Quotes About Climax

To be sure, every football play is in a sense a short narrative. First come the signals of the quarterback. That is the preliminary exposition. Then the plot thickens, action becomes intense and a climax is reached whereby the mood of tragedy or comedy is established.

The longest day of sunlight...comes at the beginning of Summer rather than in its midst. In consequence, all Summer long we are inclining towards Summer's end instead of building to a climax and then tapering off.

Apparently the climax had come when he had suggested to Tamiris that in the historic sweep of dance history she was ideally equipped to dance the great Isadora Duncan. He expected flattered appreciation but Tamiris regarded him coldly, demanding, "And who will dance Tamiris?

A poetry reading builds up to a climax, and if it's a success it leaves the audience somewhat high." —Lawrence Ferlinghetti

It's a principle of mine to come into the story as late as possible, and to tell it as fast as you can.

The denouement is the moment when all of the knots of a story are untied, and all the threads are unraveled, and everything is laid out clearly for the world to see. But the denouement should not be confused with the end of the story...It is often the second-to-last event, or the penultimate peril.

Know your death stakes! This is going to be crucial in order for you to write your novel from the middle.

That's it then. This is how it ends. I haven't even read Proust.

Probably the most important element in intricacy is centering. Good small parks typically have a place somewhere within them commonly understood to be the center—at the very least a main crossroads and pausing point, a climax.

With fiction, you can do whatever you want to, but if you are making a film on someone, you have to stick to the truth. You cannot just say that I will change the climax because I do not like it.

We all hate those stories that end with 'And that's the story.'

Every single song I write has to feel like it has a beginning, middle, and end, like a movie or a short story.

With the finale episode of 'Gravity Falls' our job as storytellers is to finish all the things we've started.

There is only one act of violence in 'The Strangers' and it comes at the very, very end... the movie could have worked just as well if we didn't see it, in my opinion.

The Olympic gold was like going to a theater and seeing a movie that had the ending you expected. But you left the theater thinking, 'You know, that was a good movie.'

Our seasons aren't like most sports, where the climax comes at the end. With us, the Olympics are much more important than anything else.

Romantic art begins with its climax.

Oh, jeez, I'm going to come!" His voice was rough. "Goddamn straight you are!

But if we honestly name the passionate desires of our heart, and if we risk seeing those desires come to be, the plot of our life story will begin to move with greater intentionality. Yet the only way we can keep walking on that path is to allow our self moments to rest and celebrate the temporary climax of a story in denouement.

the male climax was accompanied by a split second entirely devoid of thought. A brief mental vacuum. A moment of clarity during which God could be glimpsed. Meditation gurus achieved similar states of thoughtlessness without sex and often described Nirvana as a never-ending spiritual orgasm.

Just as well," he said. "We have one deus ex machina too many as it is.

It was as if they had climbed the last hill in creation.

It's my experience that endings are never easy, and I think I'm not alone among filmmakers or writers in this.

I needed to be alone for whatever would happen. I knew that something would as certainly as if this were a last chapter.