“Holmes laughed. "Watson insists that I am the dramatist in real life," said he. "Some touch of the artist wells up within… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
There's a conventional reaction when you see a star: You anticipate he'll be a part of a particular denouement down the road,… — Kathryn Bigelow Copy Share Image
“A new story begins the moment an old one ends. But a denouement is a respite that calls us to stop the… — Dan B. Allender Copy Share Image
Here was the astounding fact: the race did go forward; the race did achieve; and in every way the race grew better.… — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
One dictionary defines denouement as "a final part in which everything is made clear and no questions or surprises remain." By that… — Pseudonymous Bosch Copy Share Image
Life doesn't have plots and subplots and denouements. It's just a big collection of loose ends and dangling threads that never get… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
Do not permit yourself to fall in love with the end-game play to the exclusion of entire games. It is well to… — Emanuel Lasker Copy Share Image
“A denouement is not a complete or fully resolved ending but a satisfying closure to a story. [in French translates 'an untying,… — Dan B. Allender Copy Share Image
Sometimes I feel that I am destined always to be offstage whenever the main action occurs. That God has made me the… — Jonathan Coe Copy Share Image
Anticlimax is, of course, the warp and way of things. Real life seldom structures a decent denouement. — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
So I think there is one rule every host and hostess ought to keep with the comb and nail file and bicarbonate… — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
I think the success of 'Downton' is partly because there are effectively 18 leading characters, all given equal importance, so it's enormously… — Michelle Dockery Copy Share Image
A young professor I watched in action at one of our large eastern colleges used to stand with his back to the… — Mary Barnett Gilson Copy Share Image
A major boom in real stock prices in the US after Black Tuesday brought them halfway back to 1929 levels by 1930.… — Robert J. Shiller Copy Share Image
After reading Edgar Allan Poe. Something the critics have not noticed: a new literary world pointing to the literature of the 20th… — Jules de Goncourt Copy Share Image
The human drama is reaching its denouement. The great unveiling is approaching, a time when the power structures of the world begin… — Anodea Judith Copy Share Image
It might be useful to be able to predict war. But tension does not necessarily lead to war, but often to peace… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
