Since she got a cause and stopped being funny. I think she's real funny, but lately it's all been hearts and flowers and tears and saving teenagers and creating a role model. And that ain't funny. No giggles there.
~By Andy Richter ~
Some words having to do with the death of the people in the World Trade Center attack had been added, and when I got to it, I had this overwhelmingly emotional experience. I struggled to get through the words; tears were streaming down my cheeks.
~By Leonard Nimoy ~
All good poetry is forged slowly and patiently, link by link, with sweat and blood and tears.
~By Alfred Douglas ~
It is acceptable to bring someone to tears if it explains to them in an emotional way why a product, a service, or a candidate is the right person, is the right thing to do.
~By Frank Luntz ~
You cry tears when a man leaves you at any age - it doesn't matter whether you are 20 or 60.
~By Linda Evans ~
Laughter and grief join hands. Always the heart Clumps in the breast with heavy stride; The face grows lined and wrinkled like a chart, The eyes bloodshot with tears and tide. Let the wind blow, for many a man shall die.
~By Karl Shapiro ~
It is little men know of women; their smiles and their tears alike are seldom what they seem.
~By Amelia Barr ~
Repentant tears wash out the stain of guilt.
~By Saint Aurelius Augustine ~
Pitching... sometimes I did so poorly, it brought me to tears.
~By Dennis Eckersley ~
And I just remember, you know, breaking into tears and feeling so empty because, as long as Elvis was in the world, you always knew something was going and he always had something that kept everybody mesmerized.
~By Jackie DeShannon ~
If you have tears, prepare to shed them now.
~By William Shakespeare ~
Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.
~By Hosea Ballou ~
Remember me with smiles and laughter, for that is how I will remember you all. If you can only remember me with tears, then don't remember me at all.
~By Laura Ingalls Wilder ~
Before the reward there must be labor. You plant before you harvest. You sow in tears before you reap joy.
~By Ralph Ransom ~
Tears fall in my heart like the rain on the town.
~By Paul Verlaine ~
Red Skelton... I broke into tears when I met him.
~By Rip Taylor ~
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.
~By Laurence Olivier ~
Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.
~By Natalie Clifford Barney ~
Oh eyes, no eyes, but fountains fraught with tears; O life, no life, but lively form of death; Oh world, no world, but mass of public wrongs.
~By Thomas Kyd ~
I do not weep: I loathe tears, for they are a sign of slavery.
~By Max Beckmann ~
A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.
~By Charles Peguy ~
And the smile that is worth the praises of earth is the smile that shines through tears.
~By Ella Wheeler Wilcox ~
Tears are the symbol of the inability of the soul to restrain its emotion and retain its self command.
~By Henri Frederic Amiel ~
For women's tears are but the sweat of eyes.
~By Juvenal ~
The most efficient water power in the world - women's tears.
~By Wilson Mizner ~
Tears are the natural penalties of pleasure. It is a law that we should pay for all that we enjoy.
~By William Gilmore Simms ~
Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them.
~By Christian Nestell Bovee ~
My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away.
~By Kim Wilde ~
Rumors of sneezing, kissing, tears, sweat, and saliva spreading AIDS caused people to panic.
~By Ryan White ~
I recorded the song live in front of an orchestra, and yes, I was very moved, I was in tears.
~By Burt Bacharach ~
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.
~By Robert Pattinson ~
Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are.
~By Arthur Golden ~
No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.
~By Robert Frost ~
I never did pal around with actresses. Their talk usually bored me to tears.
~By Bette Davis ~
Every therapeutic cure, and still more, any awkward attempt to show the patient the truth, tears him from the cradle of his freedom from responsibility and must therefore reckon with the most vehement resistance.
~By Alfred Adler ~
I listened to it last night for the first time since we started this project. I went out to my car and put it in and went to an empty parking lot and just listened and read the little pamphlet that came with it. After two or three songs I burst into tears.
~By Randy Bachman ~
And tears are heard within the harp I touch.
~By Petrarch ~
My life so common it disappears and sometimes even music cannot substitute for tears.
~By Paul Simon ~
Next to a circus there ain't nothing that packs up and tears out faster than the Christmas spirit.
~By Kin Hubbard ~
Certainly tears are given to us to use. Like all good gifts, they should be used properly.
~By Loretta Young ~
If we have been brought up with the idea that life is for suffering and sacrifice, then of course we would seek death to escape this 'vale of tears'.
~By Claude Vorilhon ~
Words are made for a certain exactness of thought, as tears are for a certain degree of pain. What is least distinct cannot be named; what is clearest is unutterable.
~By Rene Daumal ~
It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are today, but we have just begun. Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today.
~By Barack Obama ~
The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes, and say, 'O God, forgive me,' or 'Help me.'
~By Billy Graham ~
Sensitive, responsive, eagerly welcomed everywhere, the drama, holding the mirror up to nature, by laughter and by tears reveals to mankind the world of men.
~By George P. Baker ~
Tears are the noble language of the eye.
~By Robert Herrick ~
It is such a secret place, the land of tears.
~By Antoine de Saint-Exupery ~
Disney has the best casting. If he doesn't like an actor he just tears him up.
~By Alfred Hitchcock ~
It is better to write of laughter than of tears, for laughter is the property of man.
