Around the time of the Terran Caesar Augustus, a Martian artist had been composing a work of art. It could have been… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
I am secretly afraid of animals.... I think it is because of the usness in their eyes, with the underlying not-usness which… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
A lot of people saw Marilyn Monroe and Judy Garland as persecuted and tragic and vulnerable, and I think a lot of… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
Open your mind to new experiences, particularly to the study of other people. Nothing that happens to a writer – however happy,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We did exactly what everybody in the country did, watching it. You entered this state of sort of denials. You think, well,… — Diane Sawyer Copy Share Image
The time has come for America to hear the truth about this tragic war. In international conflicts, the truth is hard to… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Don't laugh at the spinsters, dear girls, for often very tender, tragic romances are hidden away in the hearts that beat so… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Narcissism and Christianity have little in common, yet the Romantic paradigm of artistic creativity, particularly in light of subsequent Freudian ideas, has… — John Walford Copy Share Image
One of the pitfalls of writing about illness is that it is very easy to imagine people with cancer as either these… — John Green Copy Share Image
The key is just to ignore the pain, because physical comedy only works if you see someone get hurt and they aren't… — Chris Pratt Copy Share Image
The tragic nuclear accident at Fukushima underscored the urgent need to enhance nuclear safety and the international emergency response framework. I commend… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
A lot of people do have tragic childhoods. But you know what? Get over it. — Phil McGraw Copy Share Image
If you come face to face with some really challenging situations and tragic circumstances - you are going in there with a… — Annie Lennox Copy Share Image
It is not possible, for a poet, writing in any language, to protect himself from the tragic elements in human life.... [ellipsis… — Louise Bogan Copy Share Image
Art is both the taking and giving of beauty; the turning out to the light the inner folds of the awareness of… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
You know Americans are obsessed with life and death and rebirth, that's the American Cycle. You know, awakening, tragic, horrible death and… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
Among all the tragic consequences of depression and war, this suppression of personal self-expression through one's life work is among the most… — Henry Wriston Copy Share Image
My tutors at drama school commended and criticised my use of comedy in my acting for a long time at drama school.… — John Bradley-West Copy Share Image
We patronize the animals for their incompleteness, for their tragic fate of having taken form so far below ourselves. And therein we… — Henry Beston Copy Share Image
“It’s almost funny, in a tragic way, that the fiery thing at the center of my universe did die and that I,… — Emily Henry Copy Share Image
The tragic hero prefers death to prudence. The comedian prefers playing tricks to winning. Only the villain really plays to win. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Some of it's magic and some of it's tragic but I had a good life all the way. — Jimmy Buffett Copy Share Image
Cuba cannot go back to capitalism; we know all the tragic experience that it has generated for Latin America and the world.… — Alejandro Castro Espin Copy Share Image
But that is the way of the place: down our many twisting corridors, one encounters story after story, some heroic, some villainous,… — Stephen L. Carter Copy Share Image
Depression, when it's clinical, is not a metaphor. It runs in families, and it's known to respond to medication and to counseling.… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
