Melodrama Quotes

54 quotes by 50 authors

If a man went simply by what he saw, he might be tempted to affirm that the essence of democracy is melodrama. — Irving Babbitt
Golf is 20 percent mechanics and technique. The other 80 pecent is philosophy, humor, tragedy, romance, melodrama, companionship, camaraderie, cussedness and conversation. — Grantland Rice
On the golf course, a man may be the dogged victim of inexorable fate, be struck down by an appalling stroke of tragedy, become the… — Bobby Jones
Being in the moment means not being distracted by the melodrama and hysteria around you. Present-moment awareness allows solutions to emerge. — Deepak Chopra
I like soap opera acting. If it's done really well, there's nothing better. It's old school. It's like what those melodramas in the '30s and… — Parker Posey
I thought that jealousy was an idea. It isn't. It's a pain. But I didn't feel as they do in a Broadway melodrama. I didn't… — Floyd Dell
Even the favorite reviews, the audience response is the movie is too slow, deliberately slow. But for the Chinese audience, the biggest complaint is it… — Ang Lee
In drama, the characters should determine the story. In melodrama, the story determines the characters. — Sidney Lumet
All good, clean stories are melodrama; it's just the set of devices that determines how you show or hide it. — Baz Luhrmann
So slowly in my mind formed the idea of melodrama, a form I found to perfection in American pictures. They were naive, they were that… — Douglas Sirk
Mr. Scott Fitzgerald deserves a good shaking. Here is an unmistakable talent unashamed of making itself a motley to the view. The Great Gatsby is… — Leslie Poles Hartley
Fighting your ego is a melodrama of the ego. — Deepak Chopra
William Shakespeare was the most remarkable storyteller that the world has ever known. Homer told of adventure and men at war, Sophocles and Tolstoy told… — Marchette Chute
Post-â€‹wounded women know that postures of pain play into limited and outmoded conceptions of womanhood. Their hurt has a new native language spoken in several… — Leslie Jamison
To be intuitive, we must cultivate our sense of humor and look for reasons to laugh everywhere. We become so self-absorbed and serious when it… — Sonia Choquette
Commercialism is laying its great greasy paw upon everything including the irresponsible quest of thrills; so that, whatever democracy may be theoretically, one is sometimes… — Irving Babbitt
The world sometimes feels like an insane asylum. You can decide whether you want to be an inmate or pick up your visitor's badge. You… — Deepak Chopra
I'm obsessive about the kind of melodrama of getting through the days and trying to make them good and funny and a happy experience. But… — Tom Baker
Parsi theater was known for melodrama. — Irrfan Khan
Arguments are often like melodramas - they have a predictable beginning, middle, and end. — Gay Hendricks

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