Quotes about Drama
And of course she enjoyed life immensely. It was her nature to enjoy. Anyhow there was no bitterness in her; none of that sense of moral virtue which is so repulsive in good women. She enjoyed practically everything. If you walked with her in Hyde Park now it was a bed of tulips, now a child in a perambulator, now some absurd little drama she made up on the spur of the moment.
- Virginia Woolf
Make them laugh, make them cry, make them wait.
- Charles Dickens
Would you like to know the great drama of my life? It is that I have put my genius into my life...I have put only my talent into my works.
- Oscar Wilde
Maximus expressly says that the Incarnation—more precisely, the drama of Cross, grave, and Resurrection—is not only the midpoint of world history but the foundational idea of the world itself.
- Hans Urs von Balthasar
There is no overacting, only untrue acting.
- Stellan Skarsgard
Paul and Silas sang hymns in the Philippian jail. You can only do that if you have remembered that your welfare and freedom are in the hands of an all-powerful God who is your Father. Much of the drama of God's people is a drama of identity.
- Timothy Lane
Don't say the old lady screamed. Bring her on and let her scream.
- Mark Twain
For the future let those who come to play with me have no hearts,' she cried, and she ran out into the garden.
- Oscar Wilde
past. But women never know when the curtain has fallen. They always want a sixth act, and as soon as the interest of the play is entirely over, they propose to continue it.
- Oscar Wilde
The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.
- Oscar Wilde
Nothing less than life in the steps of Christ is adequate to the human soul or the needs of our world. Any other offer fails to do justice to the drama of human redemption, deprives the hearer of life's greatest opportunity, and abandons this present life to the evil powers of the age.
- Dallas Willard
The orchestra had ceased and were now climbing onto their chairs, with their instruments. The floral offerings flew; the coffin teetered. Catch it! a voice shouted. They sprang forward, but the coffin crashed heavily to the floor, coming open. The corpse tumbled slowly and sedately out and came to rest with its face in the center of a wreath. Play something! the proprietor bawled, waving his arms; play! Play!
- William Faulkner