Genre Of Quotes

#1. I think the genre of comics sometimes overtakes the medium, and people assume that they are kind of frivolous. If you have a good, strong story teller, they can be as affecting as any character in literature. Period.

Chip Kidd

#2. The true genre of the life is neither hagiography nor saga, but tragedy.

Alasdair MacIntyre

#3. We really invented the genre of tracing family trees and going back as far as we could on the paper trail. When the paper trail disappeared, we used DNA analysis. The technology was just being invented that allowed you to trace ancestry through DNA.

Henry Louis Gates

#4. My genre of music is very eclectic. I might play some Latin jazz, or just go into a spontaneous jazz thing. That's the thing about coming to one of my performances. Not every show is the same.

Sheila E.

#5. Star Wars, the original movie, was all the various old genre of pictures: the swashbucklers, the war movies, all those things were put n there in a different look.

Bruce Boxleitner

#6. To be able to explore the genre of the musical is nice. It was great to be able to sing professionally, for the first time, and dance, which was something that I did growing up, but I had not done for many, many years.

Penelope Cruz

#7. For me the genre of romance is about the characters. It's about following a journey between two people and watching them grow and develop and have their lives change for the better because of their presence in each other's world.

Samantha Young

#8. Obscure as still remains the origin of that 'genre' of romance to which the tales before us belong, there is little doubt that their models, if not their originals, were once extant at Constantinople.

Joseph Jacobs

#9. The town formerly known as St. Louis is now 'Defiance.' The scope of the show and game is going to be massive because you have the people who love the genre of gaming who love sci-fi; they're in bed together, normally.

Tony Curran

#10. The language of poetry is not stuck in place. Nothing can own language. I think, however, the genre of poetry itself is very feminine and motherly.

Kim Hyesoon

#11. Hardcore without punk isn't music, it's a genre of porn. And punk isn't a genre of music, it's a thought process.

Dominic Owen Mallary

#12. The error in the art-genre of Opera consists herein: a Means of expression (Music) has been made the end, while the End of expression (the Drama) has been made a means.

Richard Wagner

#13. The God Factor Saga is a complex blockbuster in genre of This Present Darkness meets Anne of Green Gables. This saga is a romantic, suspenseful, apocalyptic, and inspirational novel tucked into the stories of children who grow up to be men and women with Divine purpose.

J. Nell Brown

#14. The genre of fantasy is about magic and occult characters.

Shawn Ashmore

#15. There is a whole genre of funny travel writers - that's very popular. There's Bill Bryson and people who follow that route and sell travel writing through making people laugh. It's a very difficult group to take. The line between comedy and mockery is sometimes a bit thin.

John Gimlette

#16. In the old days, a TV sync was perceived as not so cool or whittling away at your indie cred. Now it's seen as much more of an opportunity than a sellout, as a way to find fans who wouldn't have ordinarily come across their genre of music.

Alexandra Patsavas

#17. Performance capture is a genre of acting which is not going to go away, it's going to proliferate more and more. I'm passionate about it, and I love it. It's the most liberating tool an actor has, because you are not limited by your own physicality, look, or color of your eyes.

Andy Serkis

#18. I think the act of lying can be separated from the genre of memoir. Though often times, people are unaware of their own subjectivity.

Rob Roberge

#19. Someone needs to buy a radio station, then play nothing but audio books, with a different genre of book played at set times. That way we can always have something new to read, no matter where we are.

Shana Chartier

#20. When I was younger I didn't really know what genre of music I'd want to do because I'd always done so many different types, so many impressions.

Ben Barnes

#21. What we've done is make the categories of science fiction and fantasy larger, freer, and more inclusive than any other genre of contemporary literature. We have room for everybody, and we are extraordinarily open to genuine experimentation.

Orson Scott Card

#22. I'm a big fan of certain new acts. I love any genre of music, and I think it's really great to see that there are new artists coming through. It's kinda funny to think that I'm like the old man on campus now. But I'm really happy for groups like One Direction. I think they're really good guys.

Joe Jonas

#23. My favorite genre of movies growing up was the romantic comedy.

Jennifer Finnigan

#24. What I love about Beyonce is she's not a slave to a genre of music.

Tessanne Chin

#25. Techno-shamanism is a sub-genre of science fiction that is not recognized. Ernest Hogan's "Smoking Mirror Blues" is a seminal work in techno-shamanism.

