Famous Quotes & Sayings

J. K. Rowling

I'm not a billionaire, what a tragedy.

Nathan Fillion

There's comedy even in tragedy. There's comedy in life. And in 'Castle', we go for that comedy.

Julian Barnes

Does history repeat itself, the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce? No, that's too grand, too considered a process. History just burps, and we taste again that raw-onion sandwich it swallowed centuries ago.

Michael Bay

Everybody knows about Pearl Harbor. The thing that really fascinated me is that through this tragedy there was this amazing American heroism.

Nick Frost

God's greatest tragedy is the creation of mankind.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The tragedy of virtue is that the more obvious, boring, unoriginal, and sermonizing the proverb, the harder it is to implement.

Mignon McLaughlin

Tragedy isn't getting something, or failing to get it; it's losing something you already have.

May Sarton

Is it perhaps the one necessity of love, that it be needed? And the one great human tragedy that it so rarely is?

Matt Mullenweg

As the web becomes more and more of a part of our every day lives, it would be a horrible tragedy if it was locked up inside of companies and proprietary software.

Maya Angelou

Tragedy, no matter how sad, becomes boring to those not caught in its addictive caress.

Mason Cooley

Sleepy-head is no longer aroused by tragic imaginings.

Mason Cooley

Comedy defends the commonplace; tragedy explodes it.

Marie Osmond

Tragedy plus time equals humor

Michael M. Honda

The Constitution is never tested during times of tranquility; it is during times of tension, turmoil, tragedy, trauma, and terrorism that it is sorely tested

Milan Kundera

...she merely wished to find a way out of the maze. She knew that she had become a burden to him: she took things too seriously, turning everything into a tragedy, and failed to grasp the lightness and amusing insignificance of physical love. How she wished she could learn lightness! She yearned for someone to help her out of her anachronistic shell.

Lisa McMann

Jacian Obregon. It sounds like a melody. Or a tragedy.

Libba Bray

It's so laughable that it's somewhere beyond comedy and right into tragedy again.

Mahatma Gandhi

The moral to be legitimately drawn from the supreme tragedy of the bomb is that it will not be destroyed by counter bombs even as violence cannot be by counter-violence.

Mahatma Gandhi

We are too near the scene of tragedy to realize that this canker or untouchability has traveled far beyond its prescribed limits and has sapped the very foundation of the whole nation.

Stephen Leacock

All Dickens's humour couldn't save Dickens, save him from his overcrowded life, its sordid and neurotic central tragedy and its premature collapse. But Dickens's humour, and all such humour, has saved or at least greatly served the world.

Ellen Page

There's obviously a lot of tragedy in comedy; I really enjoy the paradox of what a really good comedy is.

Tana French

One of my da's tragedies was always the fact that he was bright enough to understand just how comprehensively he had shat all over his life.

Stephen King

he looked to her like an absurd twentieth-century Hamlet, an indecisive figure so mesmerized by onrushing tragedy that he was helpless to divert its course or alter it in any way.

Thomas Harris

The tragedy is not to die, but to be wasted.

Thomas Kyd

Then haste we down to meet thy friends and foes; To place thy friends in ease, the rest in woes. For here though death doth end their misery, I'll there begin their endless tragedy.

Woody Allen

When I was young, I wanted to be a dramatic writer, a writer of tragedy. Nothing would've pleased me more than if I could have written like Eugene O'Neil or Tennessee Williams.

Sara Zarr

It's like a Venn diagram of tragedy.

Willard Scott

It's simply a tragedy that anyone today goes blind from glaucoma, when it's so unnecessary.

Robin Gibb

I sometimes wonder if the tragedies my family has suffered are a kind of karmic price for all the fame and fortune the Bee Gees have had.

Richelle Mead

..Sage is convinced one extraneous calorie will make her go from super skinny to just regular skinny. Tragedy.

Thomas Sowell

Few of the great tragedies of history were created by the village idiot, and many by the village genius.

Robin Roberts

The tragedy is not so much the experience that you're having. The tragedy is that we don't take the time to understand the meaning and purpose behind what we're going through.

Robin Morgan

every actor knows that tragedy, being linear and inevitable, is taxing - but comedy, which depends on the element of surprise, is the hardest act of all.