“It will be a very peculiar closing ceremony, full of art, melodrama and circus acrobats. The aim is to have a big party that everyone will enjoy.”
Daniele Finzi Pasca
“Contrary to the unsophisticated suggestions of melodrama, to rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as of the firm seat”
Jose Ortega y Gasset
“We didn't want to make things up. We didn't want to turn this experience into something that was melodrama ... to 'Hollywood' them up.”
David Madden
“The bosoms may not heave as much. There's a lot of hyperbole and there's a lot of melodrama. I think we're going to modify it for our audiences.”
Nina Tassler
“It always strikes me, and it is very peculiar, that when we see the image of indescribable and unutterable desolation - of loneliness, of poverty and misery, the end of all things, or their extreme - then rises in our mind the thought of God.”
Vincent van Gogh
“It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others, of measuring one's soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity.”
W. E. B. Du Bois
“Courage is a peculiar kind of fear.”
Charles Kennedy
