Longing becomes more poignant if in the distance you can't tell whether your friend is going away or coming back. The pushing… — Coleman Barks Copy Share Image
Vividly imagined, beautifully written, at times almost unbearably suspenseful-the stories in Kristiana Kahakauwila's debut collection, This Is Paradise, are boldly inventive in… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Maybe it’s not, in the end, the virtues of others that so wrenches our hearts as it is the sense of almost… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
I find it amusing on one level, poignant on another, when people try to get recognition from an outside source. It's sad. — Grace Slick Copy Share Image
A few Disney TV composers had me pinch-hit writing some scoring cues to picture. Disney tapped me to be the composer for… — Danny Jacob Copy Share Image
Songs are great. I love songs. I sing them in the shower sometimes. They can be poignant or cheery or angry, and… — Russell Smith Copy Share Image
Love at a distance may be poignant; it is also idealized. Contact, more than separation, is the test of attachment. — Ilka Chase Copy Share Image
As soon as you opened your mouth and said the word woman, you were beaten down with the argument that you were… — Alice Schwarzer Copy Share Image
...we have more faith in what we imitate than in what we originate. We cannot derive a sense of absolute certitude from… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
Hiroshima”, I find a few of the lines to be very poignant yet hopeful. These lines are: “But in Hiroshima, some people… — Sarah Kay Copy Share Image
From inside where I live, I feel like I just perceive events in a certain rational way. I often find it sad… — Madeline Kahn Copy Share Image
Medicine may be the lens through which I see the world, but since I think of medicine as 'life +', a place… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
Visit Cape Town and history is never far from your grasp. It lingers in the air, a scent on the breezy, an… — Tahir Shah Copy Share Image
I looked, and had an acute pleasure in looking,--a precious yet poignant pleasure; pure gold, with a steely point of agony: a… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
I just love the days when you come out of the archives with half a dozen excellent descriptions or poignant accounts of… — Antony Beevor Copy Share Image
The niceties of existence were not a matter of concern, yet everything around was closed down most of the time. If you… — Paul Samuelson Copy Share Image
Everything about 'Hugo' to me is poignant, from the broken orphan to the old man losing his past to the fragility of… — John Logan Copy Share Image
It was, when I read it, I thought, such a beautiful script. I loved the story. I thought it was well handled.… — Jennifer Connelly Copy Share Image
Failure is life at it's most poignant and it's only there to push you in the right direction. — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
“Seulement la terre qui obéit, sait bien qu'elle tourne en rond, tandis que nous vers l'infini nous précipitons. Translation: But the obedient… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
I've gotten literally thousands of contacts from people across the country - and the most poignant ones being elderly people - who… — Benjamin Carson Copy Share Image
If you're not fascinated by Korea yet, you damn well should be. The most innovative country on earth deserves a hilarious and… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
Rachael Sage is a marvelous young artist- and I am a fan!! 'Haunted by You' has a beauty that shines through her… — Judy Collins Copy Share Image
“You might, without my crediting it, fall deeply in love and forever, with some warped hunchback whelped in the gutter. I should… — Dorothy Dunnett Copy Share Image
