“Tragedy ought really to be a great kick at misery.”
Letter to A W McLeod (6 October 1912)
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“I don't really. In our business, you're not kicked out necessarily …”
When asked about her retirement.
"Meryl Streep: Movies, marriage, and turning sixty," 2009
FILM: Beauty and the Beasts Article http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20040312/ai_n12769890/pg_1. The London Independent. March 12, 2004.
Guillory speaks about Resident Evil: Apocalypse.
At the end of the last NBC Game of the Week, October 9, 1989
“Now, we shall see the beginning of a great tragedy.”
Quoted in The New York Times (10 July 1884)
“Today the guns are silent. A great tragedy has ended. A great victory has been won.”
1940s, Victory broadcast (1945)
Context: Today the guns are silent. A great tragedy has ended. A great victory has been won. The skies no longer rain with death — the seas bear only commerce — men everywhere walk upright in the sunlight. The entire world lies quietly at peace. The holy mission has been completed. And in reporting this to you, the people, I speak for the thousands of silent lips, forever stilled among the jungles and the beaches and in the deep waters of the Pacific which marked the way.
“The great tragedy of Science — the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.”
Presidential Address at the British Association, "Biogenesis and abiogenesis" (1870) http://aleph0.clarku.edu/huxley/CE8/B-Ab.html; later published in Collected Essays, Vol. 8, p. 229
1870s