Famous Quotes & Sayings

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Unsaintly saints are the tragedy of Christianity.

Carlton Cuse

Tragedy is a great storytelling form. It worked extremely well for Shakespeare. It worked extremely well for Jim Cameron with Titanic.

William Shakespeare

I despised my arrival on this earth and I despise my departure; it is a tragedy.

Ai Weiwei

A nation that has no music and no fairytales is a tragedy.

Bob Odenkirk

Comedy is tragedy plus timing.

Bill Johnson

It's a great tragedy when the Bible is interpreted by those who are not in love.

Edith Wharton

There's nothing grimmer than the tragedy that wears a comic mask.

David Hockney

Tragedy is a literary concept.

Antonin Artaud

Tragedy on the stage is no longer enough for me, I shall bring it into my own life.

Buddy Rich

No, I don't like recording. It's a bore.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

If worship bores you, you are not ready for heaven.

Guy Pearce

I don't understand the actor who plays the same role from movie to movie. Maybe it's because I worked on long-running television when I was in my teens, and so the idea of playing the same role just bores me intensely. I'd rather not do it at all.

Nicholas Haslam

I didn't want to look distinguished; I wanted to look fun, and also to fade into the street, into the King's Road. If I don't fade into a room at White's, that's fine. My father was chairman of Brooks' and the Beefsteak, and I was brought up in that life, and it bores me rigid.

David Mamet

If the scene bores you when you read it, rest assured it WILL bore the actors, and will then bore the audience, and we're all going to be back in the breadline.

Andy Warhol

You need to let the little things that would ordinarily bore you suddenly thrill you.

Andre Gide

The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced.

Ambrose Bierce

Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.

Lorenzo Romar

If we didn't get him, I'm glad UA got him because Lute does a great job. When you get to know someone like Marcus, you pull for him. He's in good hands.

Georges Bataille

Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison.

Sandra Moore

She is pretty healthy for her age; she doesn't have anything major. She uses a walker by herself. She reads the paper from her hometown. She can really be a delightful person to be around.

Pat Conroy

Though Nathalie Dupree did not remember much about my presence in her class, it marked me forever. I remain her enthusiast, her evangelist, her acolyte, and her grateful student. She taught me that cooking and storytelling make the most delightful coconspirators.

Thomas Cole

Nature has spread for us a rich and delightful banquet. Shall we turn from it? ... We are still in Eden.

Richard Thomas

I loved being in the room with Mamet as a director - he is the most generous, funny, delightful person to work for every day.

Barry Corbin

Bill Cosby, you know, he's a delightful guy.

Charles Spurgeon

It is a most delightful reflection that if I come to the throne of God in prayer, I may feel a thousand defects, but yet there is hope. I usually feel more dissatisfied with my prayers than with anything else I do.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

There is no place more delightful than one's own fireplace.

Oscar Wilde

It is an odd thing, but every one who disappears is said to be seen at San Francisco. It must be a delightful city, and possess all the attractions of the next world.