Pastoral Resources

Tears are the noble language of the eye.

Disney has the best casting. If he doesn't like an actor he just tears him up.

I have seen what a laugh can do. It can transform almost unbearable tears into something bearable, even hopeful.

Next to a circus there ain't nothing that packs up and tears out faster than the Christmas spirit.

Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.

Sympathizing and selfish people are alike, both given to tears.

There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.

Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

For women's tears are but the sweat of eyes.

In art there are tears that lie too deep for thought.

Without going into too much detail, the end of my major action scene, after the climax of the scene, there was one little change that I suggested regarding the way things should turn out. It was in the detail of the tears of blood.

Oh eyes, no eyes, but fountains fraught with tears; O life, no life, but lively form of death; Oh world, no world, but mass of public wrongs.

And that's why I chose on purpose not to have a death scene. We've seen them in a million movies and it's too much like cranking the tears out. I didn't want that scene.

We make the kind of movies we like to watch. I love to laugh. I love to be amazed by how beautiful it is. But I also love to be moved to tears. There's lots of heart in our films.

Pearls mean tears.

It is acceptable to bring someone to tears if it explains to them in an emotional way why a product, a service, or a candidate is the right person, is the right thing to do.

When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.

When a child can be brought to tears, and not from fear of punishment, but from repentance he needs no chastisement. When the tears begin to flow from the grief of their conduct you can be sure there is an angel nestling in their heart.

Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.

When onstage, I always try to take my audience through as many emotions as I possibly can. I want them to go from laughter to tears, be shocked and surprised and walk out the door with a renewed sense of themselves - and maybe a smile.