Dramatic Quotes - Page 35

• Dad was an amazing storyteller and illustrator, which he did in his spare time - very inspiring and dramatic.

  Bat for Lashes

  Dad, Lashes, Spare Time

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I kept arguing that 'love is the most important force, love is the most important force.' So I wanted to show him loving. Sometimes it's dramatic: it means you lay down your life. But sometimes it means making sure someone's trunk is packed and hoping they'll be O.K. at school.

  J. K. Rowling

  School, Mean, Love Is

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• There were horrendous, dramatic, violent quantities of green slime—oodles of it. It covered Howl completely. It draped his head and shoulders in sticky dollops, heaping on his knees and hands, trickling in glops down his legs, and dripping off the stool in sticky strands. It was in oozing ponds and crawling pools over most of the floor. Long fingers of it had crept into the hearth. It smelled vile.

  Diana Wynne Jones

  Heart, Hands, Long

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• Right up till the 1980s, SF envisioned giant mainframe computers that ran everything remotely, that ingested huge amounts of information and regurgitated it in startling ways, and that behaved (or were programmed to behave) very much like human beings... Now we have 14-year-olds with more computing power on their desktops than existed in the entire world in 1960. But computers in fiction are still behaving in much the same way as they did in the Sixties. That's because in fiction [artificial intelligence] has to follow the laws of dramatic logic, just like human characters.

  Walter Jon Williams

  Character, Years, Law

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• As for my voice, it cannot be categorized-and I like it that way, because I sing things that would be considered in the dramatic, mezzo or spinto range. I like so many different kinds of music that I've never allowed myself the limitations of one particular range.

  Jessye Norman

  Voice, Different, Would Be

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• Ever since ROME, OPEN CITY, I have maintained a conscious, determined endeavor to try to understand the world in which I live, in a spirit of humility and respect for the facts and for history. What as the meaning of ROME, OPEN CITY? We were emerging from the tragedy of the war. We had all taken part in it, for we were all its victims. I sought only to picture the essence of things. I had absolutely no interest in telling a romanticized tale along the usual lives of film drama. The actual facts were each more dramatic than any screen cliche.

  Roberto Rossellini

  War, Drama, Taken

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• Our government has become too responsive to trivial or ephemeral concerns, often at the expense of more important concerns or an erosion of our liberty, and it has made policy priorities more dependent on where TV journalists happen to point their cameras. . . . As a nation we have lost our sense of tragedy, a recognition that bad things happen to good people. A nation that expects the government to prevent churches from burning, to control the price of bread or gasoline, to secure every job, and to find some villain for every dramatic accident, risks an even larger loss of life and liberty.

  William A. Niskanen

  Jobs, Loss, Government

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• My life isn't that dramatic. My dad really loves me, he just can't talk on the phone. He's too crippled and shy, and that's almost harder. He's there and he loves me, and I try and try and try, it's just impossible to have a relationship.

  Joey Lauren Adams

  Dad, Father, Phones

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Merely stating a truth isn't enough. The truth has to be made vivid, interesting, dramatic. You have to use showmanship.

  Dale Carnegie

  Truth, Interesting, Use

  Dale Carnegie (2010). “How To Win Friends and Influence People”, p.182, Simon and Schuster

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• The cynical, caustic, acid-tongued New York drama critic Addison De Witt introduces his protege/date of the moment, a bimbo date and so-called actress named Miss Casswell (Marilyn Monroe) in another very famous line: "Miss Casswell is an actress, a graduate of the Copacabana School of Dramatic Art."

  George Sanders

  Art, New York, Drama

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• Reality television was in some ways being unimaginative at that time. We were excited about the possibilities of the form, to use real people as your stars, to not be about winning, to be about going on complicated, challenging, funny, dramatic journeys.

  John Landgraf

  Stars, Real, Winning

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• Thomas Jefferson believed that to preserve the very foundations of our Nation, we would need dramatic change from time to time. Well, my fellow Americans, this is our time. Let us embrace it.

