I have spoken, and I was understood. It's not like I'm a tragic person who wasn't understood. All those books are in… — John Waters Copy Share Image
Only comedians can talk about death, life, God and Virgin Mary. If I was a tragic actor, I couldn't allow myself. But… — Roberto Benigni Copy Share Image
Job was the greatest of all the children of the east, and his afflictions were well-nigh more than he could bear; but… — Andrew Coyle Bradley Copy Share Image
Gordon Edgley's sudden death came as a shock to everyone - not least himself. One moment he was in his study, seven… — Derek Landy Copy Share Image
That's the nature of being a parent, Sabine has discovered. You'll love your children far more than you ever loved your parents,… — Ursula Hegi Copy Share Image
To me Vivien Leigh was a tragic heroine of classic proportions: chosen, blessed and abandoned by the gods. Obstinately she tried to… — Elaine Dundy Copy Share Image
“Prophetic pragmatism attempts to keep alive the sense of alternative ways of life and of struggle based on the best of the… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
There's no need to be tragic or destroy yourself or jump off a cliff. That's no longer the paradigm I wish to… — Mary Harron Copy Share Image
I consider myself fortunate that in my home, acting or the creative arts were a good option. This was a respected tour… — Sean Penn Copy Share Image
Even if you look at Iran, those campaigners for human rights there, they don't want to have anything to do with America,… — Yaroslav Trofimov Copy Share Image
Man is a tragic animal. Not because of his smallness, but because he is too well endowed. Man has longings and spiritual… — Peter Wessel Zapffe Copy Share Image
We talk eloquently about our commitment to the principles of Christianity, and yet our lives are saturated with the practices of paganism.… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Alas! the road to Anywhere is pitfalled with disaster; There's hunger, want, and weariness, yet O we loved it so! As on… — Robert W. Service Copy Share Image
We know that our life is essentially tragic. I'm absolutely not for handing over that very important department of our psyche to… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Our most tragic error may have been our inability to establish a rapport and a confidence with the press and television with… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
'Mr. Peanut' is not about a man who dreams of killing his wife; that's jacket copy, to me. 'Mr. Peanut' is about… — Adam Ross Copy Share Image
Man's destiny was no longer determined from 'above' by a super-human wisdom and will, but from 'below' by the sub-human agencies of… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
If the sexual revolution has been a medical disaster, socially it has been a catastrophe. Why do the media not report and… — Pat Buchanan Copy Share Image
There were some tragic cases of women whose love was abused, who for a certain time procured important documents or information, not… — Markus Wolf Copy Share Image
(2/2)Parents,Grandparents, aunts, uncles etc.Would be so much happier and can watch there friends and family grow up. If I had to sacrifice… — Jasmine Copy Share Image
We scientists, whose tragic destination has been to help in making the methods of annihilation more gruesome and more effective, must consider… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
All failed lovers rewrite the script, as if one sexual detail or another might have tipped the balance of pain into destiny,… — Jean-Henri Fabre Copy Share Image
The world has been tragic since the day Adam and Eve sinned in the garden. From that moment murder, mayhem and war… — Louie Giglio Copy Share Image
I believe that all the survivors are mad. One time or another their madness will explode. You cannot absorb that much madness… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
He took pains to avoid self-depreciation, self-mockery, ambiguity, irony, subtlety, vulnerability, a civilized world-weariness and a tragic sense of history--the very things,… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
We have no adequate conception of the perfection of the ancient tragic dance. The pleasure which the greeks received from it had… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
The thing I try to get across to the writers - and I do a lot of writing, too - is that… — Chris Rock Copy Share Image
Is it not tragic, for example, that while in the last World War almost everyone believed it was the war to end… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
Let's take my truck," Jim said as he hit the gravel. "Less noise." And it has a radio, right?" With tragic concentration… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
“People like to imagine that they get a girl who's been depressed, or confused, or desperate, and it's so romantic and exciting,… — Alison Umminger Copy Share Image
If I just got up in the morning and had no place to go and was retired or something, I would be… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
He's the best of us. The best of our best, the best that each of us will ever build or ever love.… — John Steakley Copy Share Image
“Signý knew she would die a thousand deaths upon seeing another woman with him, bearing his children, raising them with him. All… — Farrah Naseem Copy Share Image
For a year after that was done to me I wept every day at the same hour and for the same space… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Science is rooted in the will to truth. With the will to truth it stands or falls. Lower the standard even slightly… — Max Wertheimer Copy Share Image
Many consider that Shostakovich is the greatest 20th-century composer. In his 15 symphonies, 15 quartets, and in other works he demonstrated mastery… — Dmitri Shostakovich Copy Share Image
Susan Straight finds LA's secret heart in Between Heaven and Here and with a sleight of hand only the masters have, she… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
I was keenly aware that I didn't want to draw on too many typically doomed aspects of the fated singer. Whether it's… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
We're living through a time where we are fighting wars fostered by politics, admittedly not on the same scale as the First… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
Miss Grantham's sense of humour got the better of her at this point, and, tottering towards a chair, she sank into it,… — Georgette Heyer Copy Share Image
