Best 231 quotes in «dramatic quotes» category

People are drawn to watching things that are dramatic. And the tighter a relationship is, the more dramatic it can be. That's something family lends itself to. Everybody has family, somewhere, somehow. Those relationships are always very complex. This takes it to almost Greek-tragedy-level heights. That's fun to watch, although it's very uncomfortable. It explores the darkest sense of family.

Plato has dramatic strength ... but is quite unaware of the strength of the argument against his position ... and allows himself to be grossly unfair in arguing against it.

Post-operatively the transplanted kidney functioned immediately with a dramatic improvement in the patient's renal and cardiopulmonary status.

Sex, love and death are universal and timeless dramatic themes.

Sex work is a completely unregulated industry and to make the affront even worse, the product and the labourers are the same thing! The product is the sexuality of the actual labourers: flesh. I think in that sense, the exploitative nature of unencumbered capitalism is made even more dramatic.

Shakespeare was the Homer, or father of our dramatic poets;Jonson was theVirgil, the pattern of elaborate writing; I admire him, but I love Shakespeare.

She thought she was only seeing him because she wanted to see him... It's a by-product of very dramatic kissing.

She wasn't as destructive as Bee. She had never been as dramatic. Rather, she'd slipped carefully, stealthily away from her ghosts.

Some movies I see today have the most dramatic plot points but the actors are not playing them dramatically.

Sophisticated but at the same time dramatic and seductive, Tangerine Tango is an orange with a lot of depth to it.

Southern poets are still writing narrative poems, poems in forms, dramatic poems.

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

Sometimes it's dramatic, but mental health, as a whole, has to become mainstream.

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

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

Photojournalism is photography with more story telling. A single image can be amazing and dramatic. I started out shooting individual images, but I found I wanted to have more of a voice: to actually say something. I wanted to do something more personal over a long period of time, with more authorship.

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

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

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 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 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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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...

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

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

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 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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.