Northrop Frye Quotes

Science fiction is a mode of romance with a strong inherent tendency to myth.

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• I'm a strong woman.

  

  Sadie Frost
  • Strong
  • Woman
  • Strong Woman

• In bitter almond oil, like in a great number of other substances that previously had been counted among the 'aromatic compounds' on behalf of their strong smell, a derivative of benzene is present. The special properties of benzene and its derivatives are caused by the typical arrangement of their carbon atoms.

  

  Otto Wallach
  • Great
  • Strong
  • Present

• I see the Calvin Klein girl as strong, fun, and confident.

  

  Hanneli Mustaparta
  • Fun
  • Girl
  • Strong

• In the X-Men the women are so strong and sexy! We really kick some male butt!

  

  Halle Berry
  • Men
  • Women
  • Strong

• Republican values - strong families, faith, personal responsibility and freedom, among others - are not unique to specific subsets of the electorate. They are universal values, and it is Republicans' job to remind Americans of that fact.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Job
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  • Freedom

• It's a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.

  

  Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • People
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  • Strong

• What's really important? That I'm an individual, I guess. I am an individual - a strong one, too. I'm Natalie Cole. I gotta be me.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Important
  • Strong
  • Individual

• The Swedish language combines the strong manhood of the German with the delicate beauty of the Italian.

  

  Bayard Taylor
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  • Language
  • Beauty

• The Seventies seemed like this really open time. There were a lot of strong women characters deciding what kind of artists they wanted to be.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Time
  • Women
  • Strong

• I was able to promote a strong defense budget when it could have been cut a lot more severely.

  

  Vicky Hartzler
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  • More
  • Budget

• I was brought up Catholic, and I felt the power of art from a very young age - seeing the brutality of all those images of flayed apostles and tortured saints was a pretty strong introduction.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Up
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  • Power

• I'm shy, but sometimes my voice is so clear and strong.

  

  Hakeem Olajuwon
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  • Sometimes
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• To be a mother you must be strong. Even if you don't feel it, you have to pretend.

  

  Sade Adu
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  • Strong
  • Be Strong

• For Man's grim Justice goes its way,And will not swerve aside:It slays the weak, it slays the strong,It has a deadly stride:With iron heel it slays the strong,The monstrous parricide!

  

  Oscar Wilde
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  • Justice
  • Weak

• You know my eyes are not very strong. So every day to make them stronger I force myself to look at the sun. I find it very hard. But do you know what I find harder? That is to look into the blue of your eyes.

  

  Fidel Castro
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  • Eyes
  • Sun

• Loving movies myself, I know when I see a film with someone with a strong persona, it's hard to overlay another character on top of that.

  

  Jeff Bridges
  • Character
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• The demand for beef in Canada remains strong because I think people in America, in North America, know that we have a very strong food safety system and that our food is safe to eat.

  

  Ann Veneman
  • People
  • America
  • Strong

• If I had a religious belief, I would want it to be as strong as my belief in the theater.

  

  Marian Seldes
  • Strong
  • Religious

• To do all your own stunts, you have to be so strong.

  

  Margot Robbie
  • Strong

• The restoration comes not only from the landscape and air, though they play their significant part, but from the people. I feel a strong need to be in New Hampshire for as much of the summer as I can manage it.

  

  David Souter
  • People
  • Strong
  • Air

• I came from two harsh dictatorships, Nazi and Stalinist. I never thought of becoming a writer as such, yet in a lucid moment, I recognised what I had to do.

  

  Imre Kertesz
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  • Moment

• We completed and released 'No Code' in 1996. We began some off and on touring for that release.

  

  Jack Irons Pearl Jam
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  • Touring
  • Began

• Our U.S. audience is composed of globally-minded Americans, an elite category, the ones who do have passports, the decision-makers, senior ranks in the administration, senators on Capitol Hill.

  

  Lionel Barber
  • Decision
  • Senior

• Science fiction is a mode of romance with a strong inherent tendency to myth.

  

  Northrop Frye
  • Strong
  • Fiction
  • Romance