One of the tropes of our videos is that they were very rhythmic with clipped edits. — Stephen Mallinder Copy Share Image
I feel like we can prove in real time the old trope that comedy is tragedy plus time. — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
Some facts in life are immutable. One is, trust no-one who uses the word 'trope'. — Mark Gatiss Copy Share Image
Moving cities are a fairly hoary old sci-fi trope - I seem to recall they were always cropping up on 'Doctor Who'… — Philip Reeve Copy Share Image
I think the idea was to make a horror film that became a science-fiction film with a lot of melodramatic tropes. — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
The only way to real mature love is to get past the tropes of what we consider 'romance.' — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
Anywhere, anytime, I'd sacrifice the finest nuance for a laugh, the most elegant trope for a smile. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
It's fun playing the judge, because I grew up on all the courtroom stuff in movies and TV. So, you know all… — Doug Benson Copy Share Image
A lot of animated movies in the past have sort of relied on these archaic tropes on what the female characters in… — Stephanie Beatriz Copy Share Image
“Clichés are relatives of the fairy tale, and tropes aren’t bad; they go with the territory.” — Seanan McGuire Copy Share Image
I've read there is no such thing as a single tear, that old poetic trope. And perhaps there isn't, since hers was… — Elizabeth Kostova Copy Share Image
Originally the premise of killing Hitler was fueled by deep traumatic feelings of wishing and fantasizing that if only things had been… — Gavriel David Rosenfeld Copy Share Image
“the love some girls have for other girls is so gentle & so soft & so fucking beautiful, & these girls deserve… — Amanda Lovelace Copy Share Image
“If you want to successfully write to market, you need the right tropes, and you need to employ them like a master.… — Chris Fox Copy Share Image
The etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a brilliant picture. Language is fossil poetry. As the limestone of the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I never realized before this the emotional power of some really simple, corny tropes: people with top hats, people with batons, confetti… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
I love fantasy. I grew up reading fantasy. But, I wanted to put a somewhat different spin on it. The whole trope… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
I love playing into those horror tropes of 'don't go into the basement, you idiot.' I love that, so it's fun to… — Ross Duffer Copy Share Image
We still have our larynx, we still have our minds and we still have our consciousness. We still have this gift to… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
“When a hot trend turns into a sub-category, new strictures arise along with it. Tropes turn into shortcuts, character paradigms become cardboard… — Donald Maass Copy Share Image
I think we're always trying to avoid tropes. And I think that "Game of Thrones" has almost made killing people a cliche.… — Miles Millar Copy Share Image
The other thing is that it's really hard to separate out the harassment from everything we do. When we started creating Tropes,… — Anita Sarkeesian Copy Share Image
Oh, the foghorns... even the foghorns, they're all brass. It's something by Ingrid Marshal called Fog Tropes. It's not a sound effect.… — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
Self-reinvention is an essential trope of the American project, closely linked to another such trope: going on the lam. Both are regularly… — Luc Sante Copy Share Image
There's the trope about an impending "global-warming encyclical." The pope is preparing an encyclical on nature and the environment, including the human… — George Weigel Copy Share Image
A fashionable idea in technical circles is that quantity not only turns into quality at some extreme of scale, but also does… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
One of the things that bugs me about the Western Literary Tradition is that the conventions of narrative in particular seem to… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
“As I stated earlier, I do not believe there is anything inherently wrong with even the most overused elements of epic fantasy.… — Alec Austin Copy Share Image
Do proper homage to thine idol's eyes; But no too humbly, or she will despise Thee and thy suit, though told in… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
The TV Tropes QC page is every single idiotic comment from my forums distilled into one HTML document. — Jeph Jacques Copy Share Image
I'm so interested in taking tropes from other movies and putting them on something where it doesn't belong. — Greta Gerwig Copy Share Image
I should probably confess that I get bored easily, which explains my reluctance to work with formula, tropes, whatever. — Kit Reed Copy Share Image
I have a great amount of respect for the audience. They know narrative construct. They know all the tropes. — Paul Scheuring Copy Share Image
It's so rich as a trope - the whole idea of the road and it being in terms of language, being an… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
For me there is a poesis, a poetics, around the trope of the road that is embedded within many life experiences of… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
Normally there are three kinds of roles or tropes for us. We're either the villain because I have a disfigurement and I… — Adam Pearson Copy Share Image
It would seem as if the very language of our parlors would lose all its nerve and degenerate into palaver wholly, our… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“I stared at the list, as though willing the murderer's name to appear in red letters before my eyes. I felt I… — Ashley Weaver Copy Share Image
