Christopher Fry Quotes

In tragedy every moment is eternity; in comedy, eternity is a moment.

Christopher Fry

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• In general, I think the world is a good place if you work hard, believe in yourself, have good intentions, and if you are kind to people, I believe that good things happen to you.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• When men are romantically interested in you, it's really simple. Just ignore everything they say and only pay attention to what they do.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Men
  • Attention
  • Simple

• To me the definition of true masculinity – and femininity, too – is being able to lay in your own skin comfortably.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • True
  • Me
  • Femininity

• Of course on air I use occasional hyperbole to tell a story.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Air
  • Story
  • Tell

• Be realistic and truthful - and tell Hong Kong businessmen honestly that they should go for long-term investments since it is unlikely money can be made in the short haul.

  

  Zhu Rongji
  • Long
  • Money
  • Short

• I'm a political conservative.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Political
  • Conservative

• Everybody knows if you don't have an examined life, you go mad.

  

  Taylor Negron
  • Life
  • You
  • Mad

• The actors in 'Eight Men Out' really know how to play, and the background athletes are all professionals.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Men
  • Know
  • Play

• I've really enjoyed doing 'Annie Get Your Gun' and loved Neil Simon stuff like 'Chapter Two.'

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Doing
  • Gun
  • Loved

• I loved the writing process. I loved it.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Writing
  • Process
  • Loved

• My debut album is just a diary from a lonely 21-year-old. That's what it is.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Lonely
  • Just
  • Diary

• Some days I totally appreciate everything that's happening to me, and some days I feel everyone's waiting for me to mess up.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Me
  • Waiting
  • Feel

• Whether it was H. P. Lovecraft's doomed towns or Shirley Jackson's lonely, looming 'The Haunting of Hill House,' the boondocks had all the fun. As a black kid in Queens, New York, I couldn't have felt more removed.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • Fun
  • House
  • Black

• As consumers, we are faced with hundreds of choices - and when it comes to books, thousands of choices.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Choices
  • Books
  • Consumers

• Citizens of India, Pakistan, and Kashmir need to come together and make music.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Music
  • Together
  • India

• I get to enter into the world the director has created: to live these different lives on top of my own life.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Life
  • World
  • Different

• A location-aware tablet will let us use what's called geodesign to compose participatory, what-if scenarios onsite, using maps that several people can share - something we could always do with paper but that's been a challenge with digital maps in the field.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • People
  • Always
  • Challenge

• Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime.

  

  Imre Lakatos
  • Commitment
  • Virtue
  • Blind

• Everybody who is a Republican wants to call themselves conservative even if they don't necessarily vote that way.

  

  John Fleming

• I would have to say that I have to concentrate more when I'm doing comedy. There are so many details that make up any character, but developing a character for a dramatic role seems to come more naturally.

  

  Kaitlyn Dever
  • Up
  • Character
  • Comedy

• If you look at 'The Best Man,' there's a lot of humor in that, but I never consider that movie a comedy. I felt that it was a drama with comedic elements and comedic parts to it.

  

  Malcolm D. Lee
  • Movie
  • Man
  • Comedy

• America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.

  

  C. Wright Mills
  • America
  • Political
  • City

• I believe you have to nurture your conscience.

  

  Loretta Young
  • Believe

• In tragedy every moment is eternity; in comedy, eternity is a moment.

  

  Christopher Fry
  • Comedy