I try to stay away from tropes, or if there is a trope there, I ensure that it's cleverly written and isn't… — Adam Pearson Copy Share Image
An imaginative book renders us much more service at first, by stimulating us through its tropes, than afterward, when we arrive atthe… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
What I like about narrative in general is when there is some incongruity between the form and content. Let's say, mixing up… — Kelly Link Copy Share Image
After the horrific massacre Wednesday at the French weekly satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, perhaps the West will finally put away its legion… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
I think that young women and little girls need to see that they don't have to be the damsel in distress. They… — Octavia Spencer Copy Share Image
When people think girl adventurers, they tend to think of a spunky, plucky tom-boy with a chip on her shoulder. I'm not… — Ted Naifeh Copy Share Image
There are so many tropes in 'Sex Education'; don't get me wrong. There are lots of formulaic things, but the reason they're… — Emma Mackey Copy Share Image
If you want to appeal to people of different languages and cultures, you have to move toward tropes that are universally recognized.… — Tim Parks 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
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
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
“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
I always wanted to create a project that would allow me to think about cross cultural relationships and hybridization but did not… — Saya Woolfalk Copy Share Image
In movies and TV, we tend to fall into tropes about how characters might get out of problems. But when you look… — Matthew Weiner 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
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
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
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
“the love some girls have for other girls is so gentle & so soft & so fucking beautiful, & these girls deserve… — Amanda Lovelace 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
“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
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
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 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
