“Precision is a precise art. Poignancy is pre-eminent and precludes prevarication.” — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
The sages say that life is illusion, but does that change its poignancy? — Ming-Dao Deng Copy Share Image
There is nothing like wounded affection for giving poignancy to anger. — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
Disharmony that comes from circumstances that are valid has tension, poignancy, quality, and beauty. — Robert Venturi Copy Share Image
To all that he touched he gave a new meaning, a new color, a new outline, a new loveliness, and a new… — Frederick Delius Copy Share Image
There's no beauty without poignancy and there's no poignancy without the feeling that it's going, men, names, books, houses--bound for dust--mortal-- — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Wit generally succeeds more from being happily addressed than from its native poignancy. A jest, calculated to spread at a gaming-table, may… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
No image, however accomplished, could have captured the agonizing poignancy of that moment. It was a moment to be lived, not framed,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I'd never understood why anyone would want to live forever. It had always seemed to me that death lent life a certain… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
If you want to reach any kind of poignancy or meaning a lot of times, coming from comedy is the best way… — Matthew Weiner Copy Share Image
A tattoo is a true poetic creation, and is always more than meets the eye. As a tattoo is grounded on living… — V. Vale Copy Share Image
As we grow old, we become aware that death is drawing near; his shadow falls across our path; the realities of life… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
Women sometimes seem to share a quiet, unalterable dogma of persecution that endows even the most sophisticated of them with the inarticulate… — Zelda Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“He generally spoke with much animation and energy, and with considerable gesture. His mind was filled with all the learning and precedence… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
The message is one of the beautiful things about the film. And I think part of the appeal is simply that they… — John Leguizamo Copy Share Image
“Some are born rich While others poor; Some are born free While others captives; Some are born blessed While others deprived; Some… — Emmanuel Aghado Copy Share Image
Full-color images lack the poignancy of monochrome... Black-and-white film inherently peels off interesting images from the world; it sees things we do… — Peter C Bunnell Copy Share Image
...Although, as the Latin verb to educate, educate, indicates, it is not a question of putting something in but drawing it out,… — Martha Graham Copy Share Image
Every moment is utterly unique and will not be continued in eternity. This fact gives life its poignancy and should concentrate your… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
It was the last time she’d see the river from that window. The last time of anything has the poignancy of death… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
I am easily moved to tears and rarely survive a visit to the cinema without shedding them, racked, as I am, by… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
There was nothing the matter with me that was not also the matter with everyone else. I was not as interesting as… — J. D. Daniels Copy Share Image
“The scene sucker-punched Max. He never saw it coming. It encapsulated in one poignant instant the tragic beauty of his family history.” — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
But grace can be the experience of a second wind, when even though what you want is clarity and resolution, what you… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Pathos and poignancy are, to me, tactics and techniques; in my work as a writer, I fetch them from my toolbox and… — Michel Faber Copy Share Image
The poignancy of a photograph comes from looking back to a fleeting moment in a floating world. The transitoriness is what creates… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
“Why was he in this state? Or perhaps the question was why had he not always been in this state? Why had… — Edward St. Aubyn Copy Share Image
There are many facts within fiction. This captivating story provides invaluable insights into the childhood of a girl who has Asperger’s syndrome.… — Tony Attwood Copy Share Image
Truth is not only stranger than fiction, it is more telling. To know that a thing actually happened gives it a poignancy,… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Reading Claire Cooks novel is like eating some exotic dish about which you say, Wow, this is great! Whats in it? The… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
sometimes in comedy you can make the audience feel poignancy stronger than you can with tears or anguish. — Shelley Winters Copy Share Image
Beauty in a woman is a moving thing, Yet sometimes just the patient lack of it Will pierce the heart to deeper… — Donald Evans Copy Share Image
“At the opera, the music makes no sense; here in the street it has just the right demented touch to give it… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“Every moment is utterly unique and will not be continued in eternity. This fact gives life its poignancy and should concentrate your… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The narrative of so many fairy tales are timeless in so many different cultures, and they have been since the dawn of… — Lily Cole Copy Share Image
I find poignancy in the moments when a person realizes that she has made mistakes. I am not as interested in the… — Dana Spiotta Copy Share Image
There is a poignancy in all things clear, In the stare of the deer, in the ring of a hammer in the… — Richard Wilbur Copy Share Image
I've always been obsessed with penetrating the female psyche. When I shoot, I'm like a tornado. I never sit down, never take… — Joyce Tenneson Copy Share Image
