Railing and praising were his usual themes; and both showed his judgment in extremes. Either over violent or over civil, so everyone… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
My mother and I parting company at four years old is a recurring theme; although it's not symbolically necessarily present, it's present… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
I was loosely aware that most of my characters were fundamentally selfish people, but I didn't intentionally make that a theme. — Liza Campbell Copy Share Image
I know how much embarrassment hurts, and I love it as a theme because you can keep digging a hole. It's just… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
We like to have a point of view in our stories, not an obvious moral, but a worthwhile theme. ... All we… — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
We can ask for a dream of guidance on any issue that is facing us, and when we're lucky the dream can… — Robert Moss Copy Share Image
The world is full of abandoned meanings. In the commonplace I find unexpected themes and intensities. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
I write to try to find out who I am. One of my main themes is manliness. I think I'm trying to… — Ernest Gaines Copy Share Image
If prayer stands as the place where God and human beings meet, then I must learn about prayer. Most of my struggles… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
One remarkable feature of the devotional masters is the incredible sense of uniform witness in the midst of such diverse personalities... and… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
I mean these are universal themes. I try not to preach, for sure. I don't enjoy movies that preach - so I… — Michael Landon, Jr Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
And before long there will be no more milk in bottles delivered to the doorstep or sleepy rural pubs, and the countryside… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Everybody has a theme. You talk to somebody awhile, and you realize they have one particular thing that rules them. The best… — Meg Wolitzer Copy Share Image
I really am just trying to tell stories. But stories are often grounded in larger events and themes. They don't have to… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
The thing that I think a director has to have in order to make a movie really work, and to certainly make… — George Nolfi Copy Share Image
For not by art does the poet sing, but by power divine. Had he learned by rules of art, he would have… — Plato Copy Share Image
The weirdest thing I've been fascinated with nowadays is the new contemporary country music, which to me sounds like very strange '70s… — Ryan Adams Copy Share Image
Here is how I work: when I think that a film needs to have a principal theme, I search for a melody.… — Michel Legrand Copy Share Image
I tried to think about these two issues very freely. With sex, I think I can manage with that. With death, this… — Pedro Almodovar Copy Share Image
We take it for granted that Jesus was not interested in political life: his mission was purely religious. Indeed we have witnessed… — Gustavo Gutiérrez Copy Share Image
I have an older sister and my mom would dress us up identically, so in all of our pictures, we're in these… — Analeigh Tipton Copy Share Image
There is no reason why challenging themes and engaging stories have to be mutually exclusive - in fact, each can fuel the… — Edward Zwick Copy Share Image
You know, usually with movies there are periods, dark areas, where I might not be getting what I wanted out of a… — Trevor Rabin Copy Share Image
Summer is the sweet spot of the movie-going season -- and it's also peak season for Six Flags theme parks. — Mark Shapiro Copy Share Image
The recurring theme which predisposes people to depression is rejection and lack of self-esteem. — Richard Winters Copy Share Image
It's an indication of how cynical our society has become that any kind of love story with a sad theme is automatically… — Winona Ryder Copy Share Image
The New Testament picks up from the Old the theme that God intends, in the end, to put the whole creation to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Men treat God's sovereignty as a theme for controversy, but in Scripture it is matter for worship. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The theme of sisters - of missing sisters, of needing sisters, the special love that sisters share or the antagonism sisters share… — Miriam Toews Copy Share Image
Feminist art... will take the great human themes – love, death, heroism, suffering, history itself – and render them fully human. — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
I love big ensemble shows where there are a lot of things going on and you have to really pay attention because… — Janina Gavankar Copy Share Image
Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion... the subject must be something you truly love or truly hate. — Dorothea Lange Copy Share Image
Superb historical romance, with a spiritual theme woven seamlessly throughout. I much enjoyed The Covered Deep and look forward to more from… — James Scott Bell Copy Share Image
Smash creative blocks. Change the problem or sneak up on it from a different direction. Try something fresh - a new way… — Nita Leland Copy Share Image
Let it be understood, in the first place, that a science fiction story must be an exposition of a scientific theme and… — Hugo Gernsback Copy Share Image
We used the Western style to express our own themes and stories. But don't forget that our heritage includes The Thousand and… — Naguib Mahfouz Copy Share Image
The theme for me is love and the lack of it. We all want that and we don't know how to get… — Ryan Gosling Copy Share Image
