A father's death is the most important event, the more heartbreaking and poignant loss in a man's life. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Smell brings to mind... a family dinner of pot roast and sweet potatoes during a myrtle-mad August in a Midwestern town. Smells… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I want to die at a hundred years old with an American flag on my back and the star of Texas on… — Lance Armstrong Copy Share Image
Barack Obama's official nomination as the Democratic Party's standard-bearer was a very poignant moment for millions of Americans. As the first non-white… — Chuck Todd Copy Share Image
'Baskets' is incredible - 'Baskets' is so funny and poignant and sad and dark. — Thomas Middleditch Copy Share Image
So in the end, was it worth it? Jesus Christ. How irreparably changed my life has become. It's always the last day… — George Jung Copy Share Image
The love you have for your kids is so overwhelmingly powerful that it alters your perspective. The dark things going on in… — James Mercer Copy Share Image
It is in general true that in order to create works of art one has to have leisure. On the other hand… — Marianne Moore Copy Share Image
I think the most important thing journalism taught me is to mine for details. The details are key. You can't try to… — Karen Abbott Copy Share Image
Confined to common life thy numbers flow, And neither soar too high nor sink too low; There strength and ease in graceful… — Aulus Persius Flaccus Copy Share Image
I think one of the most poignant things is unrequited love and loneliness. — Wilbur Smith Copy Share Image
Kaethe Schwehn's poignant memoir explores longing, both spiritual and physical, community and faith, in prose that is calm, lovely, and filled with… — Dinty W. Moore Copy Share Image
You constantly have to take inventory, not get on someone else's agenda. You want to write something that's poignant and moves people. — Dion DiMucci Copy Share Image
Among all the tragic consequences of depression and war, this suppression of personal self-expression through one's life work is among the most… — Henry Wriston Copy Share Image
Blood Dazzler is Patricia Smith's impassioned lyric chronicle of a beloved city in peril, a city whose people were left to die… — Carolyn Forche Copy Share Image
The histories of our two peoples, Palestinian and South African, correspond in such painful and poignant ways, that I intensely feel myself… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Art, music, and philosophy are merely poignant examples of what we might have been had not the priests and traders gotten hold… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
With that, the poignant charm vanished. Inside the fifth machine, all was rampant malignity. Deformed flowers thrust monstrous horned tusks and trumpets… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
Poetry, I think, intensifies the reader's experience. If it's a humorous facet of the story, poetry makes it more exuberant. If it's… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
There’s something very freeing about losing the anchors that have always defined you. Frightening, sad, but exhilarating in a poignant way, as… — Deborah Smith Copy Share Image
That to me was the most poignant part of Diana's wedding; as she was walking up the aisle and her eyes were… — Bruce Oldfield Copy Share Image
From Kelsey, I have learned among many other things the value of turning on a dime and how you can have an… — David Hyde Pierce Copy Share Image
