Best 231 quotes in «dramatic quotes» category

Or did I know by intuition that wonderful and terrible things were really imminent at last, trembling into being just behind the curtain of the future?

Si inventer la substance, c'est indirectement inventer l'accident, plus l'invention est puissant, performante, et plus l'accident est dramatique.

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Quando se deu conta disso, a tristeza avançou silenciosamente, como água. Era uma tristeza transparente, sem forma. A tristeza era dele mesmo, mas, ao mesmo tempo, se encontrava em algum lugar distante, longe do seu alcance. O peito doeu como se parte dele tivesse sido arrancada, e se sentiu sufocado.

She wasn't the same girl she'd been the year before, who though failing out of Foxfire would be the end of the world. Now she'd been kidnapped, presumed dead, banished from the Lost Cities, and helped stop a plague from killing off the entire gnomish species. She'd even snuck into the ogres' capital and helped destroy half the city--which happened to be why the Council was struggling to negotiated a new elvin-ogre treaty.

Tell her I'm sorry I sold the diamond, eh?" Sammy said. "I broke my promise. When she disappeared in Alaska... ah, so long ago, I finally used that diamond, moved to Texas as I always dreamed. I started my machine shop. Started my family! It was a good life, but Haze; was right. The diamond came with a curse. I never saw her again." "Oh, Sammy," Hazel said. "No, a curse didn't keep me away. I wanted to come back. I died!" The old man didn't seem to hear. He smiled down at the baby, and kissed him on the head. "I give you my blessing, Leo. First male great-grandchild! I have a feeling you are special, like Hazel was. You are more than a regular baby, eh? You will carry on for me. You will see her someday. Tell her hello for me.

That art gives charm to terrible things is perhaps its glory, perhaps its curse. Art is a doom.

That was Flint's treasure that we had come so far to seek, and that had cost already the lives of seventeen men from the Hispaniola. How many it had cost in the ammassing, what blood and sorrow, what good ships scuttled on the deep, what brave men walking the plank blindfold, what shot of cannon, what shame and lies and cruelty, perhaps no man alive could tell.

The destruction of something beautiful can appear so entertaining.

. Then I smile and in haste . . . I can't help it! I worship your silhouette. How I gaze and can't help but stare. I place my hands in your red hair. It is wonderful knowing you have found my undying love. But now I'll end this and say goodnight and await the day to be with you through the night and wake with you in my arms underneath the morning light.

... The use of your gift for good is your responsibility. You must decide for yourself.

They were feeling generously dramatic due to lack of food.

They were both people who carried every scrap of everything around, but maybe they could help each other set things down, piece by piece.

This is Electra. Brilliant no more.

This was a time in Heaven's history that was very majestic, before the darkness, before Hell itself was created.

Una lezione ha un denominatore comune che ci lega l'uno all'altro come in una catena. In fondo alla catena è appeso un orologio che segna lo scorrere del tempo. Udiamo il tic tac attutito che spezza il silenzio e spesso lo vediamo, ma non lo ascoltiamo. Ogni secondo lascia un segno nella vita di ciascuno; arriva e se ne va, svanendo senza squilli di tromba, disperdendosi nell'aria come come il fumo che si leva da un dolce di Natale appena sfornato. Il tempo ci riscalda e, quando è finito, ci lascia al freddo. E' più prezioso dell'oro, dei diamanti, più prezioso del petrolio o di qualsiasi tesoro. Il tempo non ci basta mai; il tempo crea conflitti nei nostri cuori e quindi dobbiamo usarlo saggiamente. Non possiamo impacchettarlo, mettergli un fiocco e lasciarlo sotto l'albero per la mattina di Natale. Non possiamo regalare il tempo, ma possiamo condividerlo

Unlike in the movies, the weather seemed indifferent to his personal predicament and refused dramatic contribution. It was a rather pleasant day, in fact.

Vanished children, I can't think where I lost them...

We either have total victory or we burn up in the sky.' -Fuuko Kurasaki/Sky Raker

What will i do without it ? ill die that's what. ill just....die!" "go on then. i dare you" I said. Jess went on raving, completely ignoring my invitation.

You Never Know A True Friend Until You get Into A Serious Misunderstanding With Him Or Her

Your friend Lila is calling from her car phone,' Ned said, half amused and half annoyed. 'Apparently something earth-shattering has come up, and unless she can talk to you this very second, she claims she will die.

A dramatic writer should never tell anything he can show.

A dramatic decrease in oil availability is not at all far-fetched.

A dramatic experience concerned with the mundane may inform but it cannot release; and one concerned essentially with the aesthetic politics of its creators may divert or anger, but it cannot enlighten.

A frivolous society can acquire dramatic significance only through what its frivolity destroys.

A good movie with bad music can kill a great dramatic scene.

A good many dramatic situations begin with screaming.

A mood disorder is dangerous. You've got to get those dramatic waves of highs and lows stabilized. It's dangerous if you don't.

As a slave [to fashion], I can be very dramatic and very demanding of myself and of the people I work with.

The phony surrender's over; the ceasefire has ended. The final fight for the Republic has begun.

As for doing more dramatic work over comedy, I do whatever turns me on at the moment.

As much as I loved [Al] Pacino and [Robert] De Niro and wanted to be a dramatic actor, I also grew up on sitcoms.

At dramatic rehearsals, the only author that's better than an absent one is a dead one.

A theological time bomb, set to go off with dramatic consequences.

As someone who played music and never got famous, and remembers little fragments of that, I don't remember life as a dramatic flamboyant thing.

Batteries are the most dramatic object. Other things stop working or they break, But Batteries... They Die.

Because poets feel what we're afraid to feel, venture where we're reluctant to go, we learn from their journeys without taking the same dramatic risks.

But Germany will always suffer, I fear, from the intensely dramatic character of the crimes of the Third Reich.

Confessional poetry is, to my mind, more slippery than poems that are sloppily autobiographical; I find the confessional mode much more akin to dramatic monologue.

Being glamorous is about strength and confidence. It's black and white - dramatic. You have to be strong.

Dad was an amazing storyteller and illustrator, which he did in his spare time - very inspiring and dramatic.

Death, it seems," Garp wrote, "does not like to wait until we are prepared for it. Death is indulgent and enjoys, when it can, a flair for the dramatic.

Dramatic exits are the last refuge of the infantile personality

Dramatic things always have a bitterness for some one.

Each language has its own temperament; some languages make a poem more dramatic or sad, and others make it more playful.

Cricket is a game full or forlorn hopes and sudden dramatic changes of fortune and its rules are so ill-defined that their interpretation is partly an ethical business.

Even when you're making a movie about life, death is a presence, and I guess it's part of my dramatic viewpoint. I'm not sure why exactly.

Exposing something that's painful or raw or not so pleasant. That seems to be the dramatic motor of documentaries, exposure.

For me, the thing that I love about the show is the psychological thriller aspect of it. It's frightening and it's scary, and there are all these things that happen. You have these really dramatic scenes, and then you get in a scene with him and I can't tell you how many times I would start cracking up.