“Then in the spring something happened to me. Yes, I remember. I fell in love with James Tyrone and was so happy… — Eugene O'Neill Copy Share Image
I think classical music tuition is, well, was when I was a child, was an abomination. I think in some ways it… — Hugh Laurie Copy Share Image
The basis of tragedy is man's helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man's helplessness against vanity (the… — Dawn Powell Copy Share Image
Perhaps his tragedy is that he is the one normal writer left on earth and it is this that adds to his… — Malcolm Lowry Copy Share Image
I think the ties to slavery and the terrible tragedy that followed the Civil War with Jim Crow and racial violence is… — William R. Ferris Copy Share Image
Comedy, I imagine, is harder to do consistently than tragedy, but I like it spiced in the wine of sadness. — Bernard Malamud Copy Share Image
“There is beauty in the midst of tragedy. As if beauty were condensing in the heart of ugliness. It's very strange.” — Hélène Berr Copy Share Image
Dinner at the Huntercombes possessed only two dramatic features: the wine was a farce and the food a tragedy — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
Today, a young person that doesn't know themselves will totally be sold some other situation. Let's do your avatar. You know? And… — Chuck D Copy Share Image
On the golf course, a man may be the dogged victim of inexorable fate, be struck down by an appalling stroke of… — Bobby Jones Copy Share Image
When I step back from any moment of crisis that I've ever had, I'm always struck by how humor and tragedy can… — Peter Vack Copy Share Image
As a nation we've been faced with so many tragedies since the beginning of this Millennium and I believe we have even… — Oleta Adams Copy Share Image
This familiarity with a respected physician and my appreciation of his work, or the tragedy I experienced with the long, tormented agony… — Albert Claude Copy Share Image
Some of the critics viewed Vietnam as a morality play in which the wicked must be punished before the final curtain and… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
Conflict is the basis of drama. I guess that goes back as long as time has existed as far as mankind is… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
I come from a very expressive family, so it's really not surprising that we became actors. There was a lot of real-life… — John Turturro Copy Share Image
Every life is a tragedy, but far more the writer's life, because the more he has to see, the more deeply he… — Gabrielle Roy Copy Share Image
I've only made short films and two features, which are very different. One is a surreal comedy, and the other is a… — Sophie Barthes Copy Share Image
That humankind has fallen into the insanity of concensus trance, and lost touch with our true possibilities and functions is a tragedy. — Charles Tart Copy Share Image
Risk is the inevitable product of liberty - and it's responsible not only for great tragedy, but also great triumph. — Tony Snow Copy Share Image
Could we have avoided the tragedy of Hiroshima? Could we have started the atomic age with clean hands? No one knows. No… — Edward Teller Copy Share Image
“Even the most comic moment contains an element of melancholy; even the deepest tragedy harbors a trace of the ironic.” — Christine Montross Copy Share Image
Easter is not limited to the passion and death of Christ; it also includes the dismal tragedy of life unlived by the… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
The great political tragedy of our time is that conservative leaders in America have chosen to use their superior messaging and political… — Joseph J. Romm Copy Share Image
“The tragedy of life is that it comes just once and before you know it, it is gone. Since life comes just… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
I don't doubt that God can bring good out of tragedies, but the Bible is clear that God is not the author… — Tony Campolo Copy Share Image
The tragedy of marriage is that while all women marry thinking that their man will change, all men marry believing their wife… — Len Deighton Copy Share Image
People marry for a variety of reasons and with varying results. But to marry for love is to invite inevitable tragedy. — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
“It is not often that I have two options to choose from. It is nice to be compelled towards something, otherwise one… — Faiqa Mansab Copy Share Image
The candle glimmers but an hour. The night Looms in its ancient hunger. Would you know The tragedy of human love and… — George Sterling Copy Share Image
I've been very fortunate. I've been in theater, films, television, radio, tragedy, comedy, farce - I've been in a musical and in… — Donald Sinden Copy Share Image
In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We should not take a Memorial Day recess until we pass a proper memorial for the slain students in Littleton, Colorado, and… — John Conyers Copy Share Image
Teenagers too often have to deal with loss and death. You had to cope with the untimely death of your brother; how… — Andrew Shue Copy Share Image
A pornographic novelist is one who exploits the sexual instinct as a prostitute does. A legitimate sex novel elucidates it or brings… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
When your first marriage goes into tragedy, you become very battle-scarred... I even thought of suicide. Luckily, I had known some happy… — Paul Engle Copy Share Image
It is the tragedy of the world that no one knows what he doesn't know - and the less a man knows,… — Joyce Cary Copy Share Image
Yes, there was an element of abstraction and unreality in misfortune. But when an abstraction starts to kill you, you have to… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
We all know what tragedy is. "Yes, I'd rather not have any more tragedy, please. I'll have comedy, please." Comedy, in the… — Eric Drooker Copy Share Image
