How it happened that Mastro Cherry, carpenter, found a piece of wood that wept and laughed like a child.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The weeping of an heir is laughter in disguise.
Those who knew Lincoln described him as an extraordinarily funny man. Humor was an essential aspect of his temperament. He laughed, he explained, so he did not weep.
You get tragedy where the tree, instead of bending, breaks.
I remember that, at an early age, I spent many months making a three-masted sailing boat with rigging in a half-walnut shell.
Between his eyes, there were four lines, the marks of such misery as children should never feel. He spoke with that wonderful whisky voice that so many Spanish children have, and he was a tough and entire little boy.
With 'Ed Wood,' I sobbed. With 'Frankenweenie,' I was crying. With 'Edward Scissorhands,' I always cry. There's always an incredible amount of purity, even if they look a certain way.
So she went into the garden to cut a cabbage-leaf, to make an apple-pie; and at the same time a great she-bear, coming up the street, pops its head into the shop. 'What! no soap?' So he died, and she very imprudently married the barber.
Walt Disney always said, 'For every laugh, there should be a tear.' I believe in that.
The whole wood seemed running now, running hard, hunting, chasing, closing in round something or - somebody? In panic, he began to run too, aimlessly, he knew not whither.
As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree,' probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.