Climax Quotes

• Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment.

  Goswami Kriyananda

  Happiness, Laughter, Struggle

  77 Copy quote

• We want a story that starts out with an earthquake and works its way up to a climax.

  Samuel Goldwyn

  Earthquakes, Stories, Want

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  72 Copy quote

  Show source

• Silences have a climax, when you have got to speak.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Silence, Speak

  ELIZABETH BOWEN (1935). “The House in Paris”

  72 Copy quote

  Show source

• I like to compare the holiday season with the way a child listens to a favorite story. The pleasure is in the familiar way the story begins, the anticipation of familiar turns it takes, the familiar moments of suspense, and the familiar climax and ending.

  Fred Rogers

  Children, Holiday, Suspense

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

  71 Copy quote

  Show source

• Cornering perfectly is like bringing a woman to climax.

  Jackie Stewart

  Racing

  71 Copy quote

• Without going into too much detail, the end of my major action scene, after the climax of the scene, there was one little change that I suggested regarding the way things should turn out. It was in the detail of the tears of blood.

  Chiaki Kuriyama

  Blood, Tears, Details

  62 Copy quote

• But it is true that sometimes an enveloping darkness aids one to clearer vision; as in a panorama building, for example, where the obscurity about the entrance prepares one better for the climax, and gives the scene depicted a more real and vivid appearance.

  Pierre Loti

  Real, Giving, Darkness

  61 Copy quote

• The most emphatic place in a clause or sentence is the end. This is the climax; and, during the momentary pause that follows, that last word continues, as it were, to reverberate in the reader's mind. It has, in fact, the last word.

  F. L. Lucas

  Mind, Lasts, Facts

  F. L. Lucas (2012). “Style: The Art of Writing Well”, p.17, Harriman House Limited

  60 Copy quote

  Show source

• Dreading that climax of all human ills the inflammation of his weekly bills.

  Lord Byron

  Bills, Humans

  'Don Juan' (1819-24) canto 3, st. 35

  56 Copy quote

  Show source

• one of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty−one that everything afterward savors of anti−climax.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Time, Men, Excellence

  56 Copy quote

• I find that kid actors are great reminders of the simplicity of acting. As you get older, you can sometimes complicate things a little more. You can become too aware of, 'Okay, this is the scene emotionally. This is where we need to be. We've got the climax coming up.' You can start to analyze it too much.

  Hugh Jackman

  Kids, Simplicity, Acting

  "Hugh Jackman Interview REAL STEEL". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 4, 2011.

  59 Copy quote

  Show source

• Think 'Game of Thrones.' In the old days, this sort of show might be considered bad writing. It doesn't really seem to be moving toward a crisis or climax, it has no true protagonist, and it's structured less like a TV show or a movie than a soap opera.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Moving, Writing, Thinking

  "Living In The Present Is A Disorder". Interview with R.U. Sirius, www.wired.com. April 8, 2013.

  54 Copy quote

  Show source

• Atheism ... that bugbear of women and fools ... is the very top and perfection of free-thinking. It is the grand arcanum to which a true genius naturally riseth, by a certain climax or gradation of thought, and without which he can never possess his soul in absolute liberty and repose.

  George Berkeley

  Thinking, Perfection, Soul

  George Berkeley (1901). “The Works of George Berkeley ...: Philosophical works, 1732-33: Alciphron. The theory of vision”

  52 Copy quote

  Show source

• A story really isn't truly a story until it reaches its climax and conclusion.

  Ted Naifeh

  Stories, Conclusion

  "Ted Naifeh Brings COURTNEY CRUMRIN To Color, Ongoing Book". Interview with Lan Pitts, www.newsarama.com. January 18, 2012.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Plotting is like sex. Plotting is about desire and satisfaction, anticipation and release. You have to arouse your reader's desire to know what happens, to unravel the mystery, to see good triumph. You have to sustain it, keep it warm, feed it, just a little bit, not too much at a time, as your story goes on. That's called suspense. It can bring desire to a frenzy, in which case you are in a good position to bring off a wonderful climax.

  Colin Greenland

  Sex, Writing, Desire

  46 Copy quote

• Both God's love and God's wrath are ratcheted up in the move from the old covenant to the new, from the Old Testament to the New. These themes barrel along through redemptive history, unresolved, until they come to a resounding climax - in the cross.

  D. A. Carson

  Moving, Wrath, Covenant

  18 Copy quote

• Every picture should have a place you can go, a home, a climax.

  Jay Maisel

  Photography, Home, Should Have

  5 Copy quote

• The best indicator of a Chess Player's form is his ability to sense the Climax of the game.

  Boris Spassky

  Success, Player, Games

  19 Copy quote

• The climax of terror is reached when the police state begins to devour its own children, when yesterday's executioner becomes today's victim.

  Hannah Arendt

  Children, Yesterday, Police

  16 Copy quote

• I do not think that a man's rise to power is necessarily the climax of his life or that his loss of office should be equated with his fall.

  Isaac Deutscher

  Fall, Loss, Men

  Isaac Deutscher (2003). “The Prophet Armed: Trotsky, 1879-1921”, p.7, Verso

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• No, life cannot be understood flat on a page. It has to be lived; a person has to get out of his head, has to fall in love, has to memorize poems, has to jump off bridges into rivers, has to stand in an empty desert and whisper sonnets under his breath... We get one story, you and I, and one story alone. God has established the elements, the setting and the climax and resolution. It would be a crime not to venture out, wouldn't it?" -Donald Miller,Through Painted Deserts

  Donald Miller

  Falling In Love, Rivers, Bridges

  Donald Miller (2005). “Through Painted Deserts: Light, God, and Beauty on the Open Road”, p.11, Harper Collins

  15 Copy quote

  Show source

• You become more divine as you become more creative. All the religions of the world have said God is the creator. I don’t know whether he is the creator or not, but one thing I know: the more creative you become, the more godly you become. When your creativity comes to a climax, when your whole life becomes creative, you live in God. So he must be the creator because people who have been creative have been closest to him. Love what you do. Be meditative while you are doing it – whatsoever it is

  Rajneesh

  Spiritual, Creativity, Godly

  7 Copy quote

• Without the silence that follows the chants, you get only half the story. It's like the climax of a good story. The silence is there because it exists in the music. It just needs to be exposed and acknowledged.

  Deva Premal

  Silence, Needs, Stories

  15 Copy quote

• Man is a transitional animal. He is not the climax of creation

  Carl Sagan

  Animal, Men, Creation

  Carl Sagan (1973). “Carl Sagan's Cosmic Connection: An Extraterrestrial Perspective”, p.5, Cambridge University Press

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• Girls would say: "I have a boyfriend for that." So in addition to putting their pleasure literally into someone else's hands - an inept teenage boy - these are the same girls who say they do not climax with a partner. It's the opposite with boys; they say because they can do that themselves, girls should perform oral sex.

  Peggy Orenstein

  Girl, Sex, Teenage

  Source: www.macleans.ca

  13 Copy quote

  Show source