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.
J. Donald Walters

Happiness, Happy, Struggle

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

Child, Story, Holiday

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

Story, Works, Earthquake

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

Great, Find, Sometimes

Silences have a climax, when you have got to speak.
Elizabeth Bowen

Speak, Silences

A show is like having a climax. It's like having an incredible, natural climax. And then suddenly it's all finished, and you don't know what to do next.
Rod Stewart

Show, Next, Natural

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

True, Real, Sometimes

When the songs pop out, that's like the climax of us building.
John Otto

Songs, Building, Pop

Cornering is like bringing a woman to climax.
Jackie Stewart

Woman, Bringing

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, End, Place

I really believe that what happens one day affects the next, and I think that came from that experience of learning that if I told the score inning by inning, play by play, it built up to its natural climax.
Doris Kearns Goodwin

Experience, Learning, Play

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

Change, End, After

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