Drama Quotes

Revenge never ends until everything and everyone around it is destroyed. A vengeful heart never rests.

~ Jason Lloyd

It's all interrelated, these destructive things I do. I latch on to people, like I'm collecting them. I'm always looking for a hero, you know?

~ Jenna Brooks

It's inspiration that counts, not the drill.

~ Hugo Ball

It was only a smile, nothing more. It didn't make everything all right. It didn't make ANYTHING all right. Only a smile. A tiny thing. A leaf in the woods, shaking in the wake of a startled bird's flight. But I'll take it. With open arms. Because when spring comes, it melts the snow one flake at a time, and maybe I just witnessed the first flake melting. - Amir

~ Khaled Hosseini

People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messes cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown.

~ Chuck Palahniuk

The other girl, Iko, cupped her chin with both hands. This is so much better than a net drama.

~ Marissa Meyer

She had no tolerance for scenes which were not of her own making.

~ Edith Wharton

And, since they are theater people, they are all talking. All of them. Simultaneously. They do not need to be heard; they only need to be speaking.

~ John Green

If there really is such a thing as turning in one's grave, Shakespeare must get a lot of exercise.

~ George Orwell

In the language of an actor, to know is synonymous with to feel

~ Konstantin Stanislavski

What, my dear Lady Disdain! are you yet living?Beatrice: Is it possible disdain should die while she hathsuch meet food to feed it as Signior Benedick?

~ William Shakespeare

Everyone thinks I named my cat Mango because of his orange eyes, but that's not the case. I named him Mango because the sounds of his purrs and his wheezes and his meows are all various shades of yellow-orange.

~ Wendy Mass

Her heart was finished. It bore, perhaps, records of life, but it wasn't alive. Too late for decoration. Too late for effects. Further handling could only result in cracks and fractures. People could cut themselves on the edgesof her heart, she was sure of it.

~ Stephanie Kallos

I saw myself driving through Eternity in a timeless taxi.

~ Katherine Mansfield

Has anybody ever seen a drama critic in the daytime? Of course not. They come out after dark, up to no good.

~ P.g. Wodehouse

Only half a page left now. Shall I fill it with 'I love you, I love you'-- like father's page of cats on the mat? No. Even a broken heart doesn't warrant a waste of good paper.

~ Dodie Smith

What if two people want to be your partner, then what?

~ Emily Giffin

I have really sinned. I am going to pause now, and sit here on the mound repenting in deepest shame...

~ Dodie Smith

In Ohio seasons are theatrical. Each one enters like a prima donna, convinced its performance is the reason the world has people in it.

~ Toni Morrison

But what are kings, when regiment is gone,But perfect shadows in a sunshine day?- Edward II, 5.1

~ Christopher Marlowe

Today is your big moment. Moments, really. The life you’ve been waiting for is happening all around you. The scene unfolding right outside your window is worth more than the most beautiful painting, and the crackers and peanut butter that you’re having for lunch on the coffee table are as profound, in their own way, as the Last Supper. This is it. This is life in all its glory, swirling and unfolding around us, disguised as pedantic, pedestrian non-events. But pull of the mask and you will find your life, waiting to be made, chosen, woven, crafted. Your life, right now, today, is exploding with energy and power and detail and dimension, better than the best movie you have ever seen. You and your family and your friends and your house and your dinner table and your garage have all the makings of a life of epic proportions, a story for the ages. Because they all are. Every life is. You have stories worth telling, memories worth remembering, dreams worth working toward, a body worth feeding, a soul worth tending, and beyond that, the God of the universe dwells within you, the true culmination of super and natural. You are more than dust and bones. You are spirit and power and image of God. And you have been given Today.

~ Shauna Niequist

It's going to be okay. That's what everyone says when they really have no idea how it's going to be.

~ Avery Sawyer

Drama is based on the Mistake.

~ W.h. Auden

Nor shall this peace sleep with her; but as whenThe bird of wonder dies, the maiden phoenix,Her ashes new-create another heirAs great in admiration as herself.

~ William Shakespeare

No I am not okay. I've just been pulled out of play tryouts where I had to be the first to audition and everyone's trying out for the same parts, I just had a very bizarre conversation with the school secretary, Megan may be throwing up her cucumber sandwiches, I've broken five of the seven deadly sins in as many hours, a demon may be inside a girl in my world religions class, Grant Brawner called me by name, my license photo looks like a dead fish, I have to drive my friends all over town in two hours when I've never even driven without Dad before, none of my birthday wishes have come true yet, and now you're here with muffins like I'm in second grade? So, no, I am not ok.

~ Wendy Mass

Every reiteration of the idea that _nothing matters_ debases the human spirit.Every reiteration of the idea that there is no drama in modern life, there is only dramatization, that there is no tragedy, there is only unexplained misfortune, debases us. It denies what we know to be true. In denying what we know, we are as a nation which cannot remember its dreams--like an unhappy person who cannot remember his dreams and so denies that he does dream, and denies that there are such things as dreams.

~ David Mamet

The moving light, rejoicing in its strength, Sped from the pyre of pine, and urged its way, In golden glory, like some strange new sun...

~ Aeschylus

Just because some people are fueled by drama doesn't mean you have to attend the performance.

~ Cheryl Richardson

It’s the uncertainty of being accepted that creates the drama in our lives.

~ Elizabeth Eulberg

I made mistakes in drama. I thought drama was when actors cried. But drama is when the audience cries.

~ Frank Capra

Damn it! Are you so stupid you don't know what I'm going to do to you?Her eyes bore into his without flinching. Are you so stupid you haven't figured out yet that it doesn't matter?

~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.

~ Oliver Goldsmith

The plays should have the half-life of plutonium.

~ Suzan-Lori Parks

...then we went skinny dippin' and did things that frighten the fish...Character, Shelby Eatonton, from the movie, Steel Magnolias.

~ Robert Harling

BOTTOMThere are things in this comedy of Pyramus and Thisby that will never please. First, Pyramus must draw a sword to kill himself; which the ladiescannot abide. How answer you that?SNOUTBy'r lakin, a parlous fear.STARVELINGI believe we must leave the killing out, when all is done.BOTTOMNot a whit: I have a device to make all well.Write me a prologue; and let the prologue seem tosay, we will do no harm with our swords, and thatPyramus is not killed indeed; and, for the morebetter assurance, tell them that I, Pyramus, am notPyramus, but Bottom the weaver: this will put themout of fear.QUINCEWell, we will have such a prologue; and it shall bewritten in eight and six.BOTTOMNo, make it two more; let it be written in eight and eight.

~ William Shakespeare

She reached into the pocket of her dress and threw the small stack of bills at him. They fluttered to the ground like broken dreams. I hope you choke onevery penny.Pick that up.She drew back her arm and slapped him as hard as she could.

~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips

If he's the person i think he is, he'll handle it just right Tarah had said. If not, your better off without him.

~ Paul Langan

I said the first thing that came into my head unfortunately. Save the drama for your mama I told her just like an eleven-year-old.

~ Charlaine Harris

Every one of us is a minor tragedy. Most of us learn to cope.

~ Elizabeth Bear

……, but as I am a scholar I feel obliged to document what it is like here, most of the time, between the dramatic climaxes. In truth it is like this: You cannot imagine how time can be so still. It hangs. It weighs, and yet there is so little of it. It goes so slowly and it is so scarce. If I was writing this scene it would last a full 15 minutes. I would lie here and you would sit there.

~ Margaret Edson