Climax Quotes
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What we want is a story that starts with an earthquake and works its way up to a climax.
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The climax of absurdity to which the art may be carried, when led away from nature by fashion, may be best seen in the works of Boucher... His landscape, of which he was evidently fond, is pastoral; and such pastorality! the pastoral of the Opera house.
john constable— Notes of Six Lectures on Landscape Painting (1836), from C.R. Leslie, Memoirs of the Life of John Constable (1843), p. 343
I have got the North Pole out of my system after twenty- three years of effort, hard work, disappointments, hardships, privations, more or less suffering, and some risks? The work is the finish, the cap and climax of nearly four hundred years of effort, loss of life, and expenditure of fortunes by the civilized nations of the world, and it has been accomplished in a way that is thoroughly American. I am content.
Robert Edwin Peary— 1909 Diary entry, Apr. Quoted inTheNorth Pole (published1910).
Meanwhile, among all its countless other effects upon human culture, Starglider had brought to its climax a process that was already well under way. It had put an end to the billions of the words of pious gibberish with which apparently intelligent men had addled their minds for centuries.
arthur c. clarke— Chapter 16 “Conversations with Starglider” (p. 96)
The First World War had begunimposed on the statesmen of Europe by railway timetables. It was an unexpected climax to the railway age.
— 1963 The FirstWorldWar, ch.1.
He had a startling genius, but somehow it did n't emerge;Always on the evolution of things that would n't evolve;Always verging toward some climax, but he never reached the verge;Always nearing the solution of some theme he could not solve.
sam walter foss— The Inventor, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
By reason of Arthur's position as its climax as well as of the long line of other traditional heroes, events and associations, and of its breadth of treatment, simplicity, intensity, enthusiasm, accord with the supernatural, vitality of imagination, elevation and sometimes nobility and religious feeling, the poem is the nearest thing we have to a traditional racial epic.
layamon— J. S. P. Tatlock The Legendary History of Britain (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1950) p. 485.
"Tonality itself - with its process of instilling expectations and subsequently withholding promised fulfillment until climax - is the principal musical means during the period from 1600 to 1900 for arousing and channeling desire."
susan mcclary— McClary, Susan (1991). Feminine Endings: Music, Gender, and Sexuality. Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press. ISBN 0816618984.
The First World War had begun – imposed on the statesmen of Europe by railway timetables. It was an unexpected climax to the railway age.
a. j. p. taylor— The First World War ([1963] 1970) p. 20
Psychic health depends on orgastic potency, i.e., upon the degree to which one can surrender to and experience the climax of excitation in the natural sexual act. It is founded upon the healthy character attitude of the individual's capacity for love. Psychic illnesses are the result of a disturbance of the natural capacity for love .
wilhelm reich— General Survey
"I think the climax of the book will be the execution of poor old Edgar Derby," I said. "The irony is so great. A whole city gets burned down, and thousands of people are killed. And then this one American foot soldier is arrested in the ruins for taking a teapot. And he's given a regular trial, and then he's shot by a firing squad."
— the wife of an old war buddy accusing the author, who is writing a book about the destruction by bombing of Dresden, Germany in World War II
Laughter is the climax in the tragedy of seeing, hearing and smelling self-consciously.
— Wyndham Lewis, in "Inferior Religions" (1917)
The First World War had begun – imposed on the statesmen of Europe by railway timetables. It was an unexpected climax to the railway age.
— A. J. P. Taylor, The First World War ([1963] 1970) p. 20
"Tonality itself with its process of instilling expectations and subsequently withholding promised fulfillment until climax is the principal musical means during the period from 1600 to 1900 for arousing and channeling desire."
— McClary, Susan (1991). Feminine Endings: Music, Gender, and Sexuality. Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press. ISBN 0816618984.
