Dramatic Quotes

The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.
John F. Kennedy

Life, Courage, Moment

The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much. In public affairs, in the rebuilding of civilization, something less dramatic and emotional is needed, namely tolerance.
E. M. Forster

Love, Emotional, Cannot

Breaking up is just hard, even if you're the one breaking up. It's not fun. It can be dramatic and complicated. And then you get a little distance and you think, why did it have to be so complicated and dramatic?
Norah Jones

Life can be dramatic and funny all in the same day.
Jennifer Aniston

Life, Funny, Same

I love making people laugh and feel good, and that's awesome and special for me to be able to do that, but there really is nothing like kicking ass whether it's on a major scale, or whether it's in more of a dramatic fashion. Being physical and taking care of business the old-fashioned way is something that I love doing.
Dwayne Johnson

Love, Good, Business

Oh gosh, I noticed dramatic changes in my body after I started doing yoga, but I also think you have to shake things up.
Jennifer Aniston

After, Body, Started

In real life, events seem much less dramatic.
Jessica Savitch

Life, Real, Less

A dramatic thing, the first time you stand up to your dad.
Lenny Kravitz

Time, Dad, Stand

As soon as you are trying to be funny or dramatic, that's when things start feeling fake and boring.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Funny, Fake, Feeling

I like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass.
David Byrne

Business, Emotional, Body

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

Beautiful, Quite, West

I do seem to like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass.
David Byrne

Business, Emotional, Body

My mother loves me and everything goes well. I have no conflict with her, so that's not dramatic.
Ang Lee

Mother, Everything, Her

I think that's what distinguishes Schmidt, really. In the movies now, so much of what is appealing to an audience is the dramatic or has to do with science fiction, and Schmidt is simply human. There's no melodrama; there's no device, It's just about a human being.
Jack Nicholson

Science, Movies, Human

I don't really find girls to be any more dramatic or delicate than boys; I've known plenty of little boys who've had miserable breakdowns over things... in fact, I was one of them!
Harry Connick, Jr.

Find, Fact, Miserable

A good many dramatic situations begin with screaming.
Jane Fonda

Good, Begin, Situations

The problem for me, still today, is that I write purely with one dramatic structure and that is the rite of passage. I'm not really skilled in any other. Rock and roll itself can be described as music to accompany the rite of passage.
Pete Townshend

Music, Today, Rock

We must develop huge demonstrations, because the world is used to big dramatic affairs. They think in terms of hundreds of thousands and millions and billions... Billions of dollars are appropriated at the twinkling of an eye. Nothing little counts.
A. Philip Randolph

Nothing, Big, Used

When you're young and everything dramatic is exciting, you start to believe that hype that, in order to be an artist, you have to suffer. I've graduated from that school.
Lauryn Hill

School, Everything, Young

I don't listen to a lot of new stuff. I just like the old stuff. It's all quite dramatic and atmospheric. You'd have an entire story in song. I never listen to, like, white music - I couldn't sing you a Zeppelin or Floyd song.
Amy Winehouse

Music, Old, Song

My own theory is that we are in the middle of a dramatic and broad technological and economic shift in which software companies are poised to take over large swathes of the economy.
Marc Andreessen

Economic, Economy, Large

Perhaps the single most dramatic example of this phenomenon of software eating a traditional business is the suicide of Borders and corresponding rise of Amazon.
Marc Andreessen

Business, Single, Rise

The nature of the global business environment guarantees that no matter how hard we work to create a stable and healthy organisation, our organisation will continue to experience dramatic changes far beyond our control.
Margaret J. Wheatley

Work, Nature, Business

There is an air of unreality in debating these arcane points when the world is changing in such dramatic ways right in front of our eyes because of global warming.
Al Gore

Eyes, Ways, Front

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. Maybe I'm drawn to it as a story element.
Gus Van Sant

Life, Death, Why

The most anxious time was during launch, just because that is so dramatic.
Sally Ride

Time, Anxious, Launch

My grandmother had the most dramatic effect on my life because she set me in one direction, and I had to go back the other direction for my sanity, and for my ability to be a social human being.
James Earl Jones

Life, Human, She

When sudden death takes a president, opportunities for new beginnings flourish among the ambitious and the tensions among such people can be dramatic, as they were when President Kennedy was killed.
Russell Baker

Death, President, Takes

My country is in the grips of a major economic crisis. This is causing dramatic consequences for the very existence of Polish families. A permanent economic crisis in Poland may also have serious repercussions for Europe. Thus, Poland ought to be helped and deserves help.
Lech Walesa

Crisis, Help, May

When I was a child I devoured every book I could get my hands on. I loved losing myself in colourful and dramatic stories - and my absolute favourite was 'Charlie And The Chocolate Factory.' Everything about it electrified me, and when I re-read Roald Dahl's books as an adult it surprised me.
David Walliams

Book, Everything, Child

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