Subtextual Quotes

#1. There is no other genre that deals with America better, in a subtextual way, than the Westerns being made in the different decades. The '50s Westerns very much put forth an Eisenhower idea of America, whereas the Westerns of the '70s were very cynical about America.

Quentin Tarantino

#2. The thread of will-they-or-won't-they was the real driver of every word and glance and shift of body.
So ... this was a date, Blay thought. A subtextual negotiation slipcovered in talk of books read and music enjoyed.

J.R. Ward

#3. I hate even the idea of a synopsis. When stories are really working, when you're providing subtextual exploration and things that are deeply layered, you're obligated to not say things out loud.

Shane Carruth

#4. When you are writing literary writing, you are communicating something subtextual with emotions and poetry. The prose has to have a voice; it's not just typing. It takes a while to get that voice.

Joyce Carol Oates

#5. The great floodgates of the wonder-world swung open ...

Herman Melville

#6. Tis all in vain to keep a constant pother
About one vice and fall into another.

Alexander Pope

#7. You made a lifetime commitment before God and the world. A silly thing like a divorce doesn't reverse it.

Kellyn Roth

#8. No matter what they tell you, no matter what they do, no matter what they teach you, what you believe is true.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

#9. I'm a woman for all seasons. I mix 'n' match, do designer and high street - keep all my good pieces. I design all my evening and cocktail dresses most of the time as I dislike what is out there.

Joan Collins

#10. If you say that there was no first cause (a Creator), then you are stuck with the unscientific and thoughtless belief that nothing created everything. So, what is it that you believe? Is it that something created everything? Then you are not an atheist, because you believe in a Creator.

Ray Comfort

#11. Now on 'Bachelor Pad' it is true colors - no best foot forward anymore, everybody is really themselves.

Jake Pavelka

#12. Samia, it appeared, had become one of those desis who drink Pepsi in Pakistan and lassi in London.

Kamila Shamsie

#13. Holiness is not the luxury of a few people, but a simple duty for you and me.

Mother Teresa

#14. Spies are wise. Spies are strong. But, most of all, spies are patient.

Ally Carter

#15. New York City is my playground.

Bethenny Frankel

#16. My years on 'SNL' had reconfirmed that what I do best is play for a sort of edgy comedy.

Paul Shaffer

#17. You know, I'm not saying, 'Oh, because I play a good guy on TV, I need to suddenly be villainous in a movie.' I look at it more like: does this role has a kind of urgency for me in terms of, 'Can I not say no to it for whatever reason?'

Josh Radnor

#18. I regard food as fuel. I am not a brunch person.

David Rubenstein