Dramatizing Quotes

#1. Man kills, the things he love the most, sometimes by the virtue of hatred, crime, anger and war and sometimes by dramatizing his activities. But he is not aware that his killings are his own self-image.

Santosh Kalwar

#2. Mom's a hypochondriac, too, so the best part was that every week she would get the disease that the medical shows were dramatizing. I'll never forget, they did an episode on sickle cell anemia, which as far as I know, is almost exclusively an African-American affliction.

Kathy Griffin

#3. There is a difference between dramatizing your sensibility and your personality. The literary works which we think of as classicsdid the former. Much modern writing does the latter, and so has an affinity with, say, night-club acts in all their shoddy immediacy.

Paul Horgan

#4. I first went to Indonesia in 2001 for six months. I was to help a community of plantation workers to make a film documenting and dramatizing the struggle to organize a union in the aftermath of the Suharto dictatorship.

Joshua Oppenheimer

#5. I want to write about serious things, but I want to write about them in a way that makes them accessible to a large number of people - to take them through the argument by dramatizing the circumstances in which these issues are being discussed.

Sebastian Faulks

#6. Whether as victim, demon, or hero, the industrial worker of the past century filled the public imagination in books, movies, news stories, and even popular songs, putting a grimy human face on capitalism while dramatizing the social changes and conflicts it brought.

George Packer

#7. Doctors estimate that seventy to eighty percent of their business is non-health-related. People aren't sick, they're self-dramatizing. Sometimes the hardest part of a medical job is keeping a straight face.

Steven Pressfield

#8. Nothing disfigures the intellectual's public
performance as much as trimming, careful silence, patriotic bluster, and retrospective and self-dramatizing apostasy.

Edward Said

#9. Just because you have been through a bad experience does not give you the ticket to keep going back to that situation over and over again and dramatizing it out of proportion.

Stephen Richards

#10. I believe myself to be the type of person who does not complicate his life. I have always lived my life without dramatizing things, whether the good things that have happened to me or the bad. I simply live those moments.

Jose Saramago

#11. [Science fiction's] most important use, I submit, is a means of dramatizing social inquiry, as providing a fictional mode in which cultural tendencies can be isolated and judged.

Kingsley Amis

#12. Writing about the future and the past is less a way of dramatizing change than of showing, by way of contrast, what abides.

Walter Kirn

#13. I am proud to be a Turk, and to write in Turkish about Turkey - and to have been translated into about 40 languages. But I don't want to politicize things by dramatizing them.

Orhan Pamuk

#14. I am not a cynic.

Kevin Costner

#15. Posttraumatic stress is something that's always existed. I think that the earliest recording was during the Trojan War, but it's only recently that we're beginning to be aware of it.

Janine Di Giovanni

#16. In meditation ... the power of God begins to reflect in the clear waters of your consciousness.

Paramahansa Yogananda

#17. Avarice begets more vices than Priam did children and like Priam survives them all. It starves its keeper to surfeit those who wish him dead, and makes him submit to more mortifications to lose heaven than the martyr undergoes to gain it.

Charles Caleb Colton

#18. How do you change the world? One room at a time. Which room? The one you're in.

Peter Block

#19. I'd learned not to put a question mark where God put a period.

Cupcake Brown

#20. The Evil Onionman

James Sharkey

#21. As the body dieth when the soul departeth, so the soul of man dieth, when it hath not the knowledge of God.

John Jewel

#22. Life pulls softly inside your bindings. The pod glows - dear stench.

Anne Carson

#23. The great city is the best organ of memory man has yet created.

Lewis Mumford

#24. I don't make love ... I fuck hard. Fifty Shades of Grey

E.L. James

#25. A philosopher once said, 'Half of good philosophy is good grammar.'

A. P. Martinich

#26. So how do you know Vampires aren't just some legend made up to scare little kids into minding their parents?"
Adam's voice was full of scorn. "Because you and I exist and we're descendants of Fate and Time.

April White

#27. When I was in college, my brother, B.R. Chopra, who is everything to me, was a director in Bombay. He taught me filmmaking. What I am today is because of him.

Yash Chopra

#28. Any politician or scientist who tells you these [GMO] products are safe is either very stupid or lying.

David Suzuki