Quotes of Dramatic - somelinesforyou

“ Every man is a borrower and a mimic; life is theatrical and literature a quotation. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ In the theatrical works we love and admire the most, the ending of the drama generally takes place offstage. ”

- Gustav Mahler

“ I think theater ought to be theatrical... you know, shuffling the pack in different ways so that it's — there's always some kind of ambush involved in the experience. You're being ambushed by an unexpected word, or by an elephant falling out of the cupboard, whatever it is. ”

- Tom Stoppard

“ I was going to be an architect. I graduated with a degree in architecture and I had a scholarship to go back to Princeton and get my Masters in architecture. I'd done theatricals in college, but I'd done them because it was fun. ”

- James Stewart

“ The drama may be called that part of theatrical art which lends itself most readily to intellectual discussion: what is left is theater. ”

- Robertson Davies

“ Black Books adheres to a more old fashioned, traditional sitcom format, which I think works, because in its own way, it's quite theatrical. ”

- Dylan Moran

“ There is a thin line between politics and theatricals. ”

- Julian Bond

“ There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt. ”

- Erma Bombeck

“ My favorite review described me as the cinematic equivalent of junk mail. ”

- Steve Buscemi

“ Glory is largely a theatrical concept. There is no striving for glory without a vivid awareness of an audience. ”

- Eric Hoffer

“ I'm careful not to give into theatrics when times are tough, I don't like it when somebody gives into outside pressure and puts on a show for others. ”

- Tony La Russa

“ Has anybody ever seen a dramatic critic in the daytime? Of course not. They come out after dark, up to no good. ”

- P.G. Wodehouse

“ I think we're looking at the next major superstar in golf. Tiger has a flair for the dramatic and one of those smiles that lights up the screen. ”

- Don Ohlmeyer

“ Religious advertising is undergoing a dramatic conversion. ”

- Lisa Miller

“ January, month of empty pockets! Let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producer's forehead. ”

- Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

“ The popularity of that baby-faced boy, who possessed not even the elements of a good actor, was a hallucination in the public mind, and a disgrace to our theatrical history. ”

- Thomas Campbell

“ If this life be not a real fight in which something is eternally gained… it is no better than a game of private theatricals from which one may withdraw at will. ”

- William James

“ The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that… and all the glory of it. ”

- John Adams

“ I studied at the Budapest Academy of Theatrical Arts for four years and emerged with a degree. ”

- Bela Lugosi

“ No operatic star has yet died soon enough for me. ”

- Thomas Beecham

“ But then in novels the most indifferent hero comes out right at last. Some god comes out of a theatrical cloud and leaves the poor devil ten thousand-a-year and a title. ”

- Anthony Trollope

“ I was never any good in the school theatrical productions. I always got a role like the March Hare. ”

- Jacqueline Bisset

“ That's the way the deal is. I'm not trying to make it theatrical, but that's the way it really is. The ears are up. ”

- Bill Parcells

“ I had a toy theater and a magic lantern, and when I was eight I built a stage for theatricals in the attic. ”

- James Broughton

“ There may be ways in which we can work for change. We don't have to do dramatic things or devote our entire lives to it. We can lead normal lives but at the same time try hard not to be bystanders. ”

- Helen Bamber

“ A dramatic critic is a man who leaves no turn unstoned. ”

- George Bernard Shaw

“ A crisis does not always appear to a policymaker as a series of dramatic events. Usually it imposes itself as an exhausting agenda of petty chores demanding both concentration and endurance. ”

- Henry Kissinger

“ Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences. ”

- J. K. Rowling

“ A good many dramatic situations begin with screaming. ”

- Jane Fonda

“ Bigness comes from doing many small things well. Individually, they are not very dramatic transactions. Together, though, they add up. ”

- Edward S. Finkelstein
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