Tropes Quotes

17 quotes by 17 authors

To call ourselves a Microcosme, or little world, I thought it onely a pleasant trope of Rhetorick, till my neare judgement and second thoughts told… — Thomas Browne
Anywhere, anytime, I'd sacrifice the finest nuance for a laugh, the most elegant trope for a smile. — Edward Abbey
After the horrific massacre Wednesday at the French weekly satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, perhaps the West will finally put away its legion of useless tropes… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali
A fashionable idea in technical circles is that quantity not only turns into quality at some extreme of scale, but also does so according to… — Jaron Lanier
I just watched so many Westerns as a kid that you end up using archetypes and sort of tropes of that genre, because there's a… — Gore Verbinski
Some facts in life are immutable. One is, trust no-one who uses the word 'trope'. — Mark Gatiss
My novels tend to come about from a fusion of two big ideas, creating a critical mass that then fissions, throwing off hundreds of other… — Will Self
The only way to real mature love is to get past the tropes of what we consider 'romance.' — Joss Whedon
I have written it before and am not ashamed to write it again. Without Wodehouse I am not sure that I would be a tenth… — Stephen Fry
I've read there is no such thing as a single tear, that old poetic trope. And perhaps there isn't, since hers was simply a companion… — Elizabeth Kostova
In movies and TV, we tend to fall into tropes about how characters might get out of problems. But when you look at real life,… — Matthew Weiner
Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the schemes and tropes of classical rhetoric: parallelism, antithesis, epistrophe,… — P.J. O'Rourke
The stories about epidemics that are told in the American press - their plots and tropes - date to the nineteen-twenties, when modern research science,… — Jill Lepore
I never realized before this the emotional power of some really simple, corny tropes: people with top hats, people with batons, confetti going off, how… — Ira Glass
One of the things that make Liars so fascinating after five albums, each one so completely different from the others, is that even though they… — Rob Sheffield
I should probably confess that I get bored easily, which explains my reluctance to work with formula, tropes, whatever. — Kit Reed
Took the niggas out I was out on the porch with. To Saint Tropes to race them in Audis and Porsches. — Wiz Khalifa

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