Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion... the subject must…

Conducting! A subject, truly, concerning which much might be written, yet scarcely anything of real importance is to be found in books.

— Anton Seidl

If there's an enduring theme in my work, it's probably the effects of class on American life.

— Richard Russo

When you've written long enough, you see that there's a common theme in your work.

— Elizabeth Berg

If there's a theme in my work, it's that I like to focus on smart people who are facing oppression and who are fighting…

— Molly Crabapple

Love's a recurring theme through my work.

— Tracy Chapman

There is a single theme behind all our work-we must reduce population levels,

— Thomas Ferguson

If there's one theme in all my work, it's about authenticity and self-expression. It's the idea that some things are, in some real sense,…

— Bernard Williams

“Death is the expression of exhaustion, a solution arrived at rationally once one has known the deepest depths of tiredness.”

— Hui Wei

The downfall of civilized states tends to come not from the direct assaults of foes, but from internal decay combined with the consequences of…

— B. H. Liddell Hart

Everything that these folks are saying that they're trying to move away from, like comparison, perfectionism, judgement, and exhaustion as a status symbol -…

— Brené Brown

People would do well to ask themselves how many of their ambitions and aspirations derive from the type of economic system they inhabit and…

— Tony Benn

… but only because exhaustion is a life-sign; it is at least a form of being human.

— John Irving

“...and, without once looking back, walk down the road through the forest. If the Germans want to shoot me, let them. I am too…

— Audie Murphy

“Remember what I done for you here today,' he shouted and passed out.”

— Charlie Higson

“And though I feel an unfathomable exhaustion, I feel compelled to keep at it, as though to give up working would be to concede…

— Steven Laffoley