Frank S. Lechuga

#26. Music is a huge part of my life, I enjoy every genre of music from jazz to country, and I even get down with a bit of hip hop.

Nicole Richie

#27. I've never found kicks to the groin particularly funny, although recent work in the genre of the buddy movie suggests audience research must prove me wrong.

Roger Ebert

#28. I tend to watch things that aren't really the genre of my own work.

Jenny Slate

#29. To me, fantasy has always been the genre of escape, science fiction the genre of ideas. So if you can escape and have a little idea as well, maybe you have some kind of a cross-breed between the two.

Sheri S. Tepper

#30. The genre [of hard-partying girls] seems to have gone out of style - instead of young women who drink too much, it's young women who don't eat enough.

Amy Argetsinger

#31. My music library has about every genre of music possible. I've really gotten into Ray LaMontagne, He makes amazing music, so I listen to him, and he's a great artist.

Jean-Luc Bilodeau

#32. Sometime female characters, especially in the genre of something that people consider rom-com, make mistakes in a cute way or they're a mess in a way that's palatable. I like that.

Greta Gerwig

#33. I created "Bouquets In Fantasia" when I was strictly painting in the genre of "Fantasy Flower Art".

Minnelli Lucy France

#34. In every genre of biblical literature and every stage of biblical history, God is seen pouring out his grace on his people for the sake of his glory among all peoples.

David Platt

#35. I have never believed that the critic is the rival of the poet, but I do believe that criticism is a genre of literature or it does not exist.

Harold Bloom

#36. Most of my fans, if you were to look on their iPods, you'd see every possible genre of music represented in some capacity.

Taylor Swift

#37. Aphorisms are essentially an aristocratic genre of writing. The aphorist does not argue or explain, he asserts; and implicit in his assertion is a conviction that he is wiser and more intelligent than his readers.

W. H. Auden

#38. The SF genre, of course, is really an organically evolved, marketplace-determined, idiosyncratic grab bag of themes and signifiers and characters and icons and gadgets, some of which hew to the realistic parameters and paradigms embraced by science, others of which partake more of fantasy and magic.

Paul Di Filippo

#39. I watched a lot of cooking shows when I was younger on PBS and TLC and those channels. It's a very cool genre of television.

Thu Tran

#40. The people who are writing online and the people in my genre of creative non-fiction exert a great deal more freedom that journalists are allowed to exert in their day-to-day work.

Lee Gutkind

#41. I wouldn't necessarily consider myself the typical sci-fi genre fan. I do have a lot of sci-fi shows that I enjoy, but I wouldn't call it my favorite genre of all.

Amanda Schull

#42. What I truly get excited about is not the genre of a movie or the size of a part - it's character. I like to find characters.

William Fichtner

#43. He had a voice that was the truth, raw and unfiltered. You can't get any realer, any more tortured or any more alive. No one can do what George Jones does, and that's why 50 years later, he still stands out as one of the greatest singers in any genre of all time.

Kenny Chesney

#44. I came late to the genre of folk music.

Tom Morello

#45. As far as politically how country music goes, it's true that it's regarded from a distance as a genre of music that at different times, the more right elements of the political spectrum have claimed for their own.

Mary Chapin Carpenter

#46. I'm completely open about the fact that I don't love every genre of metal. I like what I like. It's got to have some vocal quality and some semblance of melody.

Eddie Trunk

#47. Happiness is like a genre of music that nearly everyone knows how to dance to. Happiness has a very simple tempo, catchy phrasing, and memorable lyrics. It's the song at the wedding that makes everyone excited to run to the dance floor.

T.K. Coleman

#48. I love horses, and I love all of it. The sights and sounds and smells, the whole genre of Westerns - I love them. And I know they're rare for actors to get to do, and they're even more rare for women to get to do, so I really think I was drinking in the experience on so many levels.

Mary Steenburgen

#49. For me, writing a song, I sit down and the process doesn't really involve me thinking about the demographic of people I'm trying to hit or who I want to be able to relate to the song or what genre of music it falls under.

Taylor Swift

#50. I think the industry is oblivious to the fact that most people listen to all kinds of stuff. I personally don't know of anyone who listens to only one genre of music. It's vanity because no one does.

Keith Urban

#51. I've always thought of fantasy as a genre of best-case scenarios, and horror as a genre of worst-case scenarios.