~By Francois Rabelais ~
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.
~By Winston Churchill ~
To me the meanest flower that blows can give thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.
~By William Wordsworth ~
But there are other things than dissipation that thicken the features. Tears, for example.
~By Rebecca West ~
Whatever tears one may shed, in the end one always blows one's nose.
~By Heinrich Heine ~
If it were possible to cure evils by lamentation and to raise the dead with tears, then gold would be a less valuable thing than weeping.
~By Sophocles ~
When one tears away the veils and shows them naked, people's souls give off such a pungent smell of decay.
~By Octave Mirbeau ~
Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.
~By Jesse Jackson ~
The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled.
~By Denis Diderot ~
Tears may be dried up, but the heart - never.
~By Marguerite Gardiner ~
The busy have no time for tears.
~By Lord Byron ~
Southern states in the confederacy were not ready to give up their fight to secede or give up their way of life, which was made possible in large part through the blood, sweat and tears of African slaves.
~By Corrine Brown ~
TV happens. And once it's happened, it's gone. When it's gone, you move on, no tears, no tantrums, no videotape.
~By Mary Schmich ~
Delicious tears! The heart's own dew.
~By Letitia Landon ~
I wonder at the idleness of tears.
~By Lizette Woodworth Reese ~
Nothing dries sooner than tears.
~By Samuel Richardson ~
An actress who has the gift of swaying the emotions of an audience, of compelling tribute of tears, or of moving the public to joyous merriment, cannot always be satisfied to set aside her whole career, in the work that she loves, simply because she is married.
~By Billie Burke ~
I will never forget my beautiful days with you in Shanklin, they are certainly the most pleasant ones of my life. Look, I have tears in my eyes just to think about it. I am furious to be here, it is the end of happiness for a whole year.
~By Camille Claudel ~
I have sometimes imagined my own death and brought myself to tears.
~By Martin Short ~
More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.
~By Saint Teresa ~
Shining through tears, like April suns in showers, that labour to overcome the cloud that loads 'em.
~By Thomas Otway ~
Sympathizing and selfish people are alike, both given to tears.
~By Leigh Hunt ~
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
~By Harriet Beecher Stowe ~
The pleasures of the mighty are obtained by the tears of the poor.
~By Samuel Richardson ~
I always try to balance the light with the heavy - a few tears of human spirit in with the sequins and the fringes.
~By Bette Midler ~
They'll take everything, even your tears.
~By George Foreman ~
Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
~By Henry Ward Beecher ~
Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
~By Edgar Allan Poe ~
In any really good subject, one has only to probe deep enough to come to tears.
~By Edith Wharton ~
The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms hollow, heartless, mirthless, maniacal.
~By James Thurber ~
Christmas carols always brought tears to my eyes. I also cry at weddings. I should have cried at a couple of my own.
~By Ethel Merman ~
When onstage, I always try to take my audience through as many emotions as I possibly can. I want them to go from laughter to tears, be shocked and surprised and walk out the door with a renewed sense of themselves - and maybe a smile.
~By Reba McEntire ~
I shine in tears like the sun in April.
~By Cyril Tourneur ~
I remember one day sitting at the pool and suddenly the tears were streaming down my cheeks. Why was I so unhappy? I had success. I had security. But it wasn't enough. I was exploding inside.
~By Ingrid Bergman ~
Without going into too much detail, the end of my major action scene, after the climax of the scene, there was one little change that I suggested regarding the way things should turn out. It was in the detail of the tears of blood.
~By Chiaki Kuriyama ~
The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea.
~By Isak Dinesen ~
We make the kind of movies we like to watch. I love to laugh. I love to be amazed by how beautiful it is. But I also love to be moved to tears. There's lots of heart in our films.
~By John Lasseter ~
I believe the National Park Service has demonstrated strong partnerships geared towards respecting the private property of citizens in its administering of the current Trail of Tears National Historic Trail and will continue to do so upon the addition of the routes.
~By Zach Wamp ~
Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.
~By Victor Hugo ~
My tears will keep no channel, know no laws to guide their streams, but like the waves, their cause, run with disturbance till they swallow me as a description of his misery.
~By John Cleveland ~
There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
~By Saint Teresa of Avila ~
Pearls mean tears.
~By Doris Lessing ~
The tears of the world are a constant quality. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh.
~By Samuel Beckett ~
There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.
~By Washington Irving ~
Why would I cry over a boy? I would never waste my tears on a boy. Why waste your tears on someone who makes you cry?
~By Kirsten Dunst ~
I think you have to pay for love with bitter tears.
~By Edith Piaf ~
Tears are sometimes an inappropriate response to death. When a life has been lived completely honestly, completely successfully, or just completely, the correct response to death's perfect punctuation mark is a smile.
~By Julie Burchill ~
Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.
~By Albert Camus ~
There is little for the great part of the history of the world except the bitter tears of pity and the hot tears of wrath.
~By Woodrow Wilson ~
The tender heart, the broken and contrite spirit, are to me far above all the joys that I could ever hope for in this vale of tears.
~By Charles Simeon ~
Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength.
~By Billy Graham ~
Oh, I am very weary, Though tears no longer flow; My eyes are tired of weeping, My heart is sick of woe.
~By Anne Bronte ~
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