Mystical power, as you know, has a whole different flavor to it. It's much more raucous at times; it's much more poignant… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Industrial societies turn their citizens into image-junkies; it is the most irresistible form of mental pollution. Poignant longings for beauty, for an… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“I hate these affairs", he'd told her once, tearing up an engraved invitation to an exclusive charity ball. "They're the worst kind… — Melinda Cross Copy Share Image
What we set out to do with this movie [Leaves of Grass] was to create something that was funny and serious and… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
More poignant for us, at Laetoli in Tanzania are the companionable footprints of three real hominids, probably Australopithecus afarensis, walking together 3.6… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
For a gay chap, Elton John writes some of the most amazing lyrics about heterosexual love. — Cailleach Bheur Copy Share Image
Merrie Destefano storms the world of urban fantasy with AFTERLIFE, breathing new life into the vast genre of the undead. Gritty, poignant,… — Tosca Lee Copy Share Image
“Nobody here wants to be awful," he said. He hopped a little as he zipped up. "It's just nobody here knows all… — Daniel Woodrell Copy Share Image
“Of all the agonies of life, that which is most poignant and harrowing- that which for the time annihilates all reason and… — William Henry Bulwer Copy Share Image
If you’re really listening, if you’re awake to the poignant beauty of the world, your heart breaks regularly. — Andrew Harvey Copy Share Image
Next to him lay his violin, trampled, an eerily poignant little corpse. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
“I’m not sure. But there’s something about the darkness, the stillness of this hour, I think, that creates a language of its… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
At a period when Literature was wont to attribute the grief of living exclusively to the mischances of disappointed love or the… — Joris-Karl Huysmans Copy Share Image
Memory's so treacherous. One moment you're lost in a carnival of delights with poignant childhood aromas, the flashing neon on puberty, all… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
Nobody wants to be depressed - everybody's trying to feel better; when they strive and fail, it's all the more poignant. — Joel Kinnaman Copy Share Image
There is a natural rhythm to parent-child interactions, including the fact that some parental insights prove poignant and veridical decades after they… — Gad Saad Copy Share Image
Fairy tale does not deny the existence of sorrow and failure: the possibility of these is necessary to the joy of deliverance.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We sat down and told stories that happened to us in our childhood, to our children. They were all basically based on… — Howie Mandel Copy Share Image
I think I give far more space and play to avant-garde writing than any other contemporary textbook author. I want students to… — David Starkey Copy Share Image
Grief is only the memory of widowed affection. The more intense the delight in the presence of the object, the more poignant… — James Martineau Copy Share Image
There are loads of players I could name who are 16-16 looked like world beaters but then at 21-22 they are subs… — Rio Ferdinand Copy Share Image
I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others--young clerks in the dusk, wasting the most poignant moments of night… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