Brian K. Vaughan

#52. I was a 12 year old kid in Northern Idaho listening to Billie Holiday and Lena Horne and Sarah Vaughan and Nat King Cole. This whole genre of music is a part of who I am.

Cheyenne Jackson

#53. There is no real kind of specific genre of cost of movies.

Joel Silver

#54. 'Days' has always been strong as an icon in TV history, and it's still going on strong and represents the genre of daytime drama so well. I'm proud to be a part of it.

Alison Sweeney

#55. Everyone who writes in the sub-genre of Victorian mystery stands in [Sir Arthur Conan] Doyle's shadow.

Will Thomas

#56. Americans have known about mounting inequality and king-sized Wall Street bonuses for years. But we also had an entire genre of journalism dedicated to brushing the problem off.

Thomas Frank

#57. I don't believe any genre of music can be unilaterally dismissed (aside from like, white-power music or something).

Patrick Stump

#58. The biggest question I have is if you're a rock singer or a rock 'n' roll band, or if you're a pop singer ... if you've made your way in another genre of music and now you want to make a country record, why? That's my question. Why?

Joe Nichols

#59. This genre of music seems to want to push people into a certain time slot, which is unfortunate.

Juice Newton

#60. I am singing a genre of music that people are very protective of. I am being compared to the greatest vocalist of all time.

Michael Buble

#61. The thriller is the most popular literary genre of the 20th century.

Ken Follett

#62. When this genre of music started in America, Metallica was up north in California, we were in Southern California, Anthrax was on the East Coast. We each developed our own metal music, and after 30 years, we're still playing our metal music.

Tom Araya

#63. You should never be afraid to be yourself, under any circumstances. The genre of cool is fleeting. What's cool today will not be cool a year from now. If you're yourself, you'll be at peace with yourself.

Jaleel White

#64. Country music is different because we [musicians] are all actually happy for each other. We're all friends. It's a little family. So if you don't win [an award], usually one of your friends does. So it's kind of a cool thing. I think it's the only genre of music to have that camaraderie.

Miranda Lambert

#65. Certainly, there is a tendency to lump women who write similar types of books together, and it's not just in crime, is it? Women's fiction is supposedly a whole genre of itself. There's no male equivalent.

Paula Hawkins

#66. Adaptability is crucial to working on Glee because every day is adapting to something. Because we're doing a different genre of music, doing a different type of scene with a different scene partner, recording and dance rehearsals ... no day is like another.

Kevin McHale

#67. My music is mostly for the music. And it gives the liberty to do anything which I want. And nobody limits me to one genre of music. But I learn from life and I try to give back to life, in a way, whether it's the thought of the song or whether it's the approach to the arrangement or anything.

A.R. Rahman

#68. I definitely gravitate towards quality genre projects and genre of any kind whether it's science fiction, horror or really anything. I'm just drawn to quality. I don't think 'Darkness Falls' is horror; there isn't any gore by any stretch of the imagination.

Emma Caulfield

#69. On the other side of that coin, and far outweighing it, is the fact that I've been able to use genre of Fantasy/Horror and express my opinion, talk a little about society, do a little bit of satire and that's been great, man. A lot of people don't have that platform.

George A. Romero

#70. The genre of science fiction is a fun house, an amusement park ride, but it's also a problem. The question that's always being indirectly asked is this: 'Just who do we think we are and, further, who do we want to be?'

Douglas Lain

#71. My feeling of the whole genre, of the terror tale, is this: The best thing that you can do for the readers in this field is to terrify them. It is something that is intellectual, it happens in your mind.

Stephen King

#72. Science fiction is the characteristic literary genre of the century. It is the genre that stands in opposition to literary modernism.

David G. Hartwell

#73. 'Midnight's Children' falls under the genre of post-colonial writing, and there is a range of writers like V.S. Naipaul and Salman who popularised it. 'Midnight's Children' was incredibly important in this canon.

Satya Bhabha

#74. When I was a kid, I was watching the movies my parents wanted to watch. I came from a working class family, not specifically educated, so we were watching popular movies. My dad liked cowboy movies, so we were watching cowboy movies. Some of them were amazing. It's a genre of movie I like very much.

Olivier Martinez

#75. No matter what genre of music you play when you rack up a couple years of experience, you have your own point of view no matter who it is that is coming in front of you whether it's a pop artist or a country artist. Whoever.

