgotten man who drank himself to death. It's a brilliant evocation of a self-hating gay… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
The histories of our two peoples, Palestinian and South African, correspond in such painful and poignant ways, that I intensely feel myself… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
The love you have for your kids is so overwhelmingly powerful that it alters your perspective. The dark things going on in… — James Mercer Copy Share Image
Poetry, I think, intensifies the reader's experience. If it's a humorous facet of the story, poetry makes it more exuberant. If it's… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
Longing becomes more poignant if in the distance you can't tell whether your friend is going away or coming back. The pushing… — Coleman Barks Copy Share Image
Maybe it’s not, in the end, the virtues of others that so wrenches our hearts as it is the sense of almost… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
May Sarton said, "the deeper you go, the more universal you become." It's a reminder to me that those things I try… — Sabrina Ward Harrison Copy Share Image
More poignant for us, at Laetoli in Tanzania are the companionable footprints of three real hominids, probably Australopithecus afarensis, walking together 3.6… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
At a period when Literature was wont to attribute the grief of living exclusively to the mischances of disappointed love or the… — Joris-Karl Huysmans Copy Share Image
“This here is your inheritance, says the senior partner. Yes, he says, Ludwig, I know, and stows the plan for the bathing… — Jenny Erpenbeck Copy Share Image
Except two breeds - the stupid and the narrowly feline - all women have a touch of the Lesbian: an assertion all… — Mary MacLane Copy Share Image
Art and the triumph of the human spirit - the two combined thrill me. It's the "Braveheart" moment, the stuff Joseph Campbell… — Kristin Bauer van Straten Copy Share Image
Raw and delicate, poignant and poetic, Shelby Smoak’s Bleeder exposes the sorrow and sometimes sweetness of coming to age with HIV. In… — Jenny Boully Copy Share Image
Songs are great. I love songs. I sing them in the shower sometimes. They can be poignant or cheery or angry, and… — Russell Smith Copy Share Image
It was, when I read it, I thought, such a beautiful script. I loved the story. I thought it was well handled.… — Jennifer Connelly Copy Share Image
I think the most important thing journalism taught me is to mine for details. The details are key. You can't try to… — Karen Abbott Copy Share Image
I may as well tell you, here and now, that if you are going about the place thinking things pretty, you will… — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
The niceties of existence were not a matter of concern, yet everything around was closed down most of the time. If you… — Paul Samuelson Copy Share Image
Kaethe Schwehn's poignant memoir explores longing, both spiritual and physical, community and faith, in prose that is calm, lovely, and filled with… — Dinty W. Moore Copy Share Image
Rachael Sage is a marvelous young artist- and I am a fan!! 'Haunted by You' has a beauty that shines through her… — Judy Collins Copy Share Image
Medicine may be the lens through which I see the world, but since I think of medicine as 'life +', a place… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
People are unhappy because they don't understand life; by happy, I mean complete, aware, conscious, poignant, caring, loving, unaffected, cosmic, simplistic, humble,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I've gotten literally thousands of contacts from people across the country - and the most poignant ones being elderly people - who… — Benjamin Carson Copy Share Image
I bow in reverence before the emotions of every melted heart…The more intense the delight in their presence, the more poignant the… — James Martineau Copy Share Image
From Kelsey, I have learned among many other things the value of turning on a dime and how you can have an… — David Hyde Pierce Copy Share Image
“We all have the best laid plans for our children, and they go and ruin it all by growing up any way… — Kristina Riggle Copy Share Image
“Of all the agonies of life, that which is most poignant and harrowing- that which for the time annihilates all reason and… — William Henry Bulwer Copy Share Image
That to me was the most poignant part of Diana's wedding; as she was walking up the aisle and her eyes were… — Bruce Oldfield Copy Share Image
I think it's poignant and powerful, this idea that if someone knows your name, they have the ability to kind of hail… — Katie Kitamura Copy Share Image
If you think about people's lives, you think about what's significant. And the things I find significant in my life are not… — Patrick Wang Copy Share Image
A richly detailed, poignant, and utterly fascinating look into another culture and how it is cross-pollinated by our own. It brings to… — T.C. Boyle Copy Share Image
Consolation indiscreetly pressed upon us, when we are suffering undue affliction, only serves to increase our pain, and to render our grief… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
My songs are all about celebrating poignant music. While some of them focus on fun and revelry, they are fortunately backed by… — Kailash Kher Copy Share Image
If I am content to heal a hurt slightly, saying "Peace, peace," where is no peace; if I forget the poignant word… — Amy Carmichael Copy Share Image
Whatever else be lost among the years, Let us keep Christmas still a shining thing: Whatever doubts assail us, or what fears,… — Grace Noll Crowell Copy Share Image
I've always chosen the roles that aren't the direct lead because I like being a very poignant character in the story, rather… — Chloe Grace Moretz Copy Share Image
“He and I had already had our time, and though it was still very close and real to me, as beautiful and… — Paula McLain Copy Share Image
