#age

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

If pushed, though, I'd say that the next stage will be reached when it it's no longer true that about 75% of the best games were written in 1980's on the way to that. ↗

— Graham Nelson

#best #games #i #longer #next

It is warm work; and this day may be the last to any of us at a moment. But mark you! I would not be elsewhere for thousands. - at the Battle of Copenhagen. ↗

— Horatio Nelson

#battle #copenhagen #day #elsewhere #i

My Brat Pack buddies and I didn't exactly handle celebrity very well. Success at an early age is far more difficult to handle than failure. ↗

— Judd Nelson

#brat #buddies #celebrity #difficult #early

But it is neither cannon nor bayonet that will do the worst damage to this city. No, this place will remember the war against our government just as long as there are inhabitants here. ↗

— Knute Nelson

#bayonet #cannon #city #damage #government

But it seemed to me that as soon as you have computer storage you could put every point you wanted in - make the ones that are less relevant to your central topic, further away or allow the central topic to move as the reader proceeded. ↗

— Ted Nelson

#away #central #computer #could #every

I would like to see more airplay for all artists, no matter what age. I think there's a lot of money being spent toward the young guys, but a lot of the older guys are the ones who blazed the trail for those young guys. ↗

— Willie Nelson

#airplay #artists #being #guys #i

The first time I got onstage was when I was about 5 years old. It was at a church social, and I had a poem to recite. ↗

— Willie Nelson

#church #first #first time #got #had

I had the benefit of experiencing a hundred times more than the average kid. I don't look back with regret at all. It was the best life ever. ↗

— Corin Nemec

#back #benefit #best #ever #experiencing

Language is remarkable, except under the extreme constraints of mathematics and logic, it never can talk only about what it's supposed to talk about but is always spreading around. ↗

— Howard Nemerov

#always #around #constraints #except #extreme