Dramatic Quotes

668 quotes by 607 authors

I really think the biopic thing so rarely works, because peoples lives dont have a dramatic shape that can be satisfying. — Bill Condon
I have long been a supporter of the Head Start program because each and every year I witness the dramatic positive impact that early intervention… — Lucille Roybal-Allard
Jackie Gleason said that comedy is the most exacting form of dramatic art, because it has an instant critic: laughter. — Chuck Jones
Killing Lincoln is a must-read historical thriller. Bill O'Reilly recounts the dramatic events of the spring of 1865 with such exhilarating immediacy that you will… — Vince Flynn
For many of us, conversion is an ongoing process and not a onetime event that results from a powerful or dramatic experience. Line upon line… — David A. Bednar
The world is a more engaging and less dramatic place than writers ever give it credit for being — Richard Ford
My change from girl to boy was far less dramatic than the distance anybody travels from infancy to adulthood. — Jeffrey Eugenides
Do not accept the roles that society foists on you. Re-create yourself by forging a new identity, one that commands attention and never bores the… — Robert Greene
Any life will seem dramatic if you omit mention of most of it. — Ann Beattie
This is a huge problem. If we don't deal with this within just a few years, you will have island nations flooded; you will have… — William J. Clinton
Sometimes I have experienced God in extraordinary ways - in dramatic surprises or soul-expanding insights or unexplainable mystical encounters. More often, I have felt God's… — Brian D. McLaren
A passion for the dramatic art is inherent in the nature of man. — Edwin Forrest
I was so astonished that I could think of nothing to say, but wondered irrelevantly if I was to be caught with a teapot in… — Barbara Pym
Americans should not expect one battle, but a lengthy campaign, unlike any other we have ever seen. It may include dramatic strikes, visible on TV,… — George W. Bush
The self... is not an organic thing that has a specific location, whose fundamental fate is to be born, to mature, to die; it is… — Erving Goffman
Justification is the truly dramatic transition from the status of a condemned criminal awaiting a terrible sentence to that of an heir awaiting a fabulous… — J I Packer
In thinking about miracles, I believe that our frame of reference has been too dramatic. We have been looking for the burning bush, the parting… — M. Scott Peck
Even more dramatic, Alex Todorov at Princeton has shown us that judgments of political candidates' faces in just one second predict 70 percent of U.S.… — Amy Cuddy
How can you put out a meaningful drama when every fifteen minutes proceedings are interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits with toilet paper? No dramatic art… — Rod Serling
Stephen Schlesingerâ€™s Act of Creation tells a dazzling story of the dramatic events that have shaped the world in which we live. Never has a… — James Chace

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