Dramatic Effect Quotes

#1. 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

#2. In the first place, it must be remembered that our point of view in examining the construction of a play will not always coincide with that which we occupy in thinking of its whole dramatic effect.

Andrew Coyle Bradley

#3. Educational television had a dramatic effect on relational aggression. The more the kids watched, the crueler they'd be to their classmates. This correlation was 2.5 times higher than the correlation between violent media and physical aggression.

Po Bronson

#4. The theater itself is a lie. Its deaths are mere special effects. Its tales never happened. Even the histories are distorted for dramatic effect. The theater is unnatural, a place of imagination. But the theater tells the audience something true: that the world requires judgments.

Virginia Postrel

#5. You know I like my sushi like I like my men ... ." She paused for dramatic effect then added, " ... With two slices of ginger." "You

Penny Reid

#6. If these elements of beauty are real, the whole thing simply appeals to our sense of dramatic effect. Suddenly we find that we are no longer the actors, but the spectators of the play. Or rather we are both. We watch ourselves, and the mere wonder of the spectacle enthralls us. In

Oscar Wilde

#7. Right." A soft, choked laugh. "Kind of ruins the dramatic effect if I'm storming off in the wrong direction, doesn't it?

Kelley Armstrong

#8. It has always seemed to me that so long as you produce your dramatic effect, accuracy of detail matters little. I have never striven for it and I have made some bad mistakes in consequence. What matter if I hold my readers?

Arthur Conan Doyle

#9. Do you know what I found?
Of course I do, and you know that I do. You just want to ask for dramatic effect and then you're going to tell me anyway.

Katja Millay

#10. Prose is something that is persistent in staying in one place long enough to not only zero in on the dramatic effect of something that might have happened, or something that might have been seen, but also in watching how it played out and thinking about the cause and the effect.

Tracy K. Smith

#11. It is open to question whether the highly individualized characters we find in Shakespeare are perhaps not detrimental to the dramatic effect. The human being disappears to the same degree as the individual emerges.

Franz Grillparzer

#12. I don't know. After the downstairs, I assumed something creepier and dirtier." I
shrugged. "You didn't have electricity down there."
"It's for dramatic effect." Loki gestured widely. "It's a dungeon.

Amanda Hocking

#13. I walked away for dramatic effect," he says. "I wasn't finished eating.

Colleen Hoover

#14. The self ... is not an organic thing that has a specific location, whose fundamental fate is to be born, to mature, to die; it is a dramatic effect arising diffusely from a scene that is presented.

Erving Goffman

#15. Warren returns from his room and sits back down at the table.
"I walked away for dramatic effect," he says. "I wasn't finished eating yet.

Colleen Hoover

#16. Climate change is having a dramatic effect on the ground.

Andrew Mitchell

#17. Paradise on my right, Hell on my left and the Angel of Death behind.

Frank Herbert

#18. Sometimes the effect arrives thanks to a different kind of breakthrough: a dramatic increase in our ability to MEASURE something, and an improvement in the tools we build for measuring. New ways of measuring almost always imply new ways of making.

Steven Johnson

#19. I've learned that hurting you feels infinitely worse than being hurt myself.

Emma McLaughlin

#20. If you get tough mentally, you can get tough physically and overcome fatigue.

Pat Riley

#21. You look at the large problems that we face - that would be overpopulation, water shortages, global warming and AIDS, I suppose - all of that needs international cooperation to be solved.

Molly Ivins

#22. If you will pardon my saying so," Tharkay said, "you will never satisfy them on that point: the last thing you or Temeraire will ever give anyone is quiet obedience. Have you considered it might be better not to try?

Naomi Novik

#23. We're blessed to be worrying about the silly things that we worry about when people are worrying about where they are going to sleep, and what they are going to feed their kids every day.

Jennifer Connelly

#24. The answer to the question, 'where's the drama?' is another question: 'what's the problem?

Billy Marshall Stoneking

#25. I've always known my circumstances were far, far from the worst, but I truly believe that just the slightest misalignment in our upbringings can have such a dramatic knock-on effect on our lives.

K.A. Hill

#26. I was probably finding my feet more than anybody. I really have to say I was more obsessed with myself faltering than anybody else.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

#27. I sometimes cry in the moments that are not necessarily dramatic or tragic in the films, often because of the music. I wonder whether it's the music that has that effect on you in this film.

Roman Polanski

#28. The novel ... creates a bemusing effect. The short story, on the other hand wakes the reader up. Not only that, it answers the primitive craving for art, the wit, paradox and beauty of shape, the longing to see a dramatic pattern and significance in our experience.

V.S. Pritchett

#29. But of course he knew, all of them knew. There is only one kind of a person a wizard can marry, and that is a witch.

Eva Ibbotson

#30. I am so coarse, the things the poets see
Are obstinately invisible to me

C.S. Lewis

#31. Dahling, they've always hated me, but this has to be the final nail in the coffee. They're jealous because their mother gave me her diamond pendulum on my wedding day. Now they're demanding it back. They hound me day and night. My God, it's like they have channel vision.

Delora Dennis

#32. Steve always had a flair for the dramatic. He should have raised one ghostly fist in the air as he said it; though,for the full effect.

Kiersten White

#33. I'm wondering if there's a spell to make lightning flash in the background whenever I make an ominous resolution.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

#34. Maura is the kind of friend I enjoy slapping doomsday scenarios with. She's not, however, someone makes me want to prevent stay happening.

John Green

#35. I'm such a huge advocate for strong, intelligent representation of women in the media.

Emma Ishta

#36. When I say "miracle" I mean a kind of thing like a computer on a chip, or the internet, or the cellphone, that are really quite miraculous. Most people would not have predicted them, and their effect has been very, very dramatic.

Bill Gates

#37. True Silence is really endless speech.

Ramana Maharshi

#38. The thing to remeber is that more than anything in this world, these colored people wish they were white.

David Sedaris

#39. She thought she kept seeing him because she wanted to see him," Macey explained.
"Ooooh," Bex and Liz sighed together.
"It's a by-product of very dramatic kissing," Macey went on like a doctor identifying a common side effect.

Ally Carter

#40. Parents are the mystified criminals, blinking in the docks, making it all the worse for themselves with every word they utter.

Michael Cunningham

#41. Our campaign is the opposite of 'competence.'

William J. Clinton

#42. All women who kill or have sexual obsessions or who are prostitutes have trouble with their fathers.

Catherine Deneuve