To a nice ear, the quality of a voice is singularly affecting. Its depth seems to be allied to feeling; at least,… — Henry Theodore Tuckerman Copy Share Image
Pathos truly is the mode for the pessimist. But tragedy requires a nicer balance between what is possible and what is impossible.… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
And just as there are no words for the surface, that is, No words to say what it really is, that it… — John Ashbery Copy Share Image
Originally, I thought, 'Gollum's such a fantastic character, why are you doing him CG? Surely you need to be able to humanise… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
German can take a lot more pathos than English can. When you say "pathetic" in English it's a disparaging term, but when… — Daniel Kehlmann Copy Share Image
I have found in black metal the lyrics are profoundly beautiful... a pathos and mythos at the same time. — Ryan Adams Copy Share Image
Art, not less eloquently than literature, teaches her children to venerate the single eye. Remember Matsys. His representations of miser-life are breathing.… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
Photography is an elegiac art, a twilight art. Most subjects photographed are, just by virtue of being photographed, touched with pathos. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
It is the specialist's task to talk about means, about centimeters. An artist's task is to talk about the goal, about kilometers,… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
This is real human drama, we're not creating some amusement park ride for the summer. Even though the movie is really exciting… — John C. Reilly Copy Share Image
“The more we listen to the voices of others, voices unlike our own, the more we remain open to the transcendent forces… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
It will startle you to see what slaves we are to by-gone times-to Death, if we give the matter the right word!… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
I cannot help feeling there is something essentially wrong about love. Friends may quarrel or drift apart, close relations too, but there… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
There is more or less of pathos in all true beauty. The delight it awakens has an indefinable, and, as it were,… — Henry Theodore Tuckerman Copy Share Image
There is a form of poetic and esthetic and moral genius necessary to make philosophical issues truly incandesce for students, and even… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
The connection between pathos and broad comedy is very tight. But you do far more work in a comedy scene than you… — Jerry Lewis Copy Share Image
The particular qualities and intentions of photographs tend to be swallowed up in the generalized pathos of time past. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“She clapped her hands and murmured, "Blue sky, blue eyes," as if it amused her. While we snuggled down there out of… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
The true and lasting genius of humour does not drag you thus to boxes labelled 'pathos,' 'humour,' and show you all the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I really like the stuff that is very absurd and very real at the same time. I think Anton Chekhov is the… — Rainn Wilson Copy Share Image
English is much drier. You can get away with a lot less. Pathos, lyricism, these are things you have to tone down… — Daniel Kehlmann Copy Share Image
Successful prime-time television of any genre produces some kind of emotional reaction in the viewers. There are a lot of different emotions… — Chris Hayes Copy Share Image
The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
