Drama Quotes
Oscar Wilde
I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.
2697Jodi Picoult
If she spoke, she would tell him the truth: she was not okay at all, but horribly empty, now that she knew what it was like to be filled.
3842Seán O'Casey
All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.
4037Tom Stoppard
We do on stage things that are supposed to happen off. Which is a kind of integrity, if you look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else.
2769Noël Coward
If by any chance a playwright wishes to express a political opinion or a moral opinion or a philosophy, he must be a good enough craftsman to do it with so much spice of entertainment in it that the public get the message without being aware of it.
3251Virginia Woolf
Green in nature is one thing, green in literature another. Nature and letters seem to have a natural antipathy; bring them together and they tear each other to pieces.
1675David Mamet
Every scene should be able to answer three questions: "Who wants what from whom? What happens if they don't get it? Why now?
2885Marsha Norman
The theater is a communal event, like church. The playwright constructs a mass to be performed for a lot of people. She writes a prayer, which is really just the longings of one heart.
4512Richard Rodriguez
The drama of the essay is the way the public life intersects with my personal and private life. It's in that intersection that I find the energy of the essay.
2784Simona Panova
Emotions don’t interfere in my acting, nor in my life.
2982Elizabeth Isaacs
Artists strive for perfection. But what they often fail to see is that the beauty, the humanity, lies within the flaws.
1565Jonathan Anthony Burkett
We all fight for money, some for power, but most of all for love. But me, I fight to become a champion.
2694Mark Twain
The trade of critic, in literature, music, and the drama, is the most degraded of all trades.
3131Deb Caletti
It took me years to figure out that upset was upset, and tumultuousness was not the same thing as passion. Love isn't drama.
4694Gayle Forman
I just wanted to tell you that I understand if you go. It’s okay if you have to leave us. It’s okay if you want to stop fighting.
4066Samuel Beckett
It is suicide to be abroad. But what it is to be at home, ... what it is to be at home? A lingering dissolution.
1821Gene Brewer
Prot: I'm not tired.
Brewer: I am.
Prot: Perhaps you're getting too much sleep. All your beings seem to sleep a lot. Is that because it's so awful to be awake?
2513C.T. Todd
No I'm not a dream, I'm your worst nightmare
3279Fenny Wong
Jika mawar itu berduri, tusuklah hingga merah darahku, agar aku terbangun pada kenyataan tanpa dirimu.
3284Lorraine Gokul
Anger precedes hate, while love vicariously hangs in the balance.
1548Gill McKnight
There ought to be a law that allows eavesdroppers to sue.
4702Fenny Wong
Sakura menekan tombol teleponnya, menelepon orang yang sempat melintas dalam hidupnya itu. Meninggalkan jejak, meninggalkan bekas, tapi tidak pernah muncul kembali. Apakah ia hanya melintas, lalu pergi?
1083C.T. Todd
I feel a blood moon rising" Neesa
4253Pepper Winters
You're unpredictable and dangerous and protect those you love fiercely. You should be proud. To me you're more than a knight in some stupid shiny armour. You're the monster who no one can tame but the woman he loves. - Tess Snow
3995Kristina McMorris
Not every loss was confirmed by an officer at the door. Nor a telegram with the power to sink a fleet. Loss, often the worst kind, also arrived through the deafening quiet of an absence.
1463Roger Hedden
When you don't know where you're going, you drive on the highway.
1574Dave Matthes
...you're either gonna spend your life fucking pussy, or taking it to church.
4378Christopher Fry
What after all, is a halo? It's only one more thing to keep clean.
2967William Shakespeare
There's a tide in the affairs of men, which taken at the flood, leads onto fortune, omitted, all their voyages end in shallows and miseries. Upon such tide are we now...
2799Elizabeth Funderbirk
...Love can give you the most exhilarating wonderful highs at times...
...Then there will be dives that will take all you have just to hold on...
Quote on the Title Page of "Love TORN Asunder
1714Anthony Kiedis
A certain amount of volatility and drama can me healthy and keep things fun and interesting if you're willing at any moment during a fight to say, 'This means nothing. I love you, let's forget about it.
