Theme Quotes

Obviously death is a theme I'm fascinated by.

— Alan Ball

Small minds can never handle great themes.

— St. Jerome

For me, story and theme are universal.

— Bear McCreary

Love's a recurring theme through my work.

— Tracy Chapman

Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini

— Sergei Rachmaninoff

What can I but enumerate old themes?

— William Butler Yeats

Out, damned spot! out, I say!

— William Shakespeare

I travel for theme parks.

— Chad Gilbert

I feel like every album I've done kind of had a theme.

— Trace Cyrus

I've always been interested in themes of memory, paranoia, and revenge.

— Jonathan Nolan

I never have a clear goal or a theme when it comes to writing an album.

— Adam Granduciel

We must have a theme, a goal, a purpose in our lives.

— Mary Kay Ash

Love is the key-note of the universe-- The theme, the melody.

— Henry Abbey

I think the theme of the album probably was just that it was our first record.

— Ann Wilson

I like the beauty of Faulkner's poetry. But I don't like his themes, not at all.

— Manuel Puig

Secrets are very intriguing - I always think that's an interesting theme.

— Sara Shepard

Reviewer: 'One of your themes was very similar to one of Beethoven's!' Brahms replied, 'Of course it is. Everyone steals - the…

— Johannes Brahms

I did a cover of the James Bond theme, and I felt like such a fraud, because the original is so good.

— Moby

Just because I don't sing about the normal country themes doesn't mean my songs aren't country. I'd rather sing about having fun.

— Kenny Chesney

Starting clean is a theme for me - starting fresh and understanding what's important about life.

— Chyler Leigh

I love listening to songs that are from the heart and that touch the heart. So, love is the preferred theme for…

— Kailash Kher

Of those two [Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump], I do think that the - right now, at least in my mind, the…

— David Brooks

I was wildly out of style when that television theme song suddenly pushed its way onto the Top Ten. It was certainly…

— John Sebastian

For the Republican Convention, I think of Trump's speech and sort of the darkness, the fear of crime, the need for a…

— David Brooks

The themes in my books, like in life, are about grace and redemption and you never know when they're going to show…

— Kate DiCamillo

Maybe that's when bad scripts are written, when you choose the theme first. I consider that I've something to say when I've…

— Russell T Davies

An Associated Press report called the President's antics 'Bible-thumping politics.' Clinton's message was decidedly religious and partisan, as was Governor's Cuomo's remarks…

— Gary DeMar

And before long there will be no more milk in bottles delivered to the doorstep or sleepy rural pubs, and the countryside…

— Bill Bryson

I wanted to make a film about anorexia. I thought about it for a long time, but then gave up on this…

— Malgorzata Szumowska

In economics, we borrowed from the Bourbons; in foreign policy, we drew on themes fashioned by the nomad warriors of the Eurasian…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

At the time the world was all upside down. The American people were beginning to move around a lot. The old hometown…

— John Gould

Everybody has a theme. You talk to somebody awhile, and you realize they have one particular thing that rules them. The best…

— Meg Wolitzer

We talk eloquently about our commitment to the principles of Christianity, and yet our lives are saturated with the practices of paganism.…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

A red traffic light loomed, and Cecilia slammed her foot on the brake. The fact that Polly no longer wanted a pirate…

— Liane Moriarty

There is a sort of myth of History that philosophers have… History for philosophers is some sort of great, vast continuity in…

— Michel Foucault

There is this persistent theme in all of these notions that death is made more easy, whatever that means, if you've learned…

— Terence McKenna

Want something else more than success. Success is a lovely thing, but your desire to say something, your worth, and your identity…

— Veronica Roth

The trees change their voices in autumn as well as their shapes. No longer do they whisper to one another in muffled…

— Patience Strong

There's probably more of a struggle to get material and narratives published that really speak to black culture. And that has a…

— Jerry Pinkney

First, my frame of reference for the Britten opera shifted. I'd always thought of Britten's approach in Death in Venice as another…

— Philip Kitcher