"A comic matter cannot be expressed in tragic verse. [Lat., Versibus exponi tragicis res comica non vult.]"

-- Horace

#Poetry Quotes #Matter Quotes #Comic Quotes

“Actors need steely determination. It's a tough profession with plenty of knocks along the way. You have to be very determined and never take 'no' for an answer.”
“You can't be everything. Nobody is everything. You just do what you do, and you try to do that as well as you can. And if somebody doesn't like it, too bad.”
“The right-hander is throwing up in the bullpen.”
“There is no other occupation in the world that so closely resembled enslavement as the career of a film star.”
“If you are willing to discipline yourself, the physical universe won't need to discipline you.”
“Your dream has to be bigger than your fear.”

Source : Twitter post from Dec 01, 2016
“One has to realize that the powerful industrial groups concerned in the manufacture of arms are doing their best in all countries to prevent the peaceful settlement of international disputes, and that rulers can achieve this great end only if they are sure of the vigorous support of the majority of their peoples.”
“You think intelligence and grit can succeed by themselves, but I'm telling you that's a pretty illusion.”

Source : Nancy Kress (2009). “Steal Across the Sky”, p.12, Macmillan

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