In 18th-century Scotland, the main event was the Jacobite…

One of the deepest and strangest of all human moods is the mood which will suddenly strike us perhaps in a garden at night,…

— Anonymous

I think if I have any kind of unique gift, it's more in the comedy area than it is in the dramatic area.

— Susan Sullivan

A counted number of pulses only is given to us of a variegated, dramatic life. How may we see in them all that is…

— Walter Pater

Sure, I’m dramatic and sloppily semi-cynical and semi-sentimental. But, in leisure years I could grow and choose my way. Now I am living on…

— Sylvia Plath

There is a comfort zone of knowing where things are going and having characters in place, but the action gets more and more dramatic…

— Jerry B. Jenkins

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

— Bill Condon

“I am yours. It's both as dramatic and as simple as that.”

— Erica Ridley

My illness is one often characterized by dramatic overspending - in my case through frenzied shopping sprees, credit card abuse, excessive hoarding of unnecessary…

— Andy Behrman

We have committed ourselves to pursue joint policies, but then national governments say, "We aren't bound by that." That is a dramatic situation, because…

— Martin Schulz

Failure in the theater is more dramatic and uglier than any other form of writing. It costs so much, you feel so guilty.

— Lillian Hellman

Schengen cannot survive without the most dramatic reform, and the external borders of Europe must be rapidly strengthened.

— Nicholas Soames

In 2008, Bitcoin was mysteriously introduced to the world in an obscure, technical paper written under the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto. By late 2013, the…

— Steve Hanke

I was going to say 'my friend Stuart', but I suppose he's not a friend any more. I seem to have lost a number…

— Jonathan Coe

I think that I originally became an actor because I was super, super dramatic. Over the top, all the time. I was the kid…

— Alanna Masterson

Maybe my movie isn't over, I say, because sometimes moviemakers trick the audience with a false bad ending, and just when you think the…

— Matthew Quick