Famous Quotes & Sayings

There's been a fairly dramatic expansion of the investor universe. This has happened since the end of 1999.

There's drama at the border. Visa overstays is a yawn.

There is such a dramatic correlation between practicing well and playing well. . . . Talent has never been a question, either. We knew that last year when we recruited him. He has a ton of ability.

At a minimum, we do not see any dramatic reversals for North American automakers.

Margaret Mead

As Significant as the Invention of Drama or the Novel.

Bobby Bowden

They missed a field goal at the end that could have tied it up. That was probably the most dramatic of all the games. We won the national championship that year, so we had to have it.

This is occurring in spite of dramatic increases in health spending the last three or four years. The provinces are spending more and more and more on health care, and the wait times are stalling out.

Chuck Palahniuk

Think of a rock polisher, one of those drums, goes round and round, rolls twenty four/seven, full of water and rocks and gravel. Grinding it all up. Round and round. Polishing those ugly rocks into gemstones. That's the earth. Why it goes around. We're the rocks. And what happens to us- the drama and pain and joy and war and sickness and victory and abuse- why, that's just the water and sand to erode us. Grind us down. To polish us up, nice and bright.

They don't (just) show up for four practices a week and a game on Friday and that's it. They are working all the time. Drama teachers have to be the same thing.

You can't listen to the news or watch the dramatic images of the effects of Katrina and not want to lend a hand,

Ben Nelson

There will be a rather dramatic shift from the typically dry months of March and April, to the rainy season that is underway by June.

There really isn't any dramatic news to come out post-Fed ? we're going to get into that earnings void, the next meeting for the Fed isn't until late June, so I think the story is how well the pullback in this market will be contained.

Nikki Cox

There's a lot more room for error in drama. With comedy, if you mess up, you fall flat on your face. With drama there's a lot more room to play.

Jack Smith

This is a tremendous send off to our 75th anniversary. To start with a musical represents what Wheaton Drama is all about, which is having fun.

Jack Smith

This is a tremendous send off to our 75th anniversary, ... To start with a musical represents what Wheaton Drama is all about, which is having fun.

This is a time for all of us who share responsibility for mining safety to come together and look for ways to make mining safer. We have made dramatic improvements over the last 15 years, but there's more to be done.

This is nothing dramatic following Texas Instruments' upgrade last week.

Romany Malco

For me, comedy and drama are all the same thing.

Sam Raimi

I've always loved... actually I didn't always love horror films. I started out and I only liked comedies and dramas.

Sam Neill

Because I was familiar with Taika's Watiti work and there's a very subversive, funny streak amongst all of them. I don't think he turned [Hunt for the Wilderpeople] into a sort of drama, there's too much dark material underneath it for it to be a comedy; it wasn't designed to be a comedy. I think it's a comedy... I think it's a drama that's funny; which is different.

Roland Barthes

Even hidden in the most squalid Parisian halls, wrestling partakes of the nature of the great solar spectacles, Greek drama and bullfights: in both, a light without shadow generates an emotion without reserve.

Susan Sarandon

I did study drama at Catholic U, but the undergraduates weren't put in productions, really, except as extras, and it wasn't a hands-on kind of thing at all. I couldn't afford to go to another college. And my grandparents lived in D.C., so I was able to live with them, and that's how I was able to afford it at all.

Susan Cain

Whoever you are, bear in mind that appearance is not reality. Some people act like extroverts, but the effort costs them energy, authenticity, and even physical health. Others seem aloof or self-contained, but their inner landscapes are rich and full of drama. So the next time you see a person with a composed face and a soft voice, remember that inside her mind she might be solving an equation, composing a sonnet, designing a hat. She might, that is, be deploying the powers of quiet.

Sonia Choquette

Remaining calm no matter what's going on around you is an incredible challenge, but it will liberate your psychic sense and will probably add a few years to your life as well-after all, getting worked up about things only makes them worse. Life is always full of drama and challenges, but you don't have to overreact to any of it if you choose not to.

Sonia Choquette

Life is always full of drama and challenges, but you don't have to overreact to any of it if you choose not to.

Steve Coogan

Knowing about comedy has helped me with the drama. To see people laugh, it's like there are moments of catharsis in the middle of sadness.

Steve Coogan

I like comedy, but I like comedy as a device in drama. It's more interesting for me to use comedy to seduce people into thinking about something serious. If you want to hit a beat in a drama, you can distract people with a little comedy, and you can punch them in the gut with some emotion.

Steve Coogan

As soon as I see period costume, I turn off. It's like hearing drama on Radio 4.

Stephen Moyer

The position of power and having to make decisions that you don't necessarily want to make is always good conflict and good drama.

Stephen Moyer

Conflict is drama, and how people deal with conflict shows you the kind of people they are.

Monica Ali

I always try to create conflict and drama in my books; it's the engine of the novel.

Peter Billingsley

I think if you turn down the volume on the good comedy, you should not even know if it's a comedy or not. It should look like a drama.

Peter Billingsley

I think good comedy is a commitment to the absurd in that the situation for the actors should be virtually played like a drama.