Quotes About Trope

#1. I don't think it is as a trope or as something in our psyches. There's very little wilderness out there but there is wild mind, and the Wild mind that actually, as Gary Snyder says, wants to take care of things. There's an elegant quality to the wild mind.

Anne Waldman

#2. Anywhere, anytime, I'd sacrifice the finest nuance for a laugh, the most elegant trope for a smile.

Edward Abbey

#3. For me there is a poesis, a poetics, around the trope of the road that is embedded within many life experiences of the people I've been close to.

Anne Waldman

#4. In mainstream literature, a trope is a figure of speech: metaphor, simile, irony, or the like. Words used other than literally. In SF, a trope - at least as I understand the usage - is more: science used other than literally.

Edward M. Lerner

#5. 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 to my own.

Elizabeth Kostova

#6. Hemingway's minimalism is based on the psychological mechanics of repression. An echo of his approach can be detected in a favorite trope of 1980s minimalists: a pattern of reference to dire secrets and hidden wounds these authors didn't realize they were supposed to have imagined.

Madison Smartt Bell

#7. Moving cities are a fairly hoary old sci-fi trope - I seem to recall they were always cropping up on 'Doctor Who' when I was young, though I may be misremembering.

Philip Reeve

#8. Just bear a passing resemblance to a fictional romantic trope I like and I will love you forever. We're all just trying to find the Mark Darcy of our workplace, aren't we?

Mindy Kaling

#9. The most conventional romantic trope of all is that you put lovers under extreme pressure, where they have to make decisions that illuminate aspects of that bond.

Lenny Abrahamson

#10. The Collector [John Fowles book] does such a good job of capturing the mindset of a capturer, and also that's become a banal trope of every second crime novel: the weirdo, fetishistic watcher/stalker/kidnapper/kidnapper of women or children.

Emma Donoghue

#11. There is something universally chilling about a new plot. And I could see how my boy needed time and space for a story to bloom in his mind, because at any age what comes before sight is a conjuring. A trope, which is just a way to believe.

Chang-rae Lee

#12. Some facts in life are immutable. One is, trust no-one who uses the word 'trope'.

Mark Gatiss

#13. Expatriation, like love, is not only a condition that devastates and reconfigures the self; it is, like love, a trope, a figure with which we try to explain, try to narrate profound psychological disruptions in terms of very measurable entities: a person, a place, an event, a moment, etc.

Andre Aciman

#14. I like animal sidekicks. They seem to be a pretty cool trope of post-apocalyptic fiction - just because if you're going to have this lone protagonist, they're going to need someone to talk to. Dogs are overused, and cats are dumb. So that leaves monkeys.

Brian K. Vaughan

#15. It's so rich as a trope - the whole idea of the road and it being in terms of language, being an active experience.

Anne Waldman

#16. I try not to think about the trope or whether or not my books are like 'Fifty' or 'Crossfire' or any other series.

Julie Kenner

#17. Huysmans takes the old trope of moon-as-woman and replaces its romantic connotations with decadent ones: the moon here is woman as clamorous lunatic, as convulsive epileptic.

Charles Bernheimer

#18. apathy is a disease and some days i long for it.

Zoe Trope

#19. I like the fact that we're stripping the icons away. They're the WikiLeaks for the age that we're revealing, with the transparency of the characters. We're unearthing the truth beyond or underneath the myth. I love that aspect.

Joseph Fiennes

#20. I feel like she could drown me in a spoonful of water or crush me with her fingernail clippings. I realize I have no chance.

Zoe Trope

#21. Your heart's Brain has independent thought which can create a life of tranquil bliss.

Steven Redhead

#22. Jack Stepney had once said of Miss Van Osburgh that she was as reliable as roast mutton. His own taste was in the line of less solid and more highly-seasoned diet; but hunger makes any fare palatable, and there had been times when Mr. Stepney had been reduced to a crust.

Edith Wharton

#23. The perfumes of lords and ladies tickled at my nose: lavender and orange oil. On the road, shit has the decency to stink.

Mark Lawrence

#24. I never think Im going to make a double play in the outfield. But I did it.

Alfonso Soriano

#25. If you take off your clothes, you will find more clothes.

Zoe Trope

#26. They're gonna chick you, Jurker! Do you want to get chicked?" (Dusty had coined the term when he was in high school. It's now part of the ultra-running lexicon). I

Scott Jurek

#27. I'm not worried about the future as much as I'm worried about the past. About keeping my memories real and not sacrificing them to match the present.

Zoe Trope

#28. I still feel like I'm jumping on an elevator
weightless and pulled down at the same time.

Zoe Trope

#29. A taste of righteousness can be easily perverted into an overweening sense of self-righteousness and judgmentalism.

R. Kent Hughes

#30. Who can you surprise with your service this week? - Janet Graham

Gary Chapman

#31. Instead of eating too much, I'm thinking too much and I need to throw up some of these thoughts before something vile happens.

Zoe Trope

#32. But I am not political in the current events sense, and I have never wanted anyone to read my poetry that way.

Diane Wakoski

#33. Now, the mistakes that I made with my other two sons, Penny and Kobe, I won't make with D-Wade. We can't let them break us up and we can't break each other up.

Shaquille O'Neal

#34. I think the only necessary conclusion is that we are too beautiful, because being not beautiful at all just doesn't make sense.

Zoe Trope

#35. We idolized the Beatles, except for those of us who idolized the Rolling Stones, who in those days still had many of their original teeth.

Dave Barry

#36. Money pads the edges of things.

E. M. Forster

#37. The Lord did strengthen them that they could bear up their burdens with ease, and they did submit cheerfully and with patience to all the will of the Lord.

Joseph Smith Jr.

#38. Besides, I always feel safer when I've got words against my heart.

Zoe Trope

#39. Sometimes every word i write is 'love' but the letters are rearranged, the sounds are different. all the words are red.

Zoe Trope

#40. We can't afford to deny our past in a bid to be empowered. But what we can do is contextualize the past.

David Oyelowo

#41. Having your health is having everything in life.

Brock Lesnar