The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous. – Shana Alexander
I would never have become music director of the Chicago Symphony, which would have been an extremely sad loss. – Georg Solti
I was sad Jon Ronson, who wrote in the Guardian and has made a TV show for Channel 4, took against me. – Jonathan King
I think that the majority of messages are validating messages to confirm the survival of conscious. And many times that validation message is negative or sad. – John Edward
One of the reasons I wanted to teach deaf children was because it made me very sad that they spoke so clumsily and that they moved with less grace that I knew was possible of deaf people. – Stephanie Beacham
I am not a sad clown. I am not a sad clown. – Nathan Lane
And the sad truth is that nobody wants me to write comedy. The Exorcist not only ended that career, it expunged all memory of its existence. – William Peter Blatty
When I was leaving I kind of felt a little bit sad, because I made some friends down in skid row. – Pras Michel
It always makes me sad when I think of how I saw Wagner wasting his vitality, not only by singing their parts to some of his artists, but acting out the smallest details, and of how few they were who were responsive to his wishes. – Anton Seidl
I wanted to be a dancer my whole life. And when I gave it up to act, I always had a really sad part of myself that missed it and missed performing and missed being physical in that way. – Lyndsy Fonseca
Two or three notes of music can instantly make you feel sad or tense or afraid or angry. To do that in words is much more difficult. – Anthony Daniels
It is a sad commentary that today we face a choice between having schools that are a monument to our past – or schools that will be the lifeblood of our future. But since that is our choice, let us resolve to choose wisely. – Ted Kulongoski
Save for thee and thy lessons, man in society would everywhere sink into a sad compound of the fiend and the wild beast and this fallen world would be as certainly a moral as a natural wilderness. – Hugh Miller
I must have something to engross my thoughts, some object in life which will fill this vacuum, and prevent this sad wearing away of the heart. – Elizabeth Blackwell
The flesh, alas, is sad, and I have read all the books. – Stephane Mallarme
The world would be a very sad place if readers could only love one story. – Sylvia Day
One of the sad commentaries on the way women are viewed in our society is that we have to fit one category. I have never felt that I had to be in one category. – Faye Wattleton
We all had lots of stories of our sad experiences – they mourned the death of my wife with me – but we were hopeful that the children would return. – Otto Frank
We all remember where we were and we all remember what we were doing. I had a brother in New York, an uncle, lots of friends in New York. It made me angry, it made me sad what could I do. – Timothy Bottoms
When this sad war is over we will all return to our homes, and feel that we can ask no higher honor than the proud consciousness that we belonged to the Army of the Potomac. – George B. McClellan
