He was wearing a look that she found odd and compelling - that amusement that didn’t seem to pass beyond the surface… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
The unicorn was white, with hoofs of silver and graceful horn of pearl... The glorious thing about him was his eye. There… — T. H. White Copy Share Image
Do you take pride in your hurt? Does it make you seem large and tragic? ...Well, think about it. Maybe you're playing… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I find that very appealing: the blurring of the lines between what's funny and what's tragic. And what's ordinary and what's not… — Rachel Joyce Copy Share Image
the true art of the gods is the comic. The comic is a condescension of the divine to the world of man;… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
It'd be impossible to capture the feel of 'All Quiet on the Western Front' in a novel starring Mace Windu; 'All Quiet'… — Matthew Stover Copy Share Image
What must be remembered in any case is that secret complicity that joins the logical and the everyday to the tragic. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Nature has a way sometimes of reminding Man of just how small he is. She occasionally throws up terrible offsprings of our… — Raymond Burr Copy Share Image
California is a tragic country — like Palestine, like every Promised Land. Its short history is a fever-chart of migrations — the… — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
Stand-up came naturally to me because people in Ireland talk. But that's not talking on panel shows; it is structured fun. It… — Dylan Moran Copy Share Image
I have made tremendous efforts to work in a darker register and express the sinister and tragic quality of the place, given… — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
Human nature has its fatal weaknesses, but 'love' means embracing the whole of human nature, the bad within the good, the benign… — Qiu Miaojin Copy Share Image
There's something tragic in the fate of almost every person--it's just that the tragic is often concealed from a person by the… — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
Because I believe a lot of people share my feelings about the tragic landscape of highway strips, parking lots, housing tracts, mega-malls,… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
The teenage pregnancy is such a tragic thing. It is such a sad and tragic thing because the children who have children… — Laura Huxley Copy Share Image
I wasn't paying attention," said Myrtle dramatically. "Peeves upset me so much I came in here and tried to kill myself. Then,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Susan Straight finds LA's secret heart in Between Heaven and Here and with a sleight of hand only the masters have, she… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
We didn't want to live anymore in the old logic. And I like that. The consequence of that is to create the… — Albert Serra Copy Share Image
So long as men die, life will reassert its tragic interest from time to time with fresh energy, and to this interest… — Henry Parry Liddon Copy Share Image
Employers, have you ever stopped to reckon what the goodwill of your workers is worth? ... In most large concerns it would… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
“And if there is one last thing I would have you know before we reach these final pages, it's that sometimes, no… — T.J. Klune Copy Share Image
I have only danced my life. As a child I danced the spontaneous joy of growing things. As an adolescent, I danced… — Isadora Duncan Copy Share Image
Is it not tragic, for example, that while in the last World War almost everyone believed it was the war to end… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
Theatre is a concentrate of life as normal. Theatre is a purified version of real life, an extraction, an essence of human… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
Broadcaster: Rap is Dead Black people be like R.I.P They just killed a thug — Giavonna Stayturntup Gillespie Copy Share Image
