I trained in Shakespeare, and that's all comedy, even when it's tragedy. — Olivia Thirlby Copy Share Image
Ultimately, tragedy on earth can only be understood rightly from the perspective of heaven. — David Platt Copy Share Image
Tragedies are about the depths that call up to certain men and insist that they descend. — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
The tragedy of the poor is that they can afford nothing but self denial. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“The tragedy of being; we believe all things but doubt the truth.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
In tragedy every moment is eternity; in comedy, eternity is a moment. — Christopher Fry Copy Share Image
“God knows whatever comes your way, in any given circumstance.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
“But sometimes, to enable her to bear her life, she needed the accompaniment of an inward music and she could not always… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
I've always been drawn to discomfort and that limbo of unease you get between comedy and tragedy. Making people laugh one moment… — Steve Coogan Copy Share Image
The tragedy of life, Howard, is not that the beautiful die young, but that they grow old and mean. It will not… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
Any design, any city, any kind of craziness or tragedy, it all comes from a long time of preparation. — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
I think comedy is drama, often. It's hard to have comedy over a period of time - commercials are one thing, but… — Gore Verbinski Copy Share Image
The villain in 'Call Me by Your Name' is the tragedy of love - what seems to be part of the deal… — Timothee Chalamet Copy Share Image
Tragedy stays alive by feeling what's been done to us, while peace comes alive by living with the results. — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
Everybody tries to take a tragedy and turn it to their own political purposes, and it's both sides. — Stan Van Gundy Copy Share Image
Youth is the season of tragedy and despair. Youth is the time when one's whole life is entangled in a web of… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
Preparation is not only about managing external risks, but about limiting the likelihood that you'll unwittingly add to them. When you're the… — Chris Hadfield Copy Share Image
“Either I’ve got a wart on my nose they find curious, or I’ve grown a tail, Albie Merani muttered to himself. Just… — Rw Rivers Copy Share Image
“Death is a tragedy whether it is the death of one girl-woman in London or seventy-seven men, women, and children in Norway.… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
Every time you have a crisis in a country you have an extreme wing coming up and proposing solutions. The way to… — Costa-Gavras Copy Share Image
Perhaps the inevitable tragedy of our complex civilization is that we must be specialists in our fields - and our fields have… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Laughter on American television has taken the place of the chorus in Greek tragedy. It is unrelenting; the news, the stock-exchange reports,… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
I think the big tragedy of the Cuban Revolution was that it became dependent on the Soviet Union, and it became dependent… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
What is was, it was a tragedy, Martha. It...Chris Stevens was one of our best. We lost three other brave Americans. I… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
Once you lose attachment to how you want things to be because you realize you don't control anything, there's a curiously liberating… — Daniele Bolelli Copy Share Image
The principle tragedy of my life is, like all tragedies, an irony of Destiny. I reject real life as if it were… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
When the riots happened in L.A., they didn't go to Beverly Hills to trash Rodeo Drive. They trashed their own neighborhoods. It's… — Samuel L. Jackson Copy Share Image
The British have an umbilical cord which has never been cut and through which tea flows constantly. It is curious to watch… — Marlene Dietrich 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
Such exceptional suffering and calamity, then, affecting the hero, and-we must now add-generally extending far and wide beyond him, so as to… — A. C. Bradley Copy Share Image
What we are trying to do at Virgin is not to have one enormous company in one sector under one banner, but… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image