The essence of a tragedy, or even of a serious play, is the spiritual awakening, or regeneration, of the hero. — Maxwell Anderson Copy Share Image
I just always wrote songs as a side hobby. So it was sort of a natural thing to write comedy songs. But… — Kyle Dunnigan Copy Share Image
I think it is not very difficult to discern by the duties and converses of Christians, what frames their spirits are under.… — John Flavel Copy Share Image
A cough is a symptom, not a disease. Take it to your doctor and he can give you something serious to worry… — Robert Morley Copy Share Image
Humor is a serious thing. I like to think of it as one of our greatest earliest natural resources, which must be… — James Thurber Copy Share Image
I've certainly played games that provoked a real emotional response or serious thought processes. — Bryan Lee O'Malley Copy Share Image
Going through these academic programs, your job really is to learn how to be a therapist. They're training you to sit in… — Kelly Carlin-McCall Copy Share Image
I always thought that I could write a novel. In my case, it was misguided. I do believe that the best nonfiction… — Ron Rosenbaum Copy Share Image
Acting is fun. I enjoy it, but there is just not many opportunities to do it on a serious level. It is… — Thomston Copy Share Image
When I did a serious role in 'Koshish,' people said that I didn't look good. — Asrani Copy Share Image
Abnegation produces deeply serious people. People who automatically see things like need,” he says. “I’ve noticed that when people switch to Dauntless,… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
Obstinacy and heat in argument are surest proofs of folly. Is there anything so stubborn, obstinate, disdainful, contemplative, grave, or serious, as… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I wonder why men can get serious at all. They have this delicate long thing hanging outside their bodies, which goes up… — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
If they lose their legal basis for owning a .cn domain, google.cn would cease to exist, or if it continued to exist,… — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
Serious musicians are finding it harder and harder to have a voice in the world of music these days. — Kevin Eubanks Copy Share Image
If you hit the front end on the right-hand side you could turn that one on by itself and if you hit… — Stevie Ray Vaughan Copy Share Image
If we are really serious about preventing another crisis like the 2008 meltdown, we should simply ban complex financial instruments unless they… — Ha-Joon Chang Copy Share Image
I didn't want to be criticized for taking low-quality photographs, so I tried to reach the best, highest quality of photography and… — Hiroshi Sugimoto Copy Share Image
This is actually something no one knows, but my mom was really the one who created the entire style for 'Teen Witch.'… — Robyn Lively Copy Share Image
The rule for every worthwhile man is that no serious job ever shall receive less than his best thought and effort — William Feather Copy Share Image
The issue here is not gun control. And it's not even astronomical cost overruns, although those are serious. What's really inexcusable is… — Sheila Fraser Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, you never knew whether people were being serious or not. There was a lot of nodding and… — Ardal O'Hanlon Copy Share Image
Famines are easy to prevent if there is a serious effort to do so, and a democratic government, facing elections and criticisms… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
You know what I'm thinking?' Maggie said. I had no idea. 'Nope,' David replied. Apparently David didn't know either. Maggie turned to… — Lisa Lutz Copy Share Image
The fact is that comedy is actually too serious to be taken seriously. It may be that comedy touches such deep emotions… — Abe Burrows Copy Share Image
There were no examples of girls like myself becoming successful actresses. To be an actress in England was a serious, upper-middle class… — Tracey Ullman Copy Share Image
[T]he enshrinement of constitutional rights necessarily takes certain policy choices off the table.... Undoubtedly some think that the Second Amendment is outmoded… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
It is not possible to remake this country, to democratize it, humanize it, make it serious, as long as we have teenagers… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
A good rule of thumb is if you've made it to 35 and your job still requires you wear a nametag, you've… — Dennis Miller Copy Share Image
The problems raised by a conscious direction of economic affairs on a national scale inevitably assume even greater dimensions when the same… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Serious occupation is labor that has reference to some want. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
Kyoto protocol is not a simple environmental issue, where you can say scientists are not unanimous. This is about international relations, this… — Margot Wallstrom Copy Share Image
I’m almost never serious, and I’m always too serious. Too deep, too shallow. Too sensitive, too cold hearted. I’m like a collection… — Ferdinand de Saussure Copy Share Image
There's no denying that a collapse in stock prices today would pose serious macroeconomic challenges for the United States. Consumer spending would… — Ben Bernanke Copy Share Image
Let's be honest. We don't take rap serious the way other cultures take rock-n-roll, they take country. They artists are being loved. — Master P Copy Share Image
After reading ... accounts ... of minor accidents of light, it is little wonder that the average man would far rather watch… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
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