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Quotes About Drama

And at last, the courtroom rail birds were going to get a chance to hear something titillating. About John Orr getting his mongoose milked by an honest-to-God cop.
~ Joseph Wambaugh
She was the split-second experience that changes everything.; the car smash; the letter we shouldn't have opened; the lump in the breast or groin; the blinding flash. On my well-ordered stage-set the lights were up, and maybe at last I was waiting in the wings.
~ Josephine Hart
I'd better go before Kitty tries to act again.
~ Joss Whedon
Boxing has become America's tragic theater.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
The aim of theater—Aristotle said it first, and Aristotle said it best—is to arouse profound emotion in the spectator and through this arousal to effect a catharsis of the soul. If there's
~ Joyce Carol Oates
Midway through the class Erma handed back the students' self-portraits and asked for volunteers to read their work aloud, which induced a flurry of excitement and drama.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
unyielding—Oh Norma Jeane leads a crazy life, you see—she has a former husband very jealous of her—he is her "ex" but he is
~ Joyce Carol Oates
The tone we want to avoid is melodrama.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
God help me if I ever injure my back, Clayton quipped. God help you if you ever turn it, Whitney snapped, for there'll surely be some heartbroken papa or cuckolded husband ready with a knife--if I don't murder you first.
~ Judith McNaught
Hayat her kesin kendine düÅŸen rolü oynad??? bir tiyatro sahnesidir,.
~ Judith McNaught
Whitney, My Love is the story of Clayton Westmoreland, the Ninth Duke of Claymore. Until You features Stephen Westmoreland's
~ Judith McNaught
You are mad!" she snapped, her chest heaving. "And you are a devil!" "And you, my dear," Royce imperturbably replied, "are a bitch." With that, he turned to the horrified friar and unhesitatingly announced, "The lady and I wish to be wed.
~ Judith McNaught
You are the man Alexandra described in her note as an 'unspeakable cad, vile libertine,' and 'despoiler of innocents'?" "I'm all that and more," Ian replied grimly.
~ Judith McNaught
Mourning suits us Spanish women. Tragedy turns us into Antigone - maybe we are bred for the part.
~ Judith Ortiz Cofer
Drama demands the reversal of expectation, but in such a way that the first surprise is followed by an immediate recognition of inevitability.
~ Wallace Stegner
Drama demands the reversal of expectation, but in such a way that the first surprise is followed by an immediate recognition of inevitability. And inevitability takes careful pin-setting.
~ Wallace Stegner
Mailbox scenes are the dramatic moments of our totally undramatic life.
~ Wallace Stegner
Drama demands the reversal of expectation, but in such a way that the first surprise is followed by an immediate recognition of inevitability. And inevitability takes careful pin-setting. Since
~ Wallace Stegner
The daily life of the world is not dramatic—it is monotonous ; the novelist makes it dramatic by his silences, his suppressions, and his exaggerations.
~ Walter Besant
I look for something that is highly unusual, involving ordinary people caught in extraordinary situations.
~ Walter Lord
Lesly: I don't think you're insane. Jackie-O: You don't? Lesly: No. Jackie-O: You don't think I'm an eensie weensie bit insane? Lesly: I don't think you're insane. I think you're just spoiled. Jackie-O: Oh please, if everyone around here is going to start telling the truth, I'm going to bed.
~ Wendy Macleod
Perhaps you're being oversensitive and a bit overdramatic.
~ Wendy Mass
Every political action consequently threatens to become an automatic farce in a spectropolitical theater.
~ Werner Hamacher
Mit einem Schrei, der aus dem Thierreich zu stammen schien, stürzten sich Zuckriegel und Steinbüchse auf den Kelten und griffen zu. Einen Schrei stieß aber auch das Mädchen vom Rudolfsthurm aus: »Hilfe! Räuber! Diebe! Heilige Jungfrau! Maria und Joseph! Maxerl! Herr Inspector! Franzel! Hilfe um Gott und Jesu, s' gehet mit's G'ripp durch!«
~ Wilhelm Raabe