  William J. Clinton

  Presidential, Foundation, Needs

  Bill Clinton's first inauguration speech, www.aol.com. January 20, 1993.

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• The essence of dramatic form is to let an idea come over people without it being plainly stated. When you say something directly, it's simply not as potent as it is when you allow people to discover it for themselves.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Essence, Ideas, People

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• I really think the biopic thing so rarely works, because peoples lives dont have a dramatic shape that can be satisfying.

  Bill Condon

  Thinking, Shapes, Satisfying

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• I have long been a supporter of the Head Start program because each and every year I witness the dramatic positive impact that early intervention services have on children's lives in my congressional district.

  Lucille Roybal-Allard

  Children, Impact, Years

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• Killing Lincoln is a must-read historical thriller. Bill O'Reilly recounts the dramatic events of the spring of 1865 with such exhilarating immediacy that you will feel like you are walking the streets of Washington DC on the night that John Wilkes Booth shot Abraham Lincoln. This is a hugely entertaining, heart-stopping read.

  Vince Flynn

  Spring, Heart, Night

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• The world is a more engaging and less dramatic place than writers ever give it credit for being

  Richard Ford

  Giving, Credit, World

  Richard Ford (2012). “The Bascombe Novels: The Sportswriter, Independence Day, The Lay of the Land”, p.203, A&C Black

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• My change from girl to boy was far less dramatic than the distance anybody travels from infancy to adulthood.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Girl, Distance, Boys

  Jeffrey Eugenides (2003). “Middlesex”, p.520, A&C Black

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• Any life will seem dramatic if you omit mention of most of it.

  Ann Beattie

  Seems, Ifs

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• This is a huge problem. If we don't deal with this within just a few years, you will have island nations flooded; you will have the agricultural balance of most countries completely changed; you will have a dramatic increase in the number of severe, unmanageable weather events... And the good news is that we can now deal with this problem - and strengthen our economic growth, not weaken it.

  William J. Clinton

  Country, Islands, Years

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• I was so astonished that I could think of nothing to say, but wondered irrelevantly if I was to be caught with a teapot in my hand on every dramatic occasion.

  Barbara Pym

  Thinking, Hands, Caught

  Barbara Pym (1978). “Excellent Women”, Dutton Adult

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• Americans should not expect one battle, but a lengthy campaign, unlike any other we have ever seen. It may include dramatic strikes, visible on TV, and covert operations, secret even in success.

  George W. Bush

  War, Secret, Battle

  Address to Joint Session of Congress Following 9/11 Attacks, delivered 20 September 2001

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• In thinking about miracles, I believe that our frame of reference has been too dramatic. We have been looking for the burning bush, the parting of the sea, the bellowing voice from heaven. Instead we should be looking at the ordinary day-to-day events in our lives for evidence of the miraculous, maintaining at the same time a scientific orientation.

  M. Scott Peck

  Believe, Thinking, Ordinary Days

  M. Scott Peck (2001). “Wisdom from the Road Less Traveled”, p.148, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• Even more dramatic, Alex Todorov at Princeton has shown us that judgments of political candidates' faces in just one second predict 70 percent of U.S. Senate and gubernatorial race outcomes, and even, let's go digital, emoticons used well in online negotiations can lead to you claim more value from that negotiation. If you use them poorly, bad idea. Right? So when we think of nonverbals, we think of how we judge others, how they judge us and what the outcomes are. We tend to forget, though, the other audience that's influenced by our nonverbals, and that's ourselves.

  Amy Cuddy

  Thinking, Ideas, Race

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• How can you put out a meaningful drama when every fifteen minutes proceedings are interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits with toilet paper? No dramatic art form should be dictated and controlled by men whose training and instincts are cut of an entirely different cloth. The fact remains that these gentlemen sell consumer goods, not an art form.

  Rod Serling

  Meaningful, Art, Drama

  "American Masters (Rod Serling: Submitted for Your Approval)". TV Series, November 29, 1995.

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