Curb Quote by Dennis Lehane Download Open image “In Greek tragedy, they fall from great heights. In noir, they fall from the curb.” — Dennis Lehane ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Curb Fall Greek Greek tragedy Height Noir Tragedy
Gangster movies are the inheritor of the Greek tragedy: it's the only genre where the audience will be disappointed if there's not a tragic… — Daniel Espinosa Copy Share Image
Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“...I like to see things through the lens of Greek tragedy, which teaches us, among other things, that real tragedy is never a straightforward… — Daniel Mendelsohn Copy Share Image
“Tragedy is born of myth, not morality. Prometheus and Icarus are tragic heroes. Yet none of the myths in which they appear has anything… — John Gray Copy Share Image
“A rain of shadows, a storm, a squall! Daylight retreats; night swallows all. If good is bright, if evil is gloom, high evil walls… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“It has all the terrible beauty of a Greek tragedy, a tragedy in which I took a great part, but by which I have… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
A great tragedy passes from crest to hollow of passion, rises and sinks again, as rhythmically as sea-waves. — Austin O'Malley Copy Share Image
Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of character, of… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
“Falling was such an elastic word. It was basically horrible. People got hurt and died, falling. There was force and pain and fear, if… — Abigail Johnson Copy Share Image
“The scene [Bruegel's 'Landscape with the Fall of Icarus'] is filled with a vast field, and a cow and a farmer plowing. In the… — Hwang Sŏk-yŏng Copy Share Image
Athens is the birthplace of modern tragedy. In the Greek tragic plays, the tableau of the characters would become a statue, like the statue… — Simon Van Booy Copy Share Image
He wondered if this was what clinical depression felt like, a total numbness, a weary lack of hope. — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
I held her, he wanted to say, and if I knew for certain that all it would take to hold her again would be… — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
“Everyone I know lies, breaks their word, and has perfectly legitimate excuses for why they do. Except you. Haven't you ever noticed that? Two… — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
“If a man was lucky, he was moving toward something his whole life.” — dennis lehane Copy Share Image
“After my daughter was born, I'd considered buying a shotgun to ward off potention suitors fourteen or so years up the road. Now, as… — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
“I once again felt an odd flush of admiration for my partner's faith in a religion I had long ago abandoned. She doesn't advertise… — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
“And she was-definitely-a woman who did not shrink from gauntlets, but stepped up to them, and said, Okay, bring it. Bring your worst. I… — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
“Jimmy looked back over at his wife, and Celeste could feel the tenderest of aches in the look. She could feel another teardrop piece… — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
“She told him that he had the most beautiful voice she'd ever heard, that it sounded like whiskey and wood smoke.” — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
My daughter squealed again and both Bubba and I winced. It’s not an attractive sound, that. It’s high-pitched and it enters your ear canals… — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
“The only people who ask questions like ‘Did he want to be something besides a bartender?’ are people who can become whatever they want.… — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
And after hearing what our Church can say, If still our reason runs another way, That private reason 'tis more just to curb, Than… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
What are the aspects of yourself that line up with the character? You magnify those, and the ones that don't match up you kind… — Jeff Bridges Copy Share Image
They can change every name in South Africa, but it won't change the fact that the government has failed to provide services or curb… — Connie Mulder Copy Share Image
Major international interventions are doomed unless the US is directly or indirectly involved. But if American politicians, officials and servicemen are to be put… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
I received rejection letters for ten years (one on a napkin, written in crayon.) I had all my rejection notices stored in a box.… — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
I did about 10-12 national commercials and then got one line parts in things like 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' and the show 'The Unit.' Got… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's not that I am not emotional, but I am extremely secure and curb it, as I am afraid to let go and be… — Ranbir Kapoor Copy Share Image
Other than my Instagram - very recently - I'm not out there. I'm not in the papers every week, I've managed to curb all… — Dizzee Rascal Copy Share Image
The implied threat of using nuclear weapons to curb guerrillas was as absurd as to talk of using a sledge hammer to ward off… — B. H. Liddell Hart Copy Share Image
...the great movement of apostasy being organized in every country for the establishment of a One-World Church which shall have neither dogmas, nor hierarchy,… — Pope Pius X Copy Share Image
It's a real misconception that water is a problem in Africa only. It's also an issue in Nepal, in Honduras, and in the United… — Kenna Copy Share Image
