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Quotes About Drama

Biblical narratives provide the basic set of stories containing the important Christian beliefs, and children receive a great gift when we tell them Bible stories with clarity and drama. They also need to hear the stories of their particular faith tradition.
~ Catherine Stonehouse
Betsy waved her hands in the air as if to disperse an unpleasant perfume. "He's such a lot of bother. You're better off—theatrical folk are nothing but a bundle of monologues and anxiety headaches.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Because the opposite of fascism isn't anarchy, it's theater.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
You're better off—theatrical folk are nothing but a bundle of monologues and anxiety headaches.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Here's what you have to understand about intergalactic civil wars: they're functionally identical to the knockdown, door-slamming, plate-smashing, wall-penetrating, shriek-sobbing drama of any high-strung couple you've ever met.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Everybody who meddles with Shakespeare biography readily accepts that the Bard was unfaithful to his wife and excuses him for it, but infidelity on the part of his wife is sufficient to justify estrangement.
~ Germaine Greer
To his considerable discredit, Diego did not break off the affair with Cristina once Frida discovered them. He went on to paint a rather glamorous portrait of the younger sister with her two children in the National Palace mural, partially obscuring a dowdy image of Frida.
~ Gerry Souter
The theater of the End is triangular, and in the eyes of apocalyptic believers on all three sides, the great drama has begun. The sound system is hope and fear; each time an actor speaks, his words reverberate wildly. Three scripts are being performed.
~ Gershom Gorenberg
Two of three crucial prophecies that herald the End have come true, Lindsey says: The Jewish nation has been reborn in Palestine, and has repossessed old Jerusalem. So, "There remains but one more event to completely set the stage for Israel's part in the last great act of her historical drama. That is to rebuild the ancient Temple …
~ Gershom Gorenberg
Braveggia, urla! T'affretta a palesarmi il fondo dell'alma ria!'' ''Shout, braggart! What a rush you're in to show me the last dregs of your vile soul!
~ Giacomo Puccini
It's certain that the death of an actor can be on a television screen playing the same thing every week.
~ Giancarlo Esposito
But today, after the hit and run, followed by a visit from Prince Charmless and his evil stepmother, I'd already lived through more drama than a soap opera actress in her tenth season.
~ Gina Ardito
How wonderful opera would be if there were no singers.
~ Gioacchino Rosini
If you ask her, I'll kill you," says Callie pleasantly. And so it is that when Naomi and Mona are introduced—really, reintroduced—Mona prepares to ask her immediately.
~ Gish Jen
a cabeça de um poderoso a rebolar no chão sempre foi um dos espectáculos mais acarinhados pelas massas.
~ Giuliano da Empoli
Life, the dramatist of speed. Life, that couldn't stop with its foreshadows and ironies and symbols and clues, its wretched jokes and false endings and twists. Life with its hopeless addiction to plot.
~ Glen Duncan
Only conflict is news, and
~ Gloria Steinem
TV — a clever contraction derived from the words Terrible Vaudeville.
~ Goodman Ace
"Drama" can not grow unless you feed it with your energy and presence. Turn around. Walk away. Let it go...
~ Gordana Biernat
[T]he drama that is associated usually with the young as they fully begin to enter life—with adolescents, with young men... can also startle and lay siege to the aged.... Maybe the most potent discoveries are reserved for last.
~ Philip Roth, Exit Ghost, 2007
Do you see that kitten chasing so prettily her own tail? If you could look with her eyes, you might see her surrounded with hundreds of figures performing complex dramas, with tragic and comic issues, long conversations, many characters, many ups and downs of fate...
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
What is drama, after all, but life with the dull bits cut out.
~ Alfred Hitchcock
Spring blossoms are fairy tales, autumn leaves are tragic dramas.
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
At first, this earth, a stage so gloomed with woe You all but sicken at the shifting scenes And yet be patient. Our playwright may show In some filth act what this wild drama means.
~ Jack London