Harry Connick Jr.

#76. People get bored of hearing the same genre of music over and over again. Observe the current musical landscape and predict what "mood" people will be in next. Ask yourself what would be the most natural transition or reaction to the current genre. Then create it!

Wendy Starland

#77. The only genre of movie that I could see making that doesn't have anything magical or otherworldly about it would be a war film. I'm very interested in history, and a war film could be something that would lure me in.

Neill Blomkamp

#78. I'm really curious how the private listening - iPods, people listening on their phones - how that might eventual effect music. There'll be a whole genre of music that really works on a kind of one to one headphone or earbud level but doesn't really work when you play it in a room.

David Byrne

#79. It is not believed that a people capable of inventing the genre of "oral painting" could have spawned the viaduct killer, and in any case no ghetto resident is permitted access to any other area of the city. ("A Short Guide To The City")

Peter Straub

#80. I do believe there's been a lull of slasher films. There have been a few that I guess would fall under the genre of slasher. Like You're Next, which I thought was fun. There have been a few really good slasher films, but for the most part, that's sort of died away at the moment.

Kevin D. Williamson

#81. I don't want to be confined to one genre of writing because I don't read just one genre.

TaQuanda Taylor

#82. Filmmakers have to really find a unique take on something if they're going to explore an already-explored genre of movies.

Josh Trank

#83. Major differences in projects happen due to budget, director's styles, and genre of script, not industry.

Tena Desae

#84. I was always interested in trying to find how different genres would affect the lyrics that I'd written. Salsa is where most of my songs have been recorded, the genre of salsa. It's very frenetic, fast-paced. And I felt that the lyrics sometimes were being lost.

Ruben Blades

#85. Classical music is a genre of music. It's no more complex or less complex than pop music or R&B. The elitism is weird.

Theo Hutchcraft

#86. What I had to say was, in general, I'm not really a fan of any one genre of any kind of film.

Adam Arkin

#87. I was crazy about the song "Doot Doot," so I usually love this genre of weird, European electronic.

Margaret Cho

#88. They're always so serious, the orchestras, you know? It's always a fun contrast of that song and the genre of music. And me.

Idina Menzel

#89. The genre of television that I love and watch is so vast. There's not one type of thing I love.

Bridget Regan

#90. There is a sort of genre of optimistic science fiction that I like, and I don't think there is enough of. One of my favourites is a short story by Arthur C. Clarke, 'The City and the Stars.' It's set in this far future on Earth in this somewhat static society and trying to break out.

Peter Thiel

#91. We may need simple and heroic legends for that peculiar genre of literature known as the textbook. But historians must also labor to rescue human beings from their legends in science if only so that we may understand the process of scientific thought aright.

Stephen Jay Gould

#92. Comics are too big. You can't say any kind or genre of comics is better than another. You can say so subjectively. But to say it like it's objective is wrong. It's wrong morally, because it cuts out stuff that's good.

Ted Rall

#93. 14. Finally, the last characteristic of the menippea: its concern with current and topical issues. This is, in its own way, the "journalistic" genre of antiquity, acutely echoing the ideological issues of the day.

Mikhail Bakhtin

#94. In the concordance of Nicola Six's kisses there were many subheads and subsections, many genres and phyla - chapter and verse, cross-references, multiple citations.

Martin Amis

#95. In my books and in romance as a genre, there is a positive, uplifting feeling that leaves the reader with a sense of encouragement and hope for a brighter future - or a brighter present.

Debbie Macomber

#96. All fiction is a process of imagining: whatever you write, in whatever genre or medium, your task is to make things up convincingly and interestingly and new.

Neil Gaiman

#97. As a genre, the noir of post-World War II was based on characters who were weak or repellent, bound to let down us and themselves.

Steve Erickson

#98. By the time I was 10 or 12, I had discovered the lure of the romance genre - and the dusty copy of 'The Thorn Birds' on my parents' bookshelf.

Sarah MacLean

#99. My dream is to be Endora in Bewitched. That's the part I want to do. I want to do a fabulous old woman. I want to be Maggie Smith someday. Not exactly like her, but that genre. I like that kind of humor - sophisticated, vain stuff.

Jackee Harry

#100. 'True Detective' is a densely layered work with resonant details and symbology and rich characterization under the guise of one of the forms of this mystery genre. That's what we shoot for.

Nic Pizzolatto