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You and I are black and white - a film noir, filled with gestures, poignant and tender
— John Geddes
The sad and poignant thing for Johnson, however, was not his anti-intellectualism in itself but his need to be accepted by the very people he scorned.
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
Come, sir, come,I'll wrestle with you in my strength of love.
Look, here I have you, thus I let you go,
And give you to the gods. — William Shakespeare
There is, after all, no pleasure like that given by a woman who really wants to see you.
— Anthony Powell
I did so want to hear a singer. I miss the sound of a woman's voice, the way they look and smell.
— J.A. Willoughby
Out of pain and problems have come the sweetest songs, the most poignant poems, the most gripping stories.
— Billy Graham
The song 'Some Other Time ... ' is full of emotion. In wartime, it had a tremendously poignant feeling.
— Betty Comden
Rich said, "As your get older, feelings are harder to come by." It was so simple and poignant.
— Ahmir Questlove Thompson
Memories lurk like dustballs in the backs of drawers. The stereo is a special model that plays only music fraught with poignant associations.
— Jay McInerney
Beauty is at its most poignant when the cold hand of Death holds poised to wither it imminently.
— Jacqueline Carey
The disasters of war can be infinitely eerie and poignant.
— Michael Leunig
I also hate the word, 'poignant.
— John Arnold
Hope is a desperate man's currency.
— Paul Tremblay
The most heartbreakingly poignant modern love story ever written.
— Raymond Queneau
There is a blue bird in my heart that wants to get out.
— Charles Bukowski
She was too busy feeling grief to dress like grief.
— Zora Neale Hurston
She kept swimming out into life because she hadn't yet found a rock to stand on.
— Barbara Kingsolver
A grievance is most poignant when almost redressed.
— Eric Hoffer
It's fun singing with other people who are really good singers. There's something kind of poignant about braiding a couple vocals.
— Eddie Vedder
It was the patient, cut-flower sound of a man who is waiting to die.
— Patrick Rothfuss
I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in othersyoung clerks in the dusk, wasting the most poignant moments of night and life. — F Scott Fitzgerald
I think that it is death alone that makes things poignant.
— Polly Horvath
Pete Rose is too rich a character to fit on a bronze plaque. He requires a good, trenchant, poignant (ah, Petey) book, and this is it.
— Roy Blount Jr.
And the most poignant thing was not Lolita's absence from my side, but the absence of her voice from the chorus.
— Vladimir Nabokov
You realize that you don't understand yourself any better than you understand anyone else.
— Jonathan Tropper
Nobody wants to be depressed - everybody's trying to feel better; when they strive and fail, it's all the more poignant.
— Joel Kinnaman
Love at a distance may be poignant; it is also idealized. Contact, more than separation, is the test of attachment.
— Ilka Chase
With time the unbearable becomes shocking, becomes sad, and finally becomes poignant.
— Rosanne Cash
...every beautiful and strange event made more poignant for having been photographed.
— Haven Kimmel
Oh, so poignant' said Varys. 'And yet, it is truly said that blood runs truer than oaths
— George R R Martin
I just love the days when you come out of the archives with half a dozen excellent descriptions or poignant accounts of personal experiences.
— Antony Beevor
Everything has a crack in it; that's how the light gets in.
— Leonard Cohen
A father's death is the most important event, the more heartbreaking and poignant loss in a man's life.
— Sigmund Freud
The most amazing thing about young men is how invisible they were to you when you were young. It is also the most poignant.
— Perry Brass
We've got to have rules and obey them. After all, we're not savages. We're English, and the English are best at everything.
— William Golding
A poignant paradox is that sometimes the very desire to be a good mother or father will lead the parent to mistake duty for love.
— William Watson Purkey
And yet I feel that the most real home I'll ever have is the space where our roads merged and traveled along together ... for a time.
— Craig Thompson
Art, music, and philosophy are merely poignant examples of what we might have been had not the priests and traders gotten hold of us.
— George Carlin
What magic scale childhood does make of raw reality.
— Brendan Cowell
Alison's grandfather told her,'To err is human, to forgive divine
— Diane Griffith
I only photograph myself at poignant moments in my life as a check of where I am and how large my thighs are.
— Sam Taylor-Johnson
To my mind the most poignant mystical exhoration ever written is "Be still and know that I am God."
— Arnold Bennett
