Dramatic Quotes - Page 36

• Stephen Schlesinger’s Act of Creation tells a dazzling story of the dramatic events that have shaped the world in which we live. Never has a book been more relevant to present dangers and future hopes.

  James Chace

  Book, Events, Stories

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• Perhaps the single most dramatic example of this phenomenon of software eating a traditional business is the suicide of Borders and corresponding rise of Amazon

  Marc Andreessen

  Suicide, Example, Borders

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• Somewhat dramatic things happen, and you don't even always notice them — that's what life is.

  Alexander Payne

  Life Is, Happens, Things Happen

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• The essence of dramatic tragedy is not unhappiness. It resides in the solemnity of the remorseless working of things.

  Garrett Hardin

  Essence, Tragedy, Unhappiness

  Garrett James Hardin (1995). “The Immigration Dilemma: Avoiding the Tragedy of the Commons”, F A I R-Federation for American Immigration Reform

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• It is probable that television drama of high caliber and produced by first-rate artists will materially raise the level of dramatic taste of the nation.

  David Sarnoff

  Drama, Artist, Television

  David Sarnoff (1948). “Pioneering in television, prophecy and fulfillment: excerpts from speeches and statements”

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• A play's got to be a dramatic event, not a lyrical event. It's not music, it's not poetry, it's not dance, it's not narrative - it's dramaticit's about conflict. It's about forces coming together.

  Romulus Linney

  Play, Together, Events

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• I just don't think there are any rules to color. You have a small space with no windows? Put lamps in there, make it dramatic, paint the ceiling black. Do something with it. If it's dark, accentuate the darkness.

  David Bromstad

  Dark, Thinking, Color

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• I was chomping at the bit to get my career started - so after I took all the theater courses at Brooklyn College I enrolled in a two year program at AMDA in the city (The American Musical Dramatic Academy) I was there for 6 months and loved it.

  Didi

  College, Two, Years

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• Everybody says how hard comedy is, but, when it comes time to honor things, whether it's on a weekly critical basis or whether it's award time, at that time of the year, comedy is the poor, dumb child of dramatic work.

  Ivan Reitman

  Children, Awards, Years

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• It is utterly impossible to divorce the story of student awakenings from the course of missions in countries overseas. From the beginning, one of the most immediate and dramatic effects of college revivals has been the recruitment of personnel for the work of Christ abroad.

  J. Edwin Orr

  Country, Divorce, College

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• Nearly everyone is aware of dramatic changes in the world. Yet we continue to live in the assumption that we can ride out the changes without changing ourselves, coasting, as we have always coasted, on the historic wave of human development. What it will take to wake us up is a wave of equal size traveling in the opposite direction. That wave is already on its way.

  Verlyn Klinkenborg

  Opposites, Development, World

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• The discovery in 1846 of the planet Neptune was a dramatic and spectacular achievement of mathematical astronomy. The very existence of this new member of the solar system, and its exact location, were demonstrated with pencil and paper; there was left to observers only the routine task of pointing their telescopes at the spot the mathematicians had marked.

  James R Newman

  Math, Discovery, Achievement

  James R. Newman (2000). “The World of Mathematics”, p.820, Рипол Классик

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• With the goal of crafting a course that fits harmoniously with its surroundings, we took full advantage of the dramatic vistas, indigenous flora and beautiful rolling terrain to create a memorable golf experience for members and resort guests.

  Pete Dye

  Beautiful, Memorable, Golf

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• I don’t recommend that average iPad Air owners upgrade to the Air 2. But what about the vast majority of iPad owners who own older models? That’s a different story. If you have an iPad 2, 3 or 4, the new Air 2 will make a big difference. Its thinness and lightness will be a dramatic change, and it will be faster and more fluid. However, here’s the catch: Upgrading to last year’s iPad Air would have pretty much the same effect, and that model is now, suddenly, $100 cheaper, starting at $399.

  Walt Mossberg

  Air, Average, Years

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• Calculus is the outcome of a dramatic intellectual struggle which has lasted for twenty-five hundred years.

  Richard Courant

  Struggle, Years, Intellectual

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• Like most writers I know, I love being on stage. I’ve sublimated the dramatic urge by teaching and by making people laugh.

  Francine du Plessix Gray

  Teaching, Love Is, People

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• When I started off as an actress, I did at a play at the Taper Too Theatre here in Los Angeles, called 'In The Abyss Of Coney Island.' That was more of a dramatic play. It was a small theater house. This was the first time I was literally on the road, doing a play, for four months.

  Vivica Fox

  Islands, Play, House

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, film.avclub.com. February 17, 2010.

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• I look for two things when I am about to launch into a book. First, there has to be a dramatic arc to the story itself that will carry me, and the reader, from beginning to end. Second, the story has to weave through larger themes that can illuminate the world of the subject.

  David Maraniss

  Book, Two, Looks

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• Is that what I wanted? To be in the middle of something complicated and dramatic? To be a cheerleader for someone else’s romance? Or to have a romance of my own?

  Kate Klise

  Romance, Cheerleader, Complicated

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• Your novels show only the tiniest fraction of detective work, the brilliant crime, the tantalizing clues, the dramatic chase, the final battle atop a lofty peak with ocean waves crashing down below, and then… justice served! If they wrote about the real world, four-fifths of the story would consist of the hero sitting in a library for months and following false leads.

  Stefan Petrucha

  Real, Hero, Ocean

  Stefan Petrucha (2012). “Ripper”, Penguin

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• [A dramatic increase in regulation under the Obama administration is] threatening to short-circuit our recovery and undermine our long-term growth....More importantly , it is suffocating the entrepreneurial spirit so vital to America's success.

  Tom J. Donohue

  Recovery, America, Long

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• A theological time bomb, set to go off with dramatic consequences.

  George Weigel

  Bombs, Theological, Time Bomb

  George Weigel (2009). “Witness to Hope: The Biography of Pope John Paul II”, p.343, Zondervan

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• Batteries are the most dramatic object. Other things stop working or they break, But Batteries... They Die.

  Demetri Martin

  Batteries, Break, Objects

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• Muhammad's is one of those rare lives that is more dramatic in reality than in legend. In fact the less one invokes the miraculous, the more extraordinary his life becomes. What emerges is something grander precisely because it is human, to the extent that his actual life reveals itself worthy of the word 'legendary'.

  Lesley Hazleton

  Reality, Legends, Facts

  Lesley Hazleton (2013). “The First Muslim: The Story of Muhammad”, p.14, Penguin

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• The dramatic importance of climate changes to the world’s future has been dangerously underestimated by many, often because we have been lulled by modern technology into thinking we have conquered nature. This well-written book points out in clear language that the climatic threat could be as awesome as any we might face, and that massive world-wide actions to hedge against that threat deserve immediate consideration.

  Stephen Schneider

  Book, Thinking, Technology

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