#tear

The office of drama is to exercise, possibly to exhaust, human emotions. The purpose of comedy is to tickle those emotions into an expression of light relief; of tragedy, to wound them and bring the relief of tears. Disgust and terror are the other points of the compass. ↗

— Laurence Olivier

#comedy #compass #disgust #drama #emotions

I believe in things that move people, if the audience isn't deeply caught up and moved to either laughter or tears then I don't think it is theater. ↗

— Estelle Parsons

#believe #caught #deeply #either #i

When I was flying to Rome, we flew over London; I felt like bursting into tears. It's part of me, so I can't leave London behind for good. ↗

— Robert Pattinson

#bursting #felt #flew #flying #good

Not a lot of people know me outside of athletics and believe it or not I am actually quite shy. The exhilaration of a win or tears after falling are the extremes. It takes me a while to get to know someone, but once I do I am very loyal to my old friends. ↗

— Sally Pearson

#after #am #athletics #believe #exhilaration

I think you have to pay for love with bitter tears. ↗

— Edith Piaf

#i #i think #love #pay #tears

And tears are heard within the harp I touch. ↗

— Petrarch

#heard #i #tears #touch #within

My nails are a disaster. If I play guitar when my nails are long, I just tear them off. ↗

— Liz Phair

#guitar #i #just #long #nails

I think, in my life, there've been three times I've broken down into tears on a set because I was happy. ↗

— Stephen Tobolowsky

#been #broken #down #happy #i

The only way to get a three to four-month break would be to tear a tendon or a hamstring or something like that. ↗

— Kevin Pietersen

#get #like #only #something #tear

Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#development #excites #invariably #kind #sensitive