The world really changed after 9/11, not just in the tragic way, but in every way. So it took me a couple… — Albert Brooks Copy Share Image
My tutors at drama school commended and criticised my use of comedy in my acting for a long time at drama school.… — John Bradley-West Copy Share Image
the true art of the gods is the comic. The comic is a condescension of the divine to the world of man;… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
Where hunger is imposed by external circumstances, the act of starvation remains literal, a tragic biological event that does not serve metaphoric… — Kim Chernin Copy Share Image
How tragic it is that so often we stop everything just as we reach the starting line. We must move past the… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Just trying to tell the truth about, you know, the struggle of - being alive is funny, it's just inherently tragic and… — Judd Apatow Copy Share Image
“Isolation, for him, had become a basic sine qua non for existence and loneliness, his sole companion like a perfectly faithful twin.… — Faraaz Kazi Copy Share Image
The world owes its enchantment to these curious creatures and their fancies; but its multiple complicity rejects them. Thistledown spirits, tragic, heartrending… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
It is tragic that we have lost one of our nation's finest actors in the prime of his life. Heath Ledger's diverse… — Kevin Rudd Copy Share Image
Michael Brown's tragic death has revealed a deep distrust between some in the Ferguson community and its police force. It also developed… — Eric Holder Copy Share Image
Between "just desserts" and "tragic irony" we are given quite a lot of scope for our particular talent. Generally speaking, things have… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Cuba cannot go back to capitalism; we know all the tragic experience that it has generated for Latin America and the world.… — Alejandro Castro Espin Copy Share Image
Yes, I have four children. Four children with whom I spend a good part of every day: bathing them, combing their hair,… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
“It was tragic how life had sucked her down to the bones, all her spontaneity her laughter and freedom had vanished. I… — Belinda Jeffrey Copy Share Image
There are two extremes to be avoided: one is the attitude of contempt toward education, the other is the tragic snobbery of… — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
Shakespeare's idea of the tragic fact is larger than this idea and goes beyond it; but it includes it, and it is… — Andrew Coyle Bradley Copy Share Image
Maybe one of the monsters ate him," Daphne whimpered. "That would be awesome," Puck said. Sabrina flashed him an angry look. "Awesome… — Michael Buckley Copy Share Image
It is very sad about Michael Jackson, much as in the tragic cases of Heath Ledger, Anna Nicole and other celebrities who… — Grace Park Copy Share Image
It would be especially tragic if the people who most cherish ideals of peace, who are most anxious for political cooperation on… — Lester B. Pearson Copy Share Image
A society, in the process of moving forward, often appears to be tearing itself apart. Certainly, an age of rapid change, such… — Earl Warren Copy Share Image
Acting is the great love of my life. It gives you permission to use all parts of yourself. Permission to be the… — Blake Griffin Copy Share Image
You have to be kind of alerted to the fact that clowns are scary and then you can't look at them the… — Reece Shearsmith Copy Share Image
Dogs have fleas; people have each other. We are born to die. Life is a continuing tragic comedy. Everything and everyone we… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Man's inhumanity to man is as old as humanity itself. Some people just do evil things. Most do not. A billion people… — Kurt Sutter Copy Share Image
I don't react to a tragic happening any more. I took so many bad things as a kid and some people think… — Mike Tyson Copy Share Image
There are a lot of problems in the world, a lot of tragic things that have to be addressed, economic, medical, political,… — Dean Stockwell Copy Share Image
At Harvard I was taking an African-American studies class, and we were reading about the tragic mulatto. Invariably, the tragic mulatto can't… — Soledad O'Brien Copy Share Image
As we all know, the objective and mission of the photojournalist is to show us the reality of the world. And in… — Alfredo Jaar Copy Share Image
For myself music definitely informs my emotions. And I can literally play a song that will get me where I need to… — Queen Latifah Copy Share Image
“You want me to be a tragic backdrop so that you can appear to be illuminated, so that people can say ‘Wow,… — Warsan Shire Copy Share Image
United have spent all season commemorating the 50th anniversary of Busby's decision to defy the Football League and take the club on… — Andy Hunter Copy Share Image
For one thing, I want gesture-any kind of gesture, all kinds of gesture-gentle or brutal, joyous or tragic; the gesture of space… — Elaine de Kooning Copy Share Image
I know that you're selfish, selfish beyond words, and I know that you haven't the nerve of a rabbit, I know you're… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
As long as there have been men and they have lived, they have all felt this tragic ambiguity of their condition, but… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
The only equivalent plunge from genius I could think of was Ernest Hemmingway's tragic loss of ability to write. Hemmingway got up… — Ian Wooldridge Copy Share Image
The next time I write a play - in order to get audience trust for a particular sort of tragic line, I'll… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
I think a couple things, I mean, you know, the tragic death of Matthew Shepard occurred in Wyoming. Colorado and Wyoming are… — John Hickenlooper Copy Share Image
I am secretly afraid of animals… I think it is because of the usness in their eyes, with the underlying not-usness which… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
Guys don't adapt as well as women do to getting their heart broken for the first time. It's tragic. I really wanted… — Jamie Foxx Copy Share Image
The end of Students for a Democratic Society is viewed by me and a lot of other people as a terrible sorry… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
