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.
Next to a circus there ain't nothing that packs up and tears out faster than the Christmas spirit.
I never did pal around with actresses. Their talk usually bored me to tears.
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.
Pearls mean tears.
The recipe to an unhappy life in Japan is to want to be Japanese if you are not. Anyone who wants to penetrate the country is setting themselves up for tears and disappointment.
Nothing but a miracle of sovereign mercy could have arrested and saved me from eternal perdition. How I could have so long resisted the entreaties, the prayers, and the tears of my dear parents, and the influences of the Holy Spirit, is, to me, a wonder entirely incomprehensible.
When the object that is produced, the photographic image has the ability to make tears come to your eyes; to inspire you to the point where you have to catch your breath, then nothing else matters.
Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.
The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled.
I remember playing games and having tears roll down my face because it felt like it was never going to be good enough.
I remember being about eight and watching 'Pollyanna' with Hayley Mills. I looked at my mum and said, 'Mum, I want to be Pollyanna.' She said, 'You're going to have to make yourself cry if you want to be an actress.' So I turned my head away, and when I turned it back I was in floods of tears.
I've always been able to transform happiness and pain and sorrow and tears into positive energy.
I cannot tell you how many people, powerful people, come to my studio and they are in tears they are so moved by what they see.
And the smile that is worth the praises of earth is the smile that shines through tears.
If you have tears, prepare to shed them now.
Nobody likes a presenter melting in a self-indulgent puddle of tears.
In my 20s, I used to cry about why I wasn't thinner or prettier, but I want to add that I also used to cry about things like, 'I wish my hair would grow faster. I wish I had different shoes...' I was an idiot... It's a decade of tears.
I get bored with the constant probing for the cliched tears of the clown, the dark side of the comic.
Bread pudding makes me weak. I have been known to be moved to tears by cookies and ice cream, and ribs are a spiritual experience for me.