1046Erica Goros
If your blade were as sharp as your tongue, you'd have sliced my through years ago.
4221S.R. Crawford
Besides, men aren’t worth your time anyway, Letti. If we women spent as much time on ourselves as we do fretting over men, we’d be invincible! Work on yourself because at the end of the day, you’re the only person you can trust.
1714Stella Adler
You'll never really be great unless you aim high.
3127Stella Adler
No actor is a success unless he feels inside himself, as long as he lives, that he is good.
2543Margaret Mitchell
You're Ma's own blood son, but did she take on that time Tony Fontaine shot you in the leg? No, she just sent for old Doc Fontaine to dress it and asked the doctor what ailed Tony's aim. Said she guessed the licker was spoiling his marksmanship.
4466Elysse Poetis
Life is the courier of the universal brilliance." Elysse
4451Kerri Thomson
She often felt like she had been cast in a supporting
role with the film that was Louise. And there was more melodrama to be found there than a full-scale Merchant-Ivory period production. Tonight, she was certain, would be no exception.
1273Alijia Izetbegovic
For 1,300 days of Sarajevo's drama, important people in the world who were supposed to act kept their eyes closed, ... But not you. You were not silent. Your voice was clear.
4498Jess C. Scott
Because I want to have sex with him-and because that's sinful-I'm blushing and flushing furiously under his scrutinizing scrutiny.
4253Saurabh Sharma
Fantasy and drama appeal to us. They are socially acceptable and make you feel good about yourself. Moreover, you get rewarded for being cleverly ignorant.
2851S.M. Jonas
The crimson leaf that blew past looked the twin of the one she'd picked up in the palace courtyard: a bloodied hand.
3991Dawson C. Walton
Life is a bowl of cherries just make sure you spit out the pits
3793Jean Genet
It's a true image, born of a false spectacle.
3164F. Scott Fitzgerald
I am glad you are happy-but I never believe much in happiness. I never believe in misery either. Those are things you see on the stage or the screen or the printed page, they never really happen to you in life.
2017Donna Goddard
We become increasingly aware that the human dream, the human drama, with all its questionable, damaging, and often malevolent intention is not real life at all.
4602Kristina McMorris
The whole world can become the enemy when you lose what you love.
2594Kristina McMorris
War doesn’t start with an explosion….It bears far more subtlety. A simmer beneath the surface, as if bringing broth to a boil.
1955Leon Trotsky
The artist can not serve his struggle for freedom unless he subjectively assimilates the social content, unless he feels in his very nerves its meaning and drama and freely seeks to give his own inner world incarnation in his art.
3202Aristophanes
Chorus of old men: How true the saying: 'Tis impossible to live with the baggages, impossible to live without 'em.
3239Jodi Picoult
[There's a] point where you have to leave the dough alone. It's silly to anthropomorphize bread, but I love the fact that it needs to sit quietly, to retreat from touch and noise and drama, in order to evolve.
I have to admit, I often feel that way myself.
3352Vivian Amis
All problems, though appearing outside of you, must be resolved within YOU.
4955Tori Kinsey
We have the ability to rise up and take control of our lives, if only we stop to pay attention to the warning signs that we so often find ourselves excusing and ignoring.
3148Tori Kinsey
Good does not attract evil but the opposite, it fights to shine light on darkness.
1144G.K. Chesterton
Family is the theatre of the spiritual drama, the place where things happen, especially the things that matter.
2316Sarah Swainson
It was as though everything that mattered was encapsulated in that last moment of my blissful state of oblivion.
1045Sarah Swainson
To get here had been painful, but for once in my life I felt free.
2031Sarah Swainson
I did not want to set my world alight, to watch it burn because of the sister I had come to love too much.
4958Sarah Swainson
At least it was love we were showing initially, and not hatred and violence like you did in the end.
3532Ruth McLeod-Kearns
Becky was a weed. Nobody ever wanted them taking over the bigger, prettier plants. People went to all extremes to make them go away. They sprayed poison, pulled until the roots gave way. They felt only like their garden was complete when every tendril was extirpated. This was how she felt from birth.
