“That was melodramatic, of course. Pure hyperbole. But if hyperbole couldn’t feel free to roam in his head, where could it roam?… — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
“Neither would you, had you grown up in a library of melodramatic romance novels.” — Clementine Holzinger Copy Share Image
He did not care upon what terms he satisfied his passion. He had even a mad, melodramatic idea to drug her. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Your obvious need forattention and melodramatic acting sort of trumped my disfigurement.” — Lindy Zart Copy Share Image
“To the connoisseur of scenes, nothing is more enjoyable than a thorough, melodramatic, egoistic humility.” — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
The whole melodrama of the Middle East would be improved if amnesia were as common here as it is in melodramatic plots. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Melodrama and melodramatic are not the same thing, and often people make the mistake of confusing the two. — James Gray Copy Share Image
As cheesy and melodramatic as it might sound, love excites me more than anything... in all its forms. — Haley Strode Copy Share Image
Melodrama is something that is created... I don't seen a melodramatic episode of '90210' or any show that relies on that and… — Peter Horton Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I think I am fate’s sword. She wields me cruelly.” Quentin wondered what it was like to be so unselfconsciously melodramatic.… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
Melodrama is one of my working tools and it enables me to obtain effects that would be unobtainable otherwise; on the other… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“If this all sounds melodramatic, well that, too, isn’t a bad metaphor for anxiety—as a kind of drama queen of the mind.… — Daniel B. Smith Copy Share Image
Since I'm not a second Marx or Freud who can offer people alternatives, I have to let them keep their own wrong… — Rainer Werner Fassbinder Copy Share Image
You could go so wrong with a 'Planet of the Apes' reboot; you could make it melodramatic, you could make it campy,… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
Cop shows are by definition melodramatic; they're larger than life. They create very stark contrasts and conflicts emotionally. They're provocative, assuming they… — Steven Bochco Copy Share Image
I remember in school - in elementary school - I used to recite poems. We'd have to recite poems. And I would… — Cecile McLorin Salvant Copy Share Image
“Disclosures of childhood sexual abuse have frequently been discredited through the diagnosis of hysteria. In this view, women/female children were seen either… — Judith L. Alpert Copy Share Image
I didn't even know a heart could beat so loudly...it reminds me of an Edgar Allen Poe story we had to read… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
My parents know that I have always been sort of a dark melodramatic kid, so they were never concerned. — Matt Berninger Copy Share Image
And I don't believe that melodramatic feelings are laughable - they should be taken absolutely seriously. — Rainer Werner Fassbinder Copy Share Image
“Now you’re being melodramatic. Must be part of the Shadow charm—all dark and gloomy.” — Jayde Scott Copy Share Image
“Your obvious need for attention and melodramatic acting sort of trumped my disfigurement.” — Lindy Zart Copy Share Image
The thing about romance and romantic movies is that they can be somewhat melodramatic. For a lot of actors, there's a certain… — David Lyons Copy Share Image
I think writers can get a little melodramatic sometimes about their work, and it helps me not to do that, to just… — Donald Miller 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
You could argue that 'Sweeney Todd' was romantic, if you looked closely at it, but it didn't impart that to its audiences.… — Harold Prince Copy Share Image
I think the idea was to make a horror film that became a science-fiction film with a lot of melodramatic tropes. — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
“The history of hysteria is a history of the relation between the colonizing father and the colonized devalued other.” — Judith L. Alpert Copy Share Image
“I could hear my dogs barking. Worse I could hear bleating. Joyful goat chuckles of freedom. "The goats!" I clutched my head,… — Rosemary Clement-Moore Copy Share Image