Theme Quotes · Page 10

Consciousness - that, to me, is the theme of the modern novel.

— Justin Cartwright

The winds that blow our billions away return burdened with themes of scorn and dispraise.

— Garet Garrett

A genius doesn't adjust his treatment of a theme to a tyrant's taste

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

I love New York; I love the city. It's impossible. It's a theme park of a city, isn't it.

— Kit Harington

The first thing I learned was the theme from Peter Gunn.

— Pat Metheny

The inconsistency of genius is a consistent theme of creativity.

— Jonah Lehrer

The Insignificance of Man is a congenial theme; my own insignificance is a sore point.

— Mason Cooley

Any theology that is indifferent to the theme of liberation is not Christian theology.

— James H. Cone

I think that one of the compelling themes of fiction is this confrontation between good and evil.

— William Styron

I think the central theme about black society is that it has got elements of a defeated society

— Steven Biko

My work has no theme. I don't care if my photographs get published, and I have no interest in the news. But…

— Josef Koudelka

The theme of 'Charlotte's Web' is that a pig shall be saved, and I have an idea that somewhere deep inside me…

— E. B. White

There are three great themes in science in the twentieth century : the atom, the computer, and the gene.

— Harold E. Varmus

Claustrophobia is a theme that I feel is really rife in 'Sound of my Voice' and struggling to come up for air…

— Zal Batmanglij

The feeling of being an outsider, and the identity theme, are hardwired into me. If there's anything really autobiographical in my fiction,…

— Dan Chaon

Loneliness is definitely a theme running through the show, but I think there's hope in it also. Loki and Sylvie find each…

— Kate Herron

We'll continue to see more and more brands integrate social causes, charitable components and environmental issues as underlying themes to their campaigns…

— Amy Jo Martin

Travelling childhoods are a common theme among actors. Army kids, embassy kids, travelling salesmen, clergy. Thing is, you learn about behaviour, that…

— Julianne Moore

There is a single theme behind all our work-we must reduce population levels. Either governments do it our way, through nice clean…

— Thomas Ferguson

The whole theme of Interview with the Vampire was Louis's quest for meaning in a godless world. He searched to find the…

— Anne Rice

Before I start a project, I always ask myself the following question. Why is this book worth a year of my life?…

— David Morrell

From the glow of enthusiasm I let the melody escape. I pursue it. Breathless I catch up with it. It flies again,…

— Ludwig van Beethoven

Despite the variety my books reflect my, perhaps foolish, tendency to place artistic above financial concerns; of enjoying the more mature themes…

— Sean Michael Wilson

As far as I'm concerned, and this is a big theme of mine, I'm not interested in white people loving me. It's…

— John McWhorter

The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion... It is the man who…

— Alexander Graham Bell

“There's a theme that appears in much of your work," I say to Maurice on my last visit to Connecticut, "and I…

— Jonathan Cott

You can't write a book if you've never read a book. And if you've read five books and you try to write…

— Bun B

Not surprisingly, as the pioneer theme is presented, each goes back in memory to his or her own family line. There are…

— Thomas S. Monson

Years ago I was in a band called Two Lane Blacktop - we deliberately named ourselves after the 'Two-Lane Blacktop' movie, 'cuz…

— Ladyhawke

And more than once in the course of time, the same theme reappears: among the mystics of the fifteenth century, it has…

— Michel Foucault

One must be wary of the view that these loose and diverse coalitions represent a new form of globalized participatory democracy. The…

— Sylvia Ostry

My needs were simple I didn't bother much with themes or felicitous phrases and skipped fine descriptions of weather, landscapes and interiors.…

— Ian Mcewan

Demonic figures and occult themes have disappeared from modern magic.

— David Copperfield

A theme of digital success is keeping it simple.

— Walter Isaacson

A very powerful theme in fiction is that of loss.

— Alexander McCall Smith

There are millions and billions of atoms of memory of all kinds of musical themes in me.

— Erykah Badu

I've always thought abstractly - through theme and variations rather than narrative.

— Robert Wilson

Africa, your sufferings have been the theme that has arrested & engaged my heart.

— William Wilberforce

The theme of 'Bombay' will make you fall in love with it again and again.

— Karthi

A dream of mine is to write a 'Bond' theme tune.

— Jorja Smith