Listed below are quotes taken from the words of people that have no media directly connected to them.
Examples are listed in alphabetical order by last name.
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A–F
- Anonymous
- All Are Equal in Death
- All Deaths Final ("The Song of the Harp-Player")
- Author Filibuster
- Go and Sin No More
- Guns vs. Swords
- Impaled with Extreme Prejudice
- SoYouWantTo.Write A Good Summary
- I Surrender, Suckers
- Quieter Than Silence
- Short Cuts Make Long Delays
- Super Toughness
- There Are No Girls on the Internet
- True Art Is Incomprehensible
- Cecil Adams
- Joseph Addison
- Makoto Aida
- Robert Alberti & Bruce Fisher
- Marliece Andrada
- Maya Angelou
- Archilochus
- Dave Attell
- Matsuo Bashou
- Barnard Bee
- Brendan Behan
- Lloyd Bentsen
- Yogi Berra
- Sara Bickley
- Berke Breathed
- Andre Breton
- Surrealism (Les Champs magnétiques)
- Samuel Butler
- Edward Carpenter
- New Eden ("After Civilization")
- William Cassidy
- Richard Chamberlain
- Mark David Chapman
- Dave Chappelle
- Emma Coats
- Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth
- Butterfly of Death and Rebirth ("Sky Lotus")
- Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo ("Sky Lotus")
- Andy Collins
- Merian C. Cooper
- Dalai Lama XIV
- Robert Delaunay
- John Dewey
- Mike Ditka
- Paul Laurence Dunbar
- Roger Ebert
- Actor Allusion
- Adaptation Expansion
- All Girls Want Bad Boys
- Alpha Bitch
- Americathon
- An Inconvenient Truth
- Animation Age Ghetto
- Baraka
- Belle de Jour
- Based on an Advice Book
- Best Known for the Fanservice
- Broke the Rating Scale
- Carnival of Souls
- Cannot Tell a Joke
- The Chief's Daughter
- Christianity is Catholic
- Creepy Gas-Station Attendant
- Crosses the Line Twice
- Dead Horse Trope
- Defanged Horrors
- Departures
- The Devils
- The Double Life of Veronique
- Dutch Angle
- Ending Fatigue
- Evil Old Folks
- Exactly What It Says on the Tin
- Fallen Angels
- Le Film Artistique
- Floorboard Failure
- Gambit Roulette
- Genetic Memory
- Genre Deconstruction
- The Good Thief
- Gut Punch
- Harpo Does Something Funny
- Helena Bonham Carter
- Hou Hsiao-hsien
- I Take Offense to That Last One
- I Wish
-
Idiot Plot - Incredibly Conspicuous Drag
- It's Not Supposed to Win Oscars (invoked with Gene Siskel)
- Joe's Apartment
- Jungles Sound Like Kookaburras
- Keep It Foreign
- Kubrick Stare
- La Belle Noiseuse
- The Last Title
- Leno Device
- The Long Good Friday
- Lost in Translation (2003)
- Modesty Bedsheet
- The Monkees
- Murderer P.O.V.
- My Dinner with Andre
- The Natives Are Restless
- Nested Mouths
- Nicolas Cage
- No OSHA Compliance
- Oh Wait, This Is My Grocery List
- Older Than the Demographic
- Only a Flesh Wound
- The Other Sister
- Pearl Harbor
- Perma-Stubble
- Petulia
- Playing Against Type
- Posthumous Character
- Pragmatic Adaptation
- Pretty Maids All in a Row
- Review Ironic Echo
- Roger Rabbit Effect
- Roxanne
- Running Scared (2006)
- Shot for Shot Remake
- SoBadItsGood.Film
- Some Kind of Wonderful
- Spaghetti Western
- Stepford Consumer
- Strawman Has a Point
- Tarzan, the Ape Man (1981)
- Tears of the Sun
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
- Three Colors Trilogy
- Three Times
- Time Zones Do Not Exist
- Toplessness from the Back
- Trade Snark
- Trailer Joke Decay
- Trog
- Unexplained Accent
- Videogame Movies Suck
- Vixen! (1968)
- The Whales of August
- White Man's Burden
- William Powell
- Wish You Were Here (1987)
- Your Highness
- King Edward VIII
- Mitch Fatel
- W. C. Fields
- Smile Tropes (second quote)
- Dave Fischer
- Glen Foster
- Georges Franju
- Erich Fromm
- Paul Fussell
G–M
- John Gardner
- Bill Gates
- Jack Gilbert
- Samuel Goldwyn
- Colin Greenland
- Horace Greeley
- Rafael Guerra
