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Quotes About Dramatic

We had a teacher in school who would organize dramatic shows. And she decided to put on a show about - I don't know whether you remember - 'Ferdinand the Bull', the comic script. However, she decided, you're going to sing Ferdinand, me, as a role.
~ Jimmy Scott
I've played outrageous characters my whole career.
~ Tracy Morgan
I like the freedom of novels. With the memoirs, I always had to keep to the facts. I like that with novels, if I want to go off and write something quite dramatic or outrageous or something completely different, I can do it if I want to.
~ Carol Drinkwater
If you're going to be ridiculous, be over-the-top ridiculous.
~ Rick Nielsen
If R. Akiva was perhaps overly generous in judging his generation, it can perhaps be ascribed to the belief, based on his own experience, that everyone is capable of a dramatic life change.
~ Meir Soloveichik
To be able to change from being essentially a bad guy into a really hot babyface overnight is very hard to do.
~ Jake Hager
just another of the thousands of jobs rural policemen get solving little social problems among people turned eccentric by an overdose of dramatic skyscapes, endless silence and loneliness.
~ Tony Hillerman
Grandmother walked up over the bare granite and thought about birds in general. It seemed to her no other creature had the same dramatic capacity to underline and perfect events -- the shifts in the seasons and the weather, the changes that run through people themselves. p.33
~ Tove Jansson
All right,' Owen said. 'Let's have a closer look, then.' He picked up a large scalpel from the instrument trolley at his side and brandished it dramatically over the corpse like a sacrificial dagger. 'God, I bet you were unbearable at med school,' said Gwen.
~ Unknown
I think they should rename the place Unnecessary Violent Overreaction." In
~ Tui T. Sutherland
Frankly, I think they should rename the place Unnecessary Violent Overreaction.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
Would anyone else like to make a dramatic confession?" Qibli asked. "Who else is hiding magic powers? Winter, anything we should know? A secret IceWing ability to kill dragons with a sneer?
~ Tui T. Sutherland
The front door flew open. A vampire in a long, slinky red dress stood framed in the doorway, flashing her fangs at them. "HAPPY HALLO—oh, it's you," she said.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
The sunset's fire was tangled in leaden clouds, and the pillars of rain supporting the toppling thunderheads were very close;
~ Paul Theroux
Si inventer la substance, c'est indirectement inventer l'accident, plus l'invention est puissant, performante, et plus l'accident est dramatique.
~ Paul Virilio
I've never done theater professionally. But I went to the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, so I did some theater there.
~ Luke Grimes
As the crowd stomps the floor for a curtain call, we sneak through the back door and make off like superheroes.
~ Dave Eggers
Raphael watched, and gradually he began to understand them. At first it was not even a theory, but rather a kind of intuition. He found that he could look at any one of them and almost smell the impending crisis. That was the key word—crisis. At first it seemed too dramatic a term to apply to situations resulting from their bumbling mismanagement of their lives or deliberate wrongheaded stupidity, but they themselves reacted as if these situations were in fact crises.
~ David Eddings
In reality, genuine epiphanies are extremely rare. In contemporary adult life maturation & acquiescence to reality are gradual processes. Modern usage usually deploys epiphany as a metaphor. It is usually only in dramatic representations, religious iconography, and the 'magical thinking' of children that insight is compressed to a sudden blinding flash.
~ David Foster Wallace
what ho, apothecary!
~ William Shakespeare
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.
~ Yann Martel
People need dramatic examples to shake them out of apathy, and I can't do that as Bruce Wayne. As a man, I'm flesh and blood. I can be ignored. I can be destroyed. But as a symbol, as a symbol I can be incorruptible, I can be everlasting.
~ Christopher Nolan
Personally, I don't mind a good cry. In fact, if I cry while chopping onions, I'll run to the bathroom mirror and recite one of my favorite lines from Poltergeist: "Don't you touch my babies!!!" It's the part where the kids are being sucked into the bedroom closet for the second time and JoBeth Williams is at HER WIT'S END! It's very dramatic.
~ Clinton Kelly
even today, when I have a cold, it is the worst cold in the history of the house.
~ Clive James