Quotes About Stakes

I love comedy, but more than that, I love comedy that has a message and that has some stakes.

For most Democrats, politics is sports to them because they have no stakes because they don't pay tax.

In those days spirits were brave, the stakes were high, men were real men, women were real women and small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were real small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri.

No warrior runs away from his challenges, but, conversely, a warrior also chooses his battles. It is senseless to fight a battle in which there are no desired stakes.

In his mind, the business of existence was about minimizing consequences. The plague had raised the stakes, but he had been in training for this his whole life.

The First Plot Point of your story is when the story's primary tension—its antagonistic force—makes its initial full frontal appearance in a form that imparts meaning and consequence to the story's hero, and in context to stakes you have already established

The mission of Part 1 is to set up the plot by creating stakes, backstory, and character empathy, while perhaps foreshadowing the forthcoming conflict.

On 'Grey's,' if you have a bad day as a doctor, you lose a patient. But what's crazy about 'Station 19' is if you have a bad day as a firefighter, the patient dies, or you die, or your partner dies. It's a whole other level of stakes.

If stakes and garlic were the top two things that could kill a vampire, ninth grade gym was a close third.

Gamblers and lovers really play to lose.

You don't know what pressure is until you've played for five dollars a hole with only two in your pocket

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

Sentence one is character + vocation + current situation. Sentence two starts with "When" and is what I call the Doorway of No Return––the thing that pushes the Lead into the main plot. Sentence three begins with "Now" and the death (physical, professional, or psychological/spiritual) stakes.

Thrillers provide the reader with a safe escape into a dangerous world where the stakes are as high as can be imagined with unpredictable outcomes. It's a perfect genre in which to explore hard issues of good and evil, a mirror that allows the reader to see both the good and not so good in themselves.

What would you have if you didn't have a murder in a mystery? You'd have something for the lower-level readers. When you get up into the upper levels, there's nothing that will engage you or compel you or get your emotions churning like a murder. It's the ultimate stakes.

It doesn't work if the bad guys kill his mother's uncle's friend's neighbor's pet dog. You've got to make the stakes high.

The real reason why I don't play in many big cash games is because I can't stomach the thought of losing $100,000 or more in any given session. If I play three consecutive days at the Bellagio, I might win two days but lose big on the third. Really, who needs the agony of losing that much money? Not me.

Big stories need human stakes.

I think that's why I'm an actor: so I can tell those stories without having to really live through those stories with real consequences and real stakes, real responsibility.

With so much at stake, and so many fortunes to be made, benevolent intentions can easily be drowned out. She

I think that 'Hangover II' is as funny as 'The Hangover I ' honest to God, but I think that it's a little bit darker, and the stakes are a little bit higher.

Silas knew the stakes were incalculable, and yet what the Teacher was now commanding seemed impossible.

At the gambling table, there are no fathers and sons.

Here's our three-part recipe to create more moments of elevation: (1) Boost the sensory appeal; (2) Raise the stakes; (3) Break the script. Usually elevated moments have 2 or 3 of those traits.