If a man went simply by what he saw, he might be tempted to affirm that the essence of democracy is melodrama. — Irving Babbitt Copy Share Image
For the broadcast business to be successful, viewers need to be not merely interested in our political melodramas, they have to be… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
You know, I might miss some of your witticisms when you’re gone, but one thing I won’t miss? Your overwhelming sense of… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
Being in the moment means not being distracted by the melodrama and hysteria around you. Present-moment awareness allows solutions to emerge. — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
I'm obsessive about the kind of melodrama of getting through the days and trying to make them good and funny and a… — Tom Baker Copy Share Image
A lot of '20s musicals were a hodgepodge of melodrama, mixed with operetta and romance, and then some sense of modernism and… — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
As a songwriter, I was really into pulling away from the melodrama and the overdramatic type of writing that I was previously… — Katie Stelmanis Copy Share Image
When I was a teenager in Milwaukee in the 1980s, life was pretty boring, and I found myself riveted by the sheer… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
I cry all the time when I watch 'Glee' because I don't know if it's satire or melodrama and that makes me… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
The world sometimes feels like an insane asylum. You can decide whether you want to be an inmate or pick up your… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
“We need to get out," I said. My voice sounded raw to me. "Trouble coming." "No," said a beautiful Sidhe baritone. "Trouble… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
“We seem to be unable to resist overstating every aspect of ourselves: how long we are on the planet for, how much… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
I think that's what distinguishes Schmidt, really. In the movies now, so much of what is appealing to an audience is the… — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
I've always loved Victorian melodrama. And I've always liked larger-than-life theater, providing it's truthful and honest. I like what the theater can… — Harold Prince Copy Share Image
I define melodrama as truth uninhibited. It's the kind of truth we dream about. Rather than melodrama being exaggerated, it's actually uninhibited.… — Guy Maddin Copy Share Image
There's a real tension between it being a collaborative art process, which is almost like performance art of yourself, and, as we… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
But the truth of the matter is, that was fairly, fairly early on in Goebbels' 800 movies that he made in Germany.… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
Melodrama is one of the most stunning art forms. These are stories where the emotions are big, and the situations are big,… — James Gray Copy Share Image
I work intentionally to try and make dense, complex things. We can move between genres and forms, from something that looks like… — Elizabeth Price Copy Share Image
I barely watch TV apart from the news. Most of it is rubbish. There's all this reality nonsense and dross. I think… — Larry Hagman Copy Share Image
So slowly in my mind formed the idea of melodrama, a form I found to perfection in American pictures. They were naive,… — Douglas Sirk Copy Share Image
All the political angst and moral melodrama about getting 'the rich' to pay 'their fair share' is part of a big charade.… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“She often felt like she had been cast in a supporting role with the film that was Louise. And there was more… — Kerri Thomson Copy Share Image
I love 'Glee.' I cry all the time when I watch 'Glee' because I don't know if it's satire or melodrama and… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
We see daily that our lives are terrible and little, without continuity, buyable and salable at any moment, mere blips on a… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Golf is 20 percent mechanics and technique. The other 80 pecent is philosophy, humor, tragedy, romance, melodrama, companionship, camaraderie, cussedness and conversation. — Grantland Rice Copy Share Image
“This is historic. This is generational,’ Dani said. Leo stared at the collapsing rally with awe. Jeff made a strangled noise. ‘I… — Belinda Kelderhouse Copy Share Image
“Say what you like about melodrama, it beats confusion. The truth is we ought have a chance to say a little something… — Leif Enger Copy Share Image
“I extract significance from melodrama, a significance which it does not in fact contain; but occasionally, from out of this matter, there… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
THIS ACTION THAT I FORESEE has nothing to do with melodrama It is that life as lived by me now is a… — Francesca Woodman Copy Share Image
He had the air of a spy in a melodrama, missing nothing, liking nothing, looking forward to the great day when everything… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Commercialism is laying its great greasy paw upon everything including the irresponsible quest of thrills; so that, whatever democracy may be theoretically,… — Irving Babbitt Copy Share Image
I thought that jealousy was an idea. It isn't. It's a pain. But I didn't feel as they do in a Broadway… — Floyd Dell Copy Share Image
Shredded feelings are the fuel that feed the machinery of melodrama. And good melodrama just has honest feelings and is honest about… — Guy Maddin Copy Share Image
“Ma was out back, head in hands, weaving in and out of her heaped-up crap. It was both melodramatic and not. I… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Ever since I worked on 'Buffy', it's always helped me to find a genre container for something, and I was like, 'Oh,… — Marti Noxon Copy Share Image
If you believe, as the Greeks did, that man is at the mercy of the gods, then you write tragedy. The end… — Lillian Hellman Copy Share Image
“You have more zeal than good taste, Martín. The disease afflicting you has a name, and that is Grand Guignol : it… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
“We all know starry-eyed romantics like love stories, but few would argue early and intense exposure to sappy melodrama causes a romantic… — Gerard Jones Copy Share Image
“The quirky little melodrama that unfolded in Bosnia on 28 June 1914 played the same role in the history of the world… — Max Hastings Copy Share Image
