Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The greatest tragedies were written by the Greeks and Shakespeare...neither knew chocolate. — Sandra Boynton Copy Share Image
I like the tragedies way more than the comedies because they're so universal. — Alan Cumming Copy Share Image
I think if you understand your role, comedy won't create any tragedy. — Sanjeeda Sheikh Copy Share Image
Oftentimes, experiencing tragedy very young can strangely give you a kind of equilibrium. — John Cameron Mitchell Copy Share Image
From my point of view, humour and irony include tragedy; they're two sides of the same coin. — Maurizio Cattelan Copy Share Image
Your experiences are what made you what you are today. So when tragedy happens in people's lives, and things are left unsaid,… — Michael Pitt Copy Share Image
Shakespeare also introduces the supernatural into some of his tragedies; he introduces ghosts, and witches who have supernatural knowledge. — Andrew Coyle Bradley Copy Share Image
Ever since the Greek tragedies, artists have, from time to time, asked themselves how they might influence ongoing political events. — John Berger Copy Share Image
“Dark circles under my eyes sink deeper and deeper into my skull, in contrast to my pale skin there is an undeniable… — Dee Remy Copy Share Image
It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man. — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I am sent on assignments just like guys. I have covered presidential campaigns, natural disasters, tragedies, red carpets, medical stories and more. — Megan Alexander Copy Share Image
The agrarian crisis [in India] is an unnecessary tragedy, resulting directly from an economics of greed and a politics driven by the… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
“The whole school was in shock when he died. Just six months earlier, another guy from school died. Everyone went on about… — Lisa Schroeder Copy Share Image
Who’s afraid of the big, bad buildings? Everyone, because there are so many things about gigantism that we just don’t know. The… — Ada Louise Huxtable Copy Share Image
I'm not stupid enough to think that I can deal with another 10 or 15 years of major exposure. I think that… — George Michael Copy Share Image
September 11 was, and remains, above all an immense human tragedy. But September 11 also posed a momentous and deliberate challenge not… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
The locus of the modern struggle with its enemy of death is clearly the body (not mind, society, or the afterworld). The… — Margaret M. Lock Copy Share Image
That small circle of earth became a second home to both of us. Gardening boring? Never! It has surprise, tragedy, startling developments… — Paul Fleischman Copy Share Image
The tragedy of our day is the climate of fear in which we live, and fear breeds repression. Too often sinister threats… — Adlai Stevenson I Copy Share Image
Have you ever thought, when something dreadful happens, 'a moment ago things were not like this; let it be then, not now,… — Mary Stewart Copy Share Image
America's gun culture demonstrates itself in the Wild West, Dirty Harry mentality of people who actually believe that if a number of… — Bob Costas Copy Share Image
I suddenly thought about being backstage, and I think it shocks you to meet the people you shared your bedrooms with. And… — Kevin Drew Copy Share Image
People misunderstand happiness. They think it's the absence of trouble. That's not happiness, that's luck. Happiness is the ability to live well… — Rachel Kadish Copy Share Image
The mysteries of a universe made of drops of fire and clods of mud do not concern us in the least. The… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Tragedy is an imitation not only of a complete action, but of events inspiring fear and pity. Such an effect is best… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Even in the tragedies, Shakespeare always put in parts for the comic actors because his audience was mixed. He puts in people… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
The vault above us is not deaf because the universe is an idiot; the silence is not the heartless silence of an… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Imagine a room awash in gasoline, and there are two implacable enemies in that room. One of them has nine thousand matches.… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image