#pa

Why do we laugh at such terrible things? Because comedy is often the sarcastic realization of inescapable tragedy. ↗

— Bryant H. McGill

#comedy #inescapable #laugh #often #realization

Education should prepare our minds to use its own powers of reason and conception rather than filling it with the accumulated misconceptions of the past. ↗

— Bryant H. McGill

#education #filling #minds #misconceptions #our

In the company of the accomplished, people hope it will rub off on themselves, in the company of the misfortunate, they fear it! ↗

— Bryant H. McGill

#company #fear #hope #off #people

Tom and I didn't have a problem with the height differential but Paramount did, so we tried to hide it. ↗

— Kelly McGillis

#differential #height #hide #i #paramount

Instead of a Dark Lord, you would have a queen, not dark but beautiful and terrible as the dawn! Tempestuous as the sea, and stronger than the foundations of the earth! All shall love me and despair! ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#galadriel #the-fellowship-of-the-ring #the-lord-of-the-ring #beauty

In Australia, not reading poetry is the national pastime. ↗

— Phyllis McGinley

#national #national pastime #pastime #poetry #reading

North Hollywood isn't actually Hollywood, it's in the San Fernando Valley... it's not the most glamorous part of L.A. ↗

— Elizabeth McGovern

#fernando #glamorous #hollywood #most #north

Yes, you can feel very alone as a poet and you sometimes think, is it worth it? Is it worth carrying on? But because there were other poets, you became part of a scene. Even though they were very different writers, it made it easier because you were together. ↗

— Roger McGough

#became #because #carrying #different #easier

I had reconciled myself to being happily out to pasture, a bit. ↗

— Elizabeth McGovern

#bit #had #happily #i #myself

I love having the opportunity to explore a part for a great length of time, really get deeper and deeper into it, because you only have a chance to do that once or twice in a career. ↗

— Elizabeth McGovern

#career #chance #deeper #explore #get