“Every light has a point where it is brightest and a point toward which it wanders to lose itself completely. It must be intercepted to fulfill its mission; it cannot function in a void. Light can go straight, penetrate and turn back, be reflected and deflected, gathered and spread, bent as by a soap bubble, made to sparkle and be blocked. Where it is no more is blackness, and where it begins is the core of its brightness. The journey of rays from that central core to the outposts of blackness is the adventure and drama of light.” MadeLightTurnsLosesJourneyAdventureDramaFunctionSpreadMissionsCoreWanderRaysVoidBubblesBentPenetrateSoapBrightnessBlacknessSparkleBlockedSoap Bubbles Book:Fun in a Chinese Laundry Source: Fun in a Chinese Laundry
“If one drops dead in the street, friends and loved ones are shocked, stricken, but a long lingering death loses all nobility and drama, while relatives and friends await the inevitable end in a succession of weary anti-climaxes.” IfsLongEndsDeathLosesStreetsDramaInevitableLoved OnesWearyShockedNobilitySuccessionLingeringClimaxRelatives And Friends Author:Alanna Knight
“It wasn't like, 'I'ma lose weight and start doing dramas.' I wanted to be healthier, and that was the impetus for wanting to lose weight - it's just about being healthy and feeling good.” FeelingsWantedLosesHealthyDramaWeightFeel GoodLose WeightImpetus Author:Jonah Hill
“A great many quite good plays could be performed with rhythmic howls in the place of dialogue and lose almost nothing by the change.” PlayLostChangeLosesDramaTheaterDialogueGreat MenHowl Book:The Strange Necessity: Essays and Reviews Source: The Strange Necessity: Essays and Reviews
“Jenny Simpson loses her shoe in the women's fifteen hundred, with a lap and a half to go, destroying her chances to repeat as world champion, and she gives the most gracious interview afterward about how she's had a wonderful career already. Great for Jenny Simpson. Bad for the sport! We need drama!” WorldNeedsGivingSportsLosesChanceHalfCareersWonderfulDramaHundredShoesChampionRepeatsInterviewsDestroyingFifteenLapGraciousWorld ChampionsJenny Author:Malcolm Gladwell
“Cafe De Flore speaks of love, its joys, its pains and its dramas - to love and to lose. This story upset me, I was upside-down, in the depths of myself.” StoriesPainJoySpeakLosesDramaDepthUpsetUpside DownCafes Author:Vanessa Paradis
“When we want to give expression to a dramatic situation in our lives, we tend to use metaphors of heaviness. We say that something has become a great burden to us. We either bear the burden or fail and go down with it, we struggle with it, win or lose. And Sabina - what had come over her? Nothing. She had left a man because she felt like leaving him. Had he persecuted her? Had he tried to take revenge on her? No. Her drama was a drama not of heaviness but of lightness. What fell to her lot was not the burden, but the unbearable lightness of being.” MenWantGivingUseWinningLeftFeltLosesSituationStruggleOur LivesFailingExpressionBearsDramaLeavingMetaphorBurdenRevengeDramaticUnbearablePersecutedLightnessWin Or LoseHeavinessUnbearable Lightness Of BeingUnbearable LightnessLeaving HimDramatic Situations Author:Milan Kundera
“To come to know that nothing is good, nothing is bad, is a turning point; it is a conversion. You start looking in; the outside reality loses meaning. The social reality is a fiction, a beautiful drama; you can participate in it, but then you don’t take it seriously. It is just a role to be played; play it as beautifully, as efficiently, as possible. But don’t take it seriously, it has nothing of the ultimate in it.” KnowsPlayRealityBeautifulSpiritualSocialLosesFictionRolesDramaUltimateConversionOpennessTurning Points Author:Rajneesh
“You are the spokesman for your character, you put on his case. Are you going to win or lose? There'll be no drama if you look like a loser at the outset.” IfsLooksCharacterWinningLosesActingCasesDramaLoserWin Or LoseNo Drama Author:Clive Swift