Climax: It's all downhill from here.

I have never heard enough classical music to be able to enjoy it; & the simple truth is, I detest it. Not mildly, but…

— Mark Twain

I love the pure, peaceable, and impartial Christianity of Christ; I therefore hatethe corrupt, slaveholding, women-whipping, cradle-plundering, partial, and hypocritical Christianity of this land.…

— Frederick Douglass

'Prom' is a movie that follows a bunch of high-schoolers' lives leading up to the prom, the climax of the movie. It focuses all…

— Cameron Monaghan

Going nowhere fast. We've reached the climax.

— Usher

“And in that full day, while Jed slept and woke and worked and loved, the forces in the world around him rushed headlong toward…

— Michael Bunker

I don't view any of the hits I've ever written as the climax of my career. They're just minor stepping stones.

— Jon Bellion

Think 'Game of Thrones.' In the old days, this sort of show might be considered bad writing. It doesn't really seem to be moving…

— Douglas Rushkoff

The climax of absurdity to which art may be carried when led away from nature by fashion, may be best seen in the works…

— John Constable

Even the classics that we read to our young children are full of wolves' fangs and burning ovens and bloody feet and ice shards…

— Geraldine Brooks

More than working toward the book's climax, I work toward the denouement. As a reader and a writer, that's where I find the real…

— Greg van Eekhout

Oh, is this the climax? Well, I hope you don't mind if I fake it! -Buffy Gilmore

— Scary Movie

“I’m pretty sure I had a romance novel climax.”

— Jade C. Jamison

“A plot-structure is a series of integrated, logically connected events, moved by a central purpose, leading to the resolution of a climax.”

— Barbara Branden

The dog is dressed just like me at the climax of my act.

— Gypsy Rose Lee

The climax of terror is reached when the police state begins to devour its own children, when yesterday's executioner becomes today's victim.

— Hannah Arendt