You can write anything you want to,--a six-act blank verse, symbolic tragedy or a vulgar short, short story. Just so that you… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
The institutions at the centre of capitalism are bigger than they've ever been, the pay is much greater, the ability of society… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
“It was a tragedy. A horrible tragedy. You can’t imagine the physical pain and despair I went through. I’m a better man… — Chris Knopf Copy Share Image
I think the true artist - musician, dancer, writer, actor - a true artist is able to sort of articulate pain and… — Black Thought Copy Share Image
“It is a national tragedy of incalculable proportions…What is wrong with the United States that it can provide the environment for such… — United Press International Copy Share Image
A person's tragedy does not make up their entire life. A story carves deep grooves into our brains each time we tell… — Amy Poehler Copy Share Image
The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives - the death of genuine feeling, the death… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
To each there comes in their lifetime a special moment when they are figuratively tapped on the shoulder and offered the chance… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The vagaries of the industry and show business itself would not lead one to conclude a lengthy career - because things change.… — Chris Stein Copy Share Image
The best way to prepare for a night out with a Shakespearean tragedy is to do a bit of reading up in… — Arthur Smith Copy Share Image
I always wanted to tell the story of how Pearl Jam is the story of lightning striking twice. As well as being… — Cameron Crowe Copy Share Image
“She knew for a fact that she wasn't going to sit around and wait for some miracle to happen. She wasn't going… — Diyar Harraz Copy Share Image
...she merely wished to find a way out of the maze. She knew that she had become a burden to him: she… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“How could it be? For weeks he'd run himself ragged, his only goal to keep her safe until the moment when he… — Lauren Kate Copy Share Image
The acts of the human race on the world's stage have doubtless a coherent unity, but the meaning of the vast tragedy… — Alfred de Vigny Copy Share Image
We who have grown up on a diet of honour and shame can still grasp what must seem unthinkable to people living… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“This tragedy demonstrates better than any classroom lesson that leaders can never let their emotions get the better of them. Cool heads… — Joelle Charbonneau Copy Share Image
Imagine, there is almost no possibility for a foreign language film to be distributed in America right now. That doesn't just make… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
“It isn't the big troubles in life that require character. Anybody can rise to a crisis and face a crushing tragedy with… — Jean Webster Copy Share Image
New York' is based on part of the political canvas of 9/11, but it speaks of prejudices after the great human tragedy.… — Kabir Khan Copy Share Image
The impact of the human tragedies I've reported on is that, more often than not, I'll be angry. I want to know… — John Pilger Copy Share Image
France is deeply upset to learn of the monstrous attacks that have just struck the United States… In these terrible circumstances, all… — Jacques Chirac Copy Share Image
On Thanksgiving I will stop to give thanks that my family is safe and healthy, especially because I realize that, following the… — Bobby Jindal Copy Share Image
The world is a mess. It seems that life gets harder on a personal level each and every day. Hug and kiss… — Kevin Nash Copy Share Image
A point has been reached where the peoples of the Americas must take cognizance of growing ill-will, of marked trends toward aggression,… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in such an inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
An unspeakable tragedy, confirmed to us by ABC News in New York City: John Lennon, outside of his apartment building on the… — Howard Cosell Copy Share Image
If it can be verified, we don't need faith... Faith is for that which lies on the other side of reason. Faith… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
A trauma is something one repeats and repeats, after all, and this is the tragedy of the Iqbals--that they can't help but… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
It is a tragedy, I feel, that people of a different sexual type are caught in a world which shows so little… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Australians are not given to applauding tragedy unless it is at a distance like Gallipoli or Cooper's Creek, and they prefer pure… — Geoffrey Dutton Copy Share Image
Why isn’t the fact that 100,000 women choose to end their pregnancies regarded as a national tragedy approaching the scale, say, of… — Tony Abbott Copy Share Image
It is the spectators, the people who are outside, looking at the tragedy, from whose ranks the skeptics come; it is not… — James Stewart Copy Share Image
Now, we have inscribed a new memory alongside those others. It's a memory of tragedy and shock, of loss and mourning. But… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
For life is terribly deficient in form. Its catastrophes happen in the wrong way and to the wrong people. There is a… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
All Americans should be deeply troubled by the fatal shootings of Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and Philando Castile in Falcon… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The alienation effect in German epic theater is achieved not only through the actors, but also through music (chorus and song) andsets… — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
whether they'll write the story of my life as a tragedy or an epic fantasy... I was wondering if it was going… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
I think it's sort of the hypothetical point where communism and fascism meet. They love tragedy, and they love surface beauty. You… — Emma Forrest Copy Share Image
One of the great tragedies of modern education is that most people are not taught to think critically. The majority of the… — Haki R. Madhubuti Copy Share Image
