#dramatic

Because you know that's all I needs, all I wants, is for you to try to run, to turn your back on me and run. I know you aint going to. Because all you got to beat is me. I got to beat old Carothers. Get your pistol." "No," the other said. "Go home. Get out of here. Tonight I will come to your house-----" "After this?" Lucas said. "Me and you, in the same country, breathing the same air even? No matter what you could say, what you could even prove so I would have to believe it, after this? Get your pistol. ↗

— William Faulkner

#dramatic-moment #go-down-moses #william-faulkner #home

Jake leaned on the horn, swearing loudly. Gina covered her eyes. Doc flung his arms around me, burying his face in my lap, and Dopey, to my great surprise, began to scream like a girl, very close to my ear.... ↗

— Meg Cabot

#humor #humor

I'm developing some other things in other genres, including one dramatic piece. So, anything's possible. ↗

— Jay Roach

#developing #dramatic #genres #i #including

As you and I listen to Uncle Monty tell the three Baudelaire orphans that no harm will ever come to them in the Reptile Room, we should be experiencing the strange feeling that accompanies the arrival of dramatic irony. This feeling is not unlike the sinking in one's stomach when one is in an elevator that suddenly goes down, or when you are snug in bed and your closet door suddenly creaks open to reveal the person who has been hiding there. For no matter how safe and happy the three children felt, no matter how comforting Uncle Monty's words were, you and I know that soon Uncle Monty will be dead and the Baudelaires will be miserable once again. ↗

— Lemony Snicket

#dramatic-irony #foreshadowing #death

You Never Know A True Friend Until You get Into A Serious Misunderstanding With Him Or Her ↗

— Michael A. Johnson

#dramatic #inspirational #inspirational

Maybe there's a chance to get back to grown-up films. Anything that uses humor and dramatic values to deal with human emotions and gets down to what people are to people. ↗

— Robert Altman

#back #chance #deal #down #dramatic

Olympic Gold changed me and my life dramatically. I became a celebrity overnight and people see me as a famous skater, not a real person. ↗

— Oksana Baiul

#celebrity #changed #dramatically #famous #gold

We're in a tightening cycle and the reason is the economy is growing, there's no expectation that the global economy and the Polish economy as a consequence could slow down dramatically. ↗

— Marek Belka

#could #cycle #down #dramatically #economy

I acknowledge Shakespeare to be the world's greatest dramatic poet, but regret that no parent could place the uncorrected book in the hands of his daughter, and therefore I have prepared the Family Shakespeare. ↗

— Thomas Bowdler

#book #could #daughter #dramatic #family

I've thought about doing other dramatic roles besides westerns, but I grew up in the West and I know the West. ↗

— Ken Curtis

#besides #doing #dramatic #dramatic roles #grew