2225Ruth McLeod-Kearns
In the beginning we start with roses. The king’s flower right? Only they wilt in less than a day, especially when exposed to the elements. But Carnations? Oh, what a beautiful flower. They come in every color. True, some are painted, but that doesn’t mean they are less beautiful, and they never wilt.
4698Sydney Logan
[bookcover:Lessons Learned|13578440] Another shot, and for some reason, I’m the only one who can’t move. Who can’t scream. Who can’t do anything but watch as the young man’s body slumps over his tray. Finally, I find my voice and scream his name.
4891Sydney Logan
A young girl needs to spread her wings, but a young woman needs roots.
3260Suzy Duffy
And we all know how ladies get minks . . .”
Popsy and Sandra chorused the answer together. “The same way minks get minks!
3767Brandi L. Bates
Drama does not just walk into our lives. Either we create it, invite it, or associate with it.
4317Brandi L. Bates
When my son speaks of playing sports, I've always told him: playing on the team is great, but aspire to be the guy who owns the team. I've always told my son: most of the guys on the team will end up bankrupt with bum knees, but not the guy who owns that franchise.
2879Kate White
She had her sonar continually set for excuses to entertain, to bring together influential and powerful people in a mix that hummed, sizzled, throbbed, and sometimes burst into flames. But I was delighted to be her excuse tonight.
4024Dave Matthes
Sad, slow music in the small hours of the morning isn't just sad and slow music. It's a narration. And through the myriad of morning dew, we are the twinkling stars that fade with the rising sun.
4430Ann Marie Frohoff
There's something to say about inspiration - when it comes into your life...the feeling is insatiable.
4839Frank McCourt
They said her duck recipe and the Chinese music were so dramatic everything else sounded anemic.
1891Sue Grafton
You can’t save others from themselves because those who make a perpetual muddle of their lives don’t appreciate your interfering with the drama they’ve created. They want your poor-sweet-baby sympathy, but they don’t want to change.
4297Avery Sawyer
I don't believe everything happens for a reason. But I still search for reasons anyway. It's like I don't want to admit that maybe everything really is totally random...that people are just molecules in the air, bumping into each other and floating away again."
-p150, NOTES TO SELF
2501Jonathan Anthony Burkett
Stop worrying about being that perfect person because no one is perfect. Put your focus on being that right person that will love, understand, and care for that other.
4137F. Scott Fitzgerald
No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.
2743Terri F. Williams
I know when my life is over my writings will live on, perhaps in a story or maybe a sweet love song. You see, I do not write for glory or to get anything for free. I just sit down and I write, because it makes so much sense to me.
3722Thomas Sweeney
Have you ever believed in something so completely that you were willing to give up everything and everyone in your life to protect it?
2058Thomas Sweeney
The destruction of something beautiful can appear so entertaining.
2130Thomas Sweeney
... The use of your gift for good is your responsibility. You must decide for yourself.
1978Thomas Sweeney
My eyes refuse to let him leave, but he stands still holding my hand, lingering for as long as possible.
4312Jason Leclerc
I have been incapable of moving, even a finger or an eye, for at least a year now. I feel relatively certain about this timeframe because I have been watching the crepe myrtle outside the window of the room I am in...
4718Nick Moccia
The simplicity of youth is mesmerizing to me. Maybe because I didn't know it long enough."
London Drake
"They All fall down
1795Courtney Giardina
. I felt the sun graze my face as I sped further and further from it all. The only negative part about running was that at some point I knew I’d have to stop. I’d have to turn around and go back. And whatever troubles had haunted me when I left, would be waiting upon my return.
4990Raji Singh
My great-great grandfather and I were the best of friends, although we never met
3474Yvonne J. Medley
It's said that there's three sides to a story: yours, mine, and the truth. Check out God in Wingtip Shoes and The Prison Plumb Line to explore all three.
1270Harold Bloom
There is no God but God, and his name is William Shakespeare.
1729Stephen King
Monsters are real and ghosts are real too they live inside us and sometimes they win.
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