The extermination of the buffalo has been a veritable tragedy of the animal world. — Theodore Roosevelt 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
Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To tell a strong story with real taste of an epic tragedy needs great actors. — Luiz Bolognesi Copy Share Image
I think if you understand your role, comedy won't create any tragedy. — Sanjeeda Sheikh Copy Share Image
A tragedy's first act is crowded with supporting players: witnesses crimping their faces, policemen scribbling in pads and making radio calls, EMS… — Darin Strauss Copy Share Image
“Then in the spring something happened to me. Yes, I remember. I fell in love with James Tyrone and was so happy… — Eugene O'Neill Copy Share Image
I think classical music tuition is, well, was when I was a child, was an abomination. I think in some ways it… — Hugh Laurie Copy Share Image
“There is beauty in the midst of tragedy. As if beauty were condensing in the heart of ugliness. It's very strange.” — Hélène Berr Copy Share Image
Perhaps his tragedy is that he is the one normal writer left on earth and it is this that adds to his… — Malcolm Lowry Copy Share Image
The basis of tragedy is man's helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man's helplessness against vanity (the… — Dawn Powell Copy Share Image
I think the ties to slavery and the terrible tragedy that followed the Civil War with Jim Crow and racial violence is… — William R. Ferris Copy Share Image
Comedy, I imagine, is harder to do consistently than tragedy, but I like it spiced in the wine of sadness. — Bernard Malamud Copy Share Image
“The tragedy of Hetty is a ‘collide’ between the free will and male dominant society or nobility or religion. If her conduct… — Lecturer M K Bhutta Scholar Copy Share Image
Kids are a great analogy. You want your kids to grow up, and you don't want your kids to grow up. You… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“The dog next-door had settled down, and the neighbourhood seemed stunned by this event occurring in our backyard. It was like it… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
Some people have accused my tragedy of being too sad, as though one desired a merry tragedy. People clamor for Enjoyment as… — August Strindberg Copy Share Image
Conflict is the basis of drama. I guess that goes back as long as time has existed as far as mankind is… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
This familiarity with a respected physician and my appreciation of his work, or the tragedy I experienced with the long, tormented agony… — Albert Claude Copy Share Image
As a nation we've been faced with so many tragedies since the beginning of this Millennium and I believe we have even… — Oleta Adams Copy Share Image
Some of the critics viewed Vietnam as a morality play in which the wicked must be punished before the final curtain and… — Henry A. Kissinger 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
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 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
[Comedies], in the ancient world, were regarded as of a higher rank than tragedy, of a deeper truth, of a more difficult… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Making this movie as a period piece about a period that was very recent in people's minds. I was in Taiwan [during… — Ang Lee Copy Share Image
“Live a life abundant in love and rich in spirit, these are the seeds of a fulfilling existence. Be the safe harbor… — Jaeda DeWalt Copy Share Image
“She thought men were saviors... ...And she looked for more in them than what they were... Only to rescue herself from those… — Merrit Malloy 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
I'm overflowing with stories, delighted and quite mad with the beauty and tragedy of them. — Katharine Susannah Prichard Copy Share Image
“When school vacates, your life vacates alongside. What a tragedy! What a waste of life!” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
![“[Comedies], in the ancient world, were regarded as of a higher rank than tragedy, of a deeper truth, of a more difficult realization, of a sounder structure, and of a revelation more complete. The happy ending of the fairy tale, the myth, and the divine comedy of the soul, is to be read, not as a…” quote by Joseph Campbell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/19d/joseph-campbell-300_ancient_comedies-in-the-ancient-world-were-regar_2396551.png)
![“Making this movie as a period piece about a period that was very recent in people's minds. I was in Taiwan [during the 1970s], so I hope I did all right. Otherwise, it could be the biggest embarrassment of my life. Also, the story is not linear, it's patchy, like a cubist painting, and there is…” quote by Ang Lee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/69b/ang-lee-2496_core_making-this-movie-as-a-period-piece-abou_796900.jpg)
