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Wouldn't this be a great world if insecurity and desperation made us more attractive? — Albert Brooks

In 'The Violinist's Thumb,' I talk about the poignancy of cells leaking across the placenta into both the mother and the child. — Sam Kean

To all that he touched he gave a new meaning, a new color, a new outline, a new loveliness, and a new poignancy. — Frederick Delius

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

Precision is a precise art. Poignancy is pre-eminent and precludes prevarication. — Steven Erikson

I allow myself one more minute to think. To breathe. To convince myself that things are about to get very, very awesome. — Tera Lynn Childs

If you want to reach any kind of poignancy or meaning a lot of times, coming from comedy is the best way to get there. — Matthew Weiner

He believes that words can be a powerful healing tool if used with loving intention, to uplift, encourage and inspire. — John McLeod

Disharmony that comes from circumstances that are valid has tension, poignancy, quality, and beauty. — Robert Venturi

I'd never understood why anyone would want to live forever. It had always seemed to me that death lent life a certain poignancy, a necessary tension. — Karen Marie Moning

Don't fear your mortality, because it is this very mortality that gives meaning and depth and poignancy to all the days that will be granted to you. — Paul Tsongas

Only after you take care of yourself, you become a happy joyful person. — Nina Obran

The (Iraq) war can only be won diplomatically, politically and economically, and the president needs to come to that realization, — Harry Reid

At the opera, the music makes no sense; here in the street it has just the right demented touch to give it poignancy. — Henry Miller

Poignancy (a close cousin of regret) is a counterfactual feeling, which — Daniel Kahneman

Those who pretend to know what they don't, will be thought ignorant of even what they know. — Thiruvalluvar

It's the poignancy and sadness in things that gets to me. — Tracey Ullman

the economically more powerful culture may not be the more powerful culture spiritually and morally. — George E. Tinker

I think at first I wanted to kill all of them. Everyone. Because if there were no people left alive, then I'd never have to love one of them again. — Sarah Porter

Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young. A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us. — Orison Swett Marden

Last time of anything has the poignancy of death itself — Betty Smith

The sages say that life is illusion, but does that change its poignancy? — Ming-Dao Deng

The scene sucker-punched Max. He never saw it coming. It encapsulated in one poignant instant the tragic beauty of his family history. — Sol Luckman

Pathos and poignancy are, to me, tactics and techniques; in my work as a writer, I fetch them from my toolbox and use them as required. — Michel Faber

Mediocrist (n.) A person of mediocre talents. Nobody wants to be mediocre, but someone has to be. In fact, by definition, most people are. Microphily — Ammon Shea

In the fall, she knew it was Death who sweetened the apples. — Martine Leavitt

Never get old. It's a ridiculously uncomfortable process Ath Creator should be made to find a cure for. — Janny Wurts

Sometimes in comedy you can make the audience feel poignancy stronger than you can with tears or anguish. — Shelley Winters

Do you think you can be righteous and holy with impunity? — Jean Racine

There is nothing like wounded affection for giving poignancy to anger. — Elizabeth Gaskell