- Jack Handey
- Daniel Handler
- T. Nielsen Hayden
- Heinrich Heine
- Adam Hills
- Heinrich Himmler
- Hippocrates
- The Japanese Emperor Hirohito
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
- Elbert Hubbard
- Steve Hughes
- Connor Jessup
- Penn Jillette
- Lynn Johnston
- John Paul Jones
- Alan King
- Robert Kirkman
- Erwin Knoll
- Viktor Korchnoi
- R. A. Lafferty
- Future Imperfect ("And Read the Flesh Between the Lines")
- Gary Larsen
- Mick LaSalle
- Harper Lee
- Robert E. Lee
- James Lileks
- Sean Lock
- D.A. Ellis Loew
- Vince Lombardi
- Richard Lovelace
- Loved I Not Honor More ("To Lucasta, Going to the Wars")
- Charles "Lucky" Luciano
- Niccolò Machiavelli
- Clyde Mandelin
- Kyle Martin
- Andrew Marvell
- Intelligence Tropes ("The Garden")
- Tropes of Innocence ("The Garden")
- Edgar Lee Masters
- Margaret Mead
- Lorenzo di Medici
- Alan Minter
- Wilson Mizner
- Vyacheslav Molotov
- Dwight L. Moody
N–S
- George Jean Nathan
- Martin Niemoeller
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- Above Good and Evil
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
- God is Dead
- The Hashshashin (On the Genealogy of Morals)
- He Who Fights Monsters
- Stealth Parody
- Straw Nihilist
- Vincent Peranio
- Louise Perry
- Carla Pestana
Presidents of the United States
- George Washington
- John Adams
- Thomas Jefferson
- Abraham Lincoln
- Ulysses S. Grant
- Rutherford B. Hayes
- Theodore Roosevelt
- Woodrow Wilson
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Harry S. Truman
- John F. Kennedy
- Richard Nixon
- Gerald Ford
- Ronald Reagan
- George W. Bush
- Thomas Pynchon
- Billy Queen
- Samuel Richardson
- Knute Rockne
- Andy Rooney
- Leo Rosten
- Karl Rove
- Edward Said
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
- Yves Saint-Laurent
- George Santayana
- Bob Schieffer
- Arnold Schönberg
- Seanbaby
- Boldly Coming
- Breakaway Advertisement
- Care-Bear Stare
- Chekhov's Skill
- Face Doodling
- Fat Comic Relief
- I Believe I Can Fly
- Kid Sidekick
- A Man Is Always Eager
- Overreacting Airport Security
- Punch! Punch! Punch! Uh Oh...
- Right-Hand Attack Dog
- Speed Blitz
- Stealthy Colossus
- Storyboarding the Apocalypse
- Surveillance as the Plot Demands
- Weaponized Headgear
- Wild Samoan
- Nick Setchfield
- Melinda Shankar
- Bill Shankly
- Stephen Lea Sheppard
- Tom Siddell
- Sir Philip Sidney
- Lore Sjöberg
- Chest Monster
- Destined Bystander
- False Dichotomy
- Food Pills
- Hydra Problem
- Infinity +1 Sword
- Ironic Hell
- Jump Physics
- Late to the Punchline
- Luckily, My Powers Will Protect Me
- Parent Service
- Planet Eater
- Precision-Guided Boomerang
- The Scrappy
- Speech-Impaired Animal
- Time Police
- Trick Arrow
- Wolverine Publicity
- Frank Stella
- Bruce Sterling
- James H. Strobridge
- Thomas Szasz
T–Z
- Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord
- Sara Teasdale
- Humanity's Wake ("There Will Come Soft Rains")
- Reclaimed by Nature ("There Will Come Soft Rains")
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
- Mer Tropes ("The Mermaid")
- Saved by the Church Bell ("In Memoriam AHH")
- Mother Teresa
- Tertullian
- Martin Thomas
- Linus Torvalds
- Mark Twain
- Accidental Discovery
- Breaking Point Swearing
- Costume Tropes
- Cry for the Devil
- Generation Xerox
- Goodness Tropes
- A Hell of a Time
- Insignificant Little Blue Planet
- A Lesson Learned Too Well
- Mainstream Obscurity
- SelfDemonstrating.Malaproper
- Malicious Slander
- Outgrown Such Silly Superstitions
- The Revolution Will Not Be Vilified
- Seasonal Baggage
- John Vachon
- Jessica Valenti
- Voltaire
- Binyavanga Wainaina
- Bill Watterson
- Rebecca West
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
- Gan Ying
- Xiang Yu
- Lin Yutang
