Overly Dramatic Quotes

#1. As a 28 year old who's lived long enough to know the difference, I know now that the feelings I felt an 16 were not necessarily correct. But however overly dramatic, the desperation and hopelessness I felt at 16 was my reality.

Billy Corgan

#2. I remembered seeing it and it was this metallic turbine and I thought it was beautiful. I had never been in a power plant before, but I felt, without being overly dramatic, compelled to make photographs of this for myself.

John Sexton

#3. Black and awkward is the worst, because black people are stereotyped as being anything but awkward in mainstream media ... Black people are always portrayed to be cool or overly dramatic, anything but awkward.

Issa Rae

#4. I don't want to make any general statements, but I feel like so many stories that are presented as being about humanity and human emotion are just so convoluted and overly dramatic and focus on these certain little things that are supposedly meaningful, but just don't really mean anything.

Ellar Coltrane

#5. Anytime she was in the room, it was like the whole place was bathed in her warmth." He tilted his head, looking thoughtful for a second. "Does that sound like an exaggeration? Maybe overly dramatic, poetic words from a boy who has loved her his whole life?

Mia Sheridan

#6. You can be a lot more subtle on TV, which is funny because I feel like TV is known for being the opposite of that. The thing we experience in life is that things are not overly dramatic, and things often happen in really small ways.

Jay Duplass

#7. I don't want to be overly dramatic about it, but I think people more and more wonder, is this living, or are we just going through the motions? What's happening? Is everything being leached out of life? Is the whole texture and values and everything kind of draining away?

John Zerzan

#8. Russell T. Goode was so dominant in the Olympic Power Wrestling tournament that he fought himself in the final.

Michael S. Hunter

#9. Science, however, is not just a matter of making mistakes, but of making mistakes in public. Making mistakes for all to see, in the hopes of getting the others to help with the corrections.

Daniel C. Dennett

#10. And believing that we are broken is the same as being broken. It means we experience ourselves that way. That perception shapes our reality. It is an illusion we must strive to avoid, as great misery comes from such a belief.

Jewel

#11. She was worried these thoughts would crush her if she let them come, but they didn't. You didn't know how heavy they were until you tried to lift them. You didn't know how strong you were.

Ann Brashares

#12. I wake, the lump of last night
hiking a trail through my throat.

[from "Those Who Love Raptors"]

Alina Stefanescu

#13. When one has tasted watermelon he knows what the angels eat.

Mark Twain

#14. Homesickness springs from the isolation of the soul from its surroundings.

Henryk Sienkiewicz

#15. You manage things; you lead people.

Grace Hopper

#16. Scratch an artist and you surprise a child.

James Huneker

#17. If you have wonderful moments, don't second-guess them, just enjoy them.

Martin Short

#18. If R. Akiva was perhaps overly generous in judging his generation, it can perhaps be ascribed to the belief, based on his own experience, that everyone is capable of a dramatic life change.

Meir Soloveichik

#19. James scoffed. "We are not being held prisoner. You're so dramatic."
"Oh yeah, she just kidnapped us and told us the only way we're going to be let go is if we go to other alien planets and steal from them. You're right, James, I'm clearly overly overreacting," Kat snapped.

L. Taylor