Tv Tropes Quotes

#1. The TV Tropes QC page is every single idiotic comment from my forums distilled into one HTML document.

Jeph Jacques

#2. Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.

Barbara Kingsolver

#3. I can play any instrument if you give me 20 minutes.

Brittany Murphy

#4. Get to work because Mother Earth needs you right now.

Doreen Virtue

#5. You can't forget about luck. There is nothing in life that says if you're great and unique that you're going to have success financially.

Chris Metzler

#6. 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, you realize that there is a lot of drama of not being able to get out of the problems.

Matthew Weiner

#7. Time was the invention of men who would confine the ocean and bottle the wind.
Eternity is too short to fulfill the promise of love my sould holds for you.

Kassandra Sims

#8. By patriotism is meant, not only spontaneous, instinctive love for one's own nation, and preference for it above all other nations, but also the belief that such love and preference are good and useful.

Leo Tolstoy

#9. The nice thing about 'Futurama' for me personally was that it was a way to honor some of the traditional ideas in literary science fiction, not so much movie or television science fiction - although we have that too, obviously. Our situation, a workplace comedy, led to all sorts of stuff.

Matt Groening

#10. Abyss-mongering makes professors and poets feel daring.

Mason Cooley

#11. It is a strange anomaly that men could be careful to insure their houses, their ships, their merchandise, and yet neglect to insure their lives - surely the most important of all to their families, and more subject to loss.

Benjamin Franklin

#12. You lead by fear or you lead by example. We were being led by fear.

Stephen E. Ambrose

#13. Anger is the fluid love bleeds when cut.

C.S. Lewis

#14. There are certain people within the new government who have a slightly disturbing tendency toward authoritarianism, but there are so many checks and balances that in that way their noises are just noises.

Jonathan Shapiro

#15. The reason men don't know the law of life is because they're afraid to look Eternity in the face.

Erle Stanley Gardner