Whenever possible, I like to have the supreme head of a company show me over the works. It is extremely illuminating to… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
The most common characteristic of women's history is to be lost and discovered, lost again and rediscovered, lost once more and re-rediscovered… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
In general, you have great artists who have died far too early and who have left great cultural impact. If you look… — Simon de Pury Copy Share Image
There has never been any evidence that the death penalty reduces capital crimes or that crimes increased when executions stopped. Tragic mistakes… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
All truth goes through three stages. First it is ridiculed. Then it is violently opposed. Finally, it is accepted as self-evident. Facts… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
I think that the tendency for most people is to fall back on a comic interpretation of things because things are so… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
My daughter fell in love with Ben Barnes, of course. She's 17. What are you gonna do? That was a tragic loss.… — Diane Keaton Copy Share Image
She was a natural blonde, with delicate hands and feet, and in her youthful photographs one saw a girl with mocking eyes… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
This is our dilemma--either to taste and not to know or to know and not to taste--or, more strictly, to lack one… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is a very beautiful story, 'The Crow.' It is a very tragic story with huge emotional themes. — Luke Evans Copy Share Image
Tragedy isn't an easy thing to kill. It takes more than a turtle. Tragedy must be destroyed by someone willing to be… — N.D. Wilson Copy Share Image
I like this other world, this forgetting of myself. The actor works in order to escape, not to find himself. You become… — Sylvia Kristel Copy Share Image
One of the pitfalls about writing about illness is that it is very easy to imagine people with cancer as either these… — John Green Copy Share Image
When I first started acting, I started in opera and had a great desire to play grand, tragic characters. I got sidetracked… — Leslie Easterbrook Copy Share Image
Shakespeare is the outstanding example of how that can be done. In all of Shakespeare's plays, no matter what tragic events occur,… — Charlton Heston Copy Share Image
Those who foresee the future and recognize it as tragic are often seized upon by a madness which forced them to commit… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
The tragic sense of life: our heroic acceptance of the suffering of others. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
History does not repeat itself. Nor does it unfold in cycles. The real future is contingent, rich beyond imagining, a perennial gobsmack,… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
It's just really tragic after all the horrors of the last 1,000 years we can't leave behind something as primitive as government-sponsored execution. — Russ Feingold Copy Share Image
As we all know, the objective and mission of the photojournalist is to show us the reality of the world. And in… — Alfredo Jaar Copy Share Image
Nor does the idea of a moral order asserting itself against attack or want of conformity answer in full to our feelings… — Andrew Coyle Bradley Copy Share Image
There were many moments in the Vine like that one--where you might think today was yesterday, and yesterday was tomorrow, and so… — Denis Johnson Copy Share Image
No baseness or cruelty of treason so deep or so tragic shall enter our human world, but that loyal love shall be… — Josiah Royce Copy Share Image
Gay unions, what is that about? I haven't been invited to any ceremonies, and I wouldn't go anyway. The idea that gay… — Boy George Copy Share Image
