Dramatic Quotes
668 quotes by 607 authors
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But I also know that sometimes Adam needs to do things the dramatic way. He is fond of the Grand Gesture
— Gayle Forman
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It is our inward journey that leads us through time – forward or back, seldom in a straight line, most often spiraling. Each of us…
— Eudora Welty
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You'll call me Damon. I see no need for dramatic titles. I, on the other hand will call you beautiful, lover, mine. I'll call you…
— Maya Banks
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It occurred to me that I was standing face to face with the hero of a love story nearly as dramatic as my own.
— Richelle Mead
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They say asteroids hit the moon pretty often, which is how the moon gets its crater, but this one is going to be the biggest…
— Susan Beth Pfeffer
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God isn't interested in watching you enact some performance of personality in order to comply with some crackpot notion you have about how a spiritual…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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You know, Miss Holly, you look very dramatic like that, backlit by the fire. Very attractive, if I may say so. I know you shared…
— Eoin Colfer
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Did you really JUST fall, Jeffrey? Why does everybody in my family talk in these dramatic CAPITAL LETTERS all the time? Why am I the…
— Jordan Sonnenblick
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Many...have learned that the magnitude of lives is not as to their external displacements, but as to their subjective experiences. The impressionable peasant leads a…
— Thomas Hardy
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I deliberately and consciously give preference to a dramatic, mythological way of thinking and speaking, because this is not only more expressive but also more…
— Carl Jung
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The demon bared its greenish fangs. "This is my true form. An ugly surprise for you, I suppose." "I daresay it's an improvement," said Will.…
— Cassandra Clare
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It is not easy to convey, unless one has experienced it, the dramatic feeling of sudden enlightenment that floods the mind when the right idea…
— Francis Crick
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When we reached the beach, Leif fell to his knees with a dramatic cry. "Solid ground! I'll never take you for granted again." "Are you…
— Maria V. Snyder
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A frivolous society can acquire dramatic significance only through what its frivolity destroys.
— Edith Wharton
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It's very dramatic when two people come together to work something out. It's easy to take a gun and annihilate your opposition, but what is…
— Fred Rogers
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From a tale one expects a bit of wildness, of exaggeration and dramatic effect. The tale has no inherent concern with decorum, balance or harmony.…
— Peter Straub
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She wasn't as destructive as Bee. She had never been as dramatic. Rather, she'd slipped carefully, stealthily away from her ghosts.
— Ann Brashares
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Simply put, dramatic irony is when a person makes a harmless remark, and someone else who hears it knows something that makes the remark have…
— Daniel Handler
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I don’t know. After the downstairs, I assumed something creepier and dirtier.†I shrugged. “You didn’t have electricity down there.†“It’s for dramatic effect.†Loki…
— Amanda Hocking
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Standing here, in this quiet house where I can hear the birds chirping out back, I think I’m kind of getting the concept of closure.…
— Gayle Forman
Who Wrote These Dramatic Quotes
607 authors contributed a total of 668 Dramatic Quotes, led by these top contributors: