Climax Quotes

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The most emphatic place in a clause or sentence is the end. This is the climax; and, during the momentary pause that follows, that last… — F L Lucas
I have never heard enough classical music to be able to enjoy it; & the simple truth is, I detest it. Not mildly, but will… — Mark Twain
Have you noticed ... there is never any third act in a nightmare? They bring you to a climax of terror and then leave you… — Max Beerbohm
Medications can lower a woman's sex drive and interfere with a woman's ability to climax. These medications include antidepressants, birth control pills and hormone medications.… — Drew Pinsky
You need a good fantasy to boost arousal enough to climax... thinking about what you should make for dinner tomorrow during sex is not going… — Gail Saltz
The climax of absurdity to which art may be carried when led away from nature by fashion, may be best seen in the works of… — John Constable
Psychic health depends on orgastic potency, i.e., upon the degree to which one can surrender to and experience the climax of excitation in the natural… — Wilhelm Reich
Good colour really means good taste; and 'powerful' colour means a reserve, to give a climax its full force, and not 'red, white, and blue… — John F. Carlson
We want a story that starts out with an earthquake and works its way up to a climax. — Samuel Goldwyn
I find that kid actors are great reminders of the simplicity of acting. As you get older, you can sometimes complicate things a little more.… — Hugh Jackman
But it is true that sometimes an enveloping darkness aids one to clearer vision; as in a panorama building, for example, where the obscurity about… — Pierre Loti
I like to compare the holiday season with the way a child listens to a favorite story. The pleasure is in the familiar way the… — Fred Rogers
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 toward… — Douglas Rushkoff
If one wanted to depict the whole thing graphically, every episode, with its climax, would require a three-dimensional, or, rather, no model: every experience is… — Italo Calvino
one of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twentyâˆ’one that everything afterward savors of antiâˆ’climax. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
The conventional parabola--sentiment, the touch of the hand, the kiss, the passionate kiss, the feel of the body, the climax in the bed, then more… — Ian Fleming
No, life cannot be understood flat on a page. It has to be lived; a person has to get out of his head, has to… — Donald Miller
But you could not have pure love or pure lust nowadays. No emotion was pure, because everything was mixed up with fear and hatred. Their… — George Orwell
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. Indeed,… — Frederick Douglass
Marriage, which has been the bourne of so many narratives, is still a great beginning, as it was to Adam and Eve, who kept their… — George Eliot

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