Climax Quotes

91 quotes by 83 authors

Even the classics that we read to our young children are full of wolves' fangs and burning ovens and bloody feet and ice shards piercing… — Geraldine Brooks
The great age of the earth will appear greater to man when he understands the origin of living organisms and the reasons for the gradual… — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
Enlightenment is always through surrender, but surrender is achieved through intelligence. Only idiots cannot surrender. To surrender you need great intelligence. To see the point… — Rajneesh
Live each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance toward the summit keeps the goal in mind, but many beautiful scenes are… — Fulton J. Sheen
I hate outlines. I have a broad sense of where the story is going; I know the end, I know the end of the principal… — George R. R. Martin
Dialogue, contrary to popular view, is not a recording of actual speech; it is a semblance of speech, an invented language of exchanges that build… — Sol Stein
Dreading that climax of all human ills the inflammation of his weekly bills. — Lord Byron
Every picture should have a place you can go, a home, a climax. — Jay Maisel
In the menu, there should be a climax and a culmination. Come to it gently. One will suffice. — Alice B. Toklas
To call it an anticlimax would be an insult not only to climaxes but to prefixes. It's a crummy secret, about one step up the… — Roger Ebert
Steven Erikson is an extraordinary writer. I read Gardens of the Moon with great pleasure. And now that I have read it, I would be… — Stephen R. Donaldson
Plotting is like sex. Plotting is about desire and satisfaction, anticipation and release. You have to arouse your reader's desire to know what happens, to… — Colin Greenland
Plotting isn't like sex, because you can go back and adjust it afterwards. Whether you plan your story beforehand or not, if the climax turns… — Colin Greenland
Careless of waste, wallowing in refuse, exterminating the enemies . . . despising age, denying human natural history, fabricating pseudotraditions, swamped in the repeated personal… — Paul Shepard
Consciousness is a pitiful hostage of its flesh-envelope, whose surges, circuits, and secret murmurings it cannot stay or speed. This is the chthonian drama that… — Camille Paglia
Hannibal at eighteen was rooting for Mephistopheles and contemptuous of Faust, but he only half-listened to the climax. He was watching and breathing Lady Murasaki... — Thomas Harris
Both God's love and God's wrath are ratcheted up in the move from the old covenant to the new, from the Old Testament to the… — D. A. Carson
The mark of the modern world is the imagination of its profiteers and the counter-assertiveness of the oppressed. Exploitation and the refusal to accept exploitation… — Immanuel Wallerstein
I was brought up in Florida, so there isn't much difference between playing there and playing here. The climax are about the same. — Mickey Rivers
When the healthy nature of man acts as a whole, when he feels himself to be in the world as in a great, beautiful, noble,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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