Dramatic Quotes

My own theory is that we are in the middle of a dramatic and broad technological and economic shift in which software companies are poised to take over large swathes of the economy

Revolution is the most dramatic appearance of a conscious people.

Never underestimate the power of dramatic lips.

Now is the dramatic moment of fate, Watson, when you hear a step upon the stair which is walking into your life, and you know not whether for good or ill.

I definitely would like to do some more dramatic roles.

Batteries are the most dramatic object. Other things stop working or they break, But Batteries... They Die.

In a very complex way, things have improved in the dramatic field. Before you had the good and the bad and you couldn't mingle them. Now it's more ambiguous.

A frivolous society can acquire dramatic significance only through what its frivolity destroys.

The plain state of being human is dramatic enough for anyone; you don't need to be a heroin addict or a performance poet to experience extremity. You just have to love someone.

At dramatic rehearsals, the only author that's better than an absent one is a dead one.

To be 26 years old and lose your left heart ventricle was probably the most dramatic thing that's ever happened to me in my life...

It's those little daily incidents of life that are dramatic, and if you put a frame around it , suddenly they become much bigger and much more important than you ever imagined.

Given a thimbleful of [dramatic] facts we rush to make generalizations as large as a tub.

History has recorded nothing so dramatic in design, nor so skillfully manipulated, as this attempt to create the National Reserve Association, or the Federal Reserve.

Being glamorous is about strength and confidence. It's black and white - dramatic. You have to be strong.

I can be dramatic. I can be funny. I can be sexy. I can be sad. I can be glad.

Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.

Lyda was an exuberant, even a dramatic gardener.... She was always holding up a lettuce or a bunch of radishes with an air of resolute courage, as though she had shot them herself.

The greatest rules of dramatic writing are conflict, conflict, conflict.

Travel at faster than the speed of light certainly can have dramatic implications that are difficult to understand, such as time travel.

Sustaining innovations are the key to consistent performance, whereas disruptive innovations are the key to dramatic changes in power.

Why should we postpone our joy to another world? Let us get all we can of the good between the cradle and the grave, all that we can of the truly dramatic. If, when death comes, that is the end, we have at least made the best of this life.

We can be dramatic, even theatrical; we can be persuasive; but the message we are telling must be true.

Sometimes it's dramatic, but mental health, as a whole, has to become mainstream.

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 my hand on every dramatic occasion.

I was trained as a dramatic actor. Im really excited to do some more dramatic stuff.

Improvisation in general is good, and improvising material into themes, turning the material into something codified and repeatable, taught me scenic structure and dramatic gambits that work and things that are appealing both as a performer and an audience member, like you know, what does "want" really mean in a scene, and how do you achieve your want, and how is that expressed, and how do you achieve closure? Those are all things that I learned performing at the cabaret after just doing the same scenes over and over and over again over the years, with my own ability to change.

I think that's what distinguishes Schmidt, really. In the movies now, so much of what is appealing to an audience is the dramatic or has to do with science fiction, and Schmidt is simply human. There's no melodrama; there's no device, It's just about a human being.

It's obvious throughout secular and church history that significant legislation follows only after dramatic action.

I was always looking for the most dramatic emphasis. One example would be the letter writing, or the reading of the letters. If you remember from the book, they find the letters and then in the most undramatic way they take them downstairs, they get approval, they sit at a table during the day with their own author, across from each other.

A writer's job is to cultivate what can go wrong. You're always looking for that dramatic arc of where things can fail.

A good many dramatic situations begin with screaming.

Insincerity in a man's own heart must make all his enjoyments, all that concerns him, unreal; so that his whole life must seem like a merely dramatic representation.

The essence of dramatic tragedy is not unhappiness. It resides in the solemnity of the remorseless working of things.

When I was in my 20s, I wanted to go after dramatic roles, and I didn't have a tremendous amount of success with that.

The world is poised on the cusp of an economic and cultural shift as dramatic as that of the Industrial Revolution.

Sex, love and death are universal and timeless dramatic themes.

Often as we teach and testify about the law of tithing, we emphasize the immediate, dramatic and readily recognizable temporal blessings that we receive. And surely such blessings do occur. Yet some of the diverse blessings we obtain as we are obedient to this commandment are significant but subtle.

Nature can put on a thrilling show. The stage is vast, the lighting is dramatic, the extras are innumerable, and the budget for special effects is absolutely unlimited.

The most anxious time was during launch, just because that is so dramatic.

I am in the Master of Professional Writing program teaching Humor Writing, Literary and Dramatic.

The plain state of being human is dramatic enough for anyone

We live in this world where loosing our phones are more dramatic than loosing our virginity.

In real life, events seem much less dramatic.

For me, it was more a dramatic shift to go from the stage to the screen.

Italians have no sense of the dramatic.

Like behind the car or in the pub, to do a scene, a proper nice dramatic scene, it's always a treat. And they're usually shot as one, so you've got a big chunk of dialogue to learn, and you feel like you're working.

There is a lot of comedy in magic, and magic going wrong, and also it is a dramatic subject.

In the space of a decade, China and India have emerged as dramatic, dynamic competitors.

I'm developing some other things in other genres, including one dramatic piece. So, anything's possible.