Best 231 quotes in «dramatic quotes» category

Sustaining innovations are the key to consistent performance, whereas disruptive innovations are the key to dramatic changes in power.

That's just how I see things. I think things that are the most dramatic or tragic can also look the most ridiculous and funny. That's part of being human.

The dominant metaphor of conceptual relativism, that of differing points of view, seems to betray an underlying paradox. Differentpoints of view make sense, but only if there is a common co-ordinate system on which to plot them; yet the existence of a common system belies the claim of dramatic incomparability.

The cost reductions for renewable energy continue downward in a very dramatic way. We're in the early stages of a sustainability revolution in the globe that has the scale of the industrial revolution but the speed of the digital revolution. And you see it with renewable energy and you see it with LED lighting, which takes a fraction of the energy for the existing bulbs. All new lights are going to be LED. Electric vehicles. There are a lot of changes underway right now. I'm excited by the prospect, and I look forward to working in the months and years to come to accelerate this transition.

The area of climate change has a dramatic impact on national security.

The first big dramatic push in the Haitian Revolution was to overthrow the slave regime and we have to remember this was really the first place where there was a large scale emancipation experiment.

The essence of dramatic tragedy is not unhappiness. It resides in the solemnity of the remorseless working of things.

The films dramatic requirements should always take precedence over the mere aesthetics of editing.

The greatest rules of dramatic writing are conflict, conflict, conflict.

The inside of the Pentagon is an incredible place and a dramatic set. We do [travel] outside, but the inside workings of the civilian oversight of the military inside the Pentagon is really about as exciting as anything you ever want to deal with. It is really amazing.

The oceans are pretty unexplored places and the final frontier on our planet; also because they're the source of life. There are dramatic things happening to them at the moment, and they're worth exploring.

The plain state of being human is dramatic enough for anyone; you don't need to be a heroin addict or a performance poet to experience extremity. You just have to love someone.

The good thing about 'Weeds' now is, I get to play some dramatic parts in that as well.

There is no dramatic difference in happiness on the part of people who are wealthy.

There are many different ways of being funny. I'm not sure that there's so many different ways of being dramatic.

The separation of a childless couple is dramatic, but the separation of a couple with children is always tragic.

There are so many great comedies, right now. I like how comedies are really mixing. They're not just one thing. It can be very moving and dramatic, and yet hilarious.

The respect you give others is a dramatic reflection of the respect you give yourself.

They have equal weight and you do the same work you'd do if you were playing a dramatic role.

The world is poised on the cusp of an economic and cultural shift as dramatic as that of the Industrial Revolution.

Throughout my life, there's just periods when I write and periods when I don't. I don't feel like anything's really blocked. "Writer's block" sounds so dramatic and worrisome, and I don't worry about it. I know deep down that I'm a writer, and it's just a matter of time until it comes back, and when it does, it'll be good like it's always been.

The world has to save Syria. I mean, this has dramatic implications for the entire region, globally.

To be 26 years old and lose your left heart ventricle was probably the most dramatic thing that's ever happened to me in my life...

Things happen, but things happen and you follow... your heart is too dramatic, but you follow.

Until Genevieve I had tended towards the more dramatic type of role

To me, always just - that scene is, like, so convenient. They never run out of bullets in action movies, unless it's at the most dramatic time possible.

Villains with a conscience have this sad realization of who they are, and the monster they've become — there's a sense of regret. So at the end of these movies there's a dramatic resonance that really stays with the audience.

We live in this world where loosing our phones are more dramatic than loosing our virginity.

To be a dramatic writer takes hard work, talent, and discipline. And that's why I just make up crap.

Travel at faster than the speed of light certainly can have dramatic implications that are difficult to understand, such as time travel.

We attend to his later performances as a dramatic actor with respect, but watching the nondancing, nonsinging Astaire is like watching a grounded skylark.

We can be dramatic, even theatrical; we can be persuasive; but the message we are telling must be true.

We can hardly expect the nation-state to make itself superfluous, at least not overnight. Rather what we must aim for is really nothing more than caretakers of a bankrupt international machine which will have to be transformed slowly into a new one. The transition will not be dramatic, but a gradual one. People will still cling to national symbols.

We have actually experienced in recent months a dramatic demonstration of an unprecedented intelligence failure, perhaps the most significant intelligence failure in the history of the United States.

We live in a material world, not a dramatic one.

West Yorkshire is quite dramatic and beautiful, the crags and things.

When I was in my 20s, I wanted to go after dramatic roles, and I didn't have a tremendous amount of success with that.

When I was young, I wanted to be a dramatic writer, a writer of tragedy. Nothing would've pleased me more than if I could have written like Eugene O'Neil or Tennessee Williams.

What you do, is you gradually become more and more experienced, and more and more realistic about dramatic tolerance, i.e. about how long the play should be.

When you are playing a part like that where you have traveled - you begin to think, God what a great life. Independent, living alone and how dramatic.

When you guest-star, you're usually at the center of the dramatic arc, so that's fun.

Within the framework of something very dramatic, funny things happen. Organically, from them.

When I started auditioning, I'd take any audition I could get. The more dramatic ones didn't go as well as the comedic.

You have a dramatic portion of your television program and you treat it dramatically, and then you have a comedic portion of your program, and you treat it differently. Why do you change who are between the two pieces? You're the same person. Just go.

You have to take some dramatic license just to make it entertaining sometimes

Actually for a while Jessica had contemplated making a grand entrance wearing only the dress, thinking wickedly about how the sight of her cold, shivering body would prompt Nicholas to rush up and put his arms around her to warm her up. But evenings at this time of year were usually chilly, and she saw no reason to risk pneumonia just for a sympathy hug. She'd have to settle for throwing her coat off dramatically as she was being ushered into the Morrow mansion.

You really come to life on stage but outside - this is a bit of a sad clown cliché - there is that element of loneliness you get from travelling and being on the road. Stand-ups can bring a lot of that to a dramatic role and make it work for them.

A glacial chill rushes through Gage. He whips around just in time to see arms clutch Summer around the middle and drag her into the dark. Panic seizes him, and he takes off after her, regardless of the chaos brewing behind him. Her cry of surprise echoes all around them, drilling into his bones.

After a particularly disheartening day in my freshman year of high school, in which my arrogance had once again stirred up the insecurity of my classmates and driven them to acts of ill-concealed hostility,

An operating system is the great facilitator; it is the great protector; it is the great illusionist.