Theme Quotes · Page 18

The Puritans' sense of priorities in life was one of their greatest strengths. Putting God first and valuing everything else in relation…

— Leland Ryken

The idea was I'd never amount to anything in music, The theme there was that I was talented, but I wouldn't work…

— Mose Allison

Mentalist is the technical term for what I do and it covers everything from psychic medium through Uri Geller, through to magicians…

— Derren Brown

If you have the temerity to try to dramatize a theme that involves any particular social controversy currently extant. . . then…

— Rod Serling

I try to construct each of my novels around one central theme - core tensions shared by the characters.

— Chris Pavone

The theme of 'A Christmas Story' is that you can count on Christmas - that everybody has a Christmas story. Everybody has…

— Marc Platt

Of course, we talked about Westerns we like with [James Ransone in Valley of Violence] , but it was always thematically in…

— Ti West

Incorporating travel, elements from different cultures and locales, is a great way to establish the overall tone and theme for a soiree.

— Jeremiah Brent

There's a lot of 'Batman' movies. This element that is 'Batman,' that remains unchanged. However, the theme around him is constantly changing.…

— Hideo Kojima

When I'm thinking about themes for Elrond, Elendil, Isildur, these are characters that I think all fans have an idea where they're…

— Bear McCreary

Children became an obsessive theme in Victorian culture at the same time that they were being exploited as never before. As the…

— C. Sommerville

What do we really want to say to the world? Three main themes. The inability to find completion in our modern society,…

— Jon Foreman

If there’s one theme that connects all my work, I think it’s that of land-lessness; how land makes people into who they…

— Larry Towell

Fiction has subversive potential. People let it into their minds, like the Trojan Horse. They don't know what's inside. You hook them…

— Randy Alcorn

I often do that with characters, going back to my bloody drama-school days, in terms of equating them with creatures. And it's…

— David Thewlis

The life's work of Walt Disney and Ray Kroc had come full-circle, uniting in perfect synergy. McDonald's began to sell its hamburgers…

— Eric Schlosser

Language is a theme in the whole book, no? I mean it ends with the title poem about words are all we…

— Gregory Orr

My opening line to my students, and a recurring theme in my classes, was that the big design problem isn't designing a…

— Richard Saul Wurman

So much of the writing is not conscious, in the sense that it's not calculated. I remember in film school we had…

— Don Hertzfeldt

As well as Japanese animation, technology has a huge influence on Japanese society, and also Japanese novels. It's because before, people tended…

— Mamoru Oshii

Human rights education is much more than a lesson in schools or a theme for a day; it is a process to…

— Kofi Annan

I think if you listen to our records, they come at different points in your life. When people say to me that…

— Torquil Campbell

It's such a biblical posture in worship that speaks of reverence. If you look through the Bible, there's a whole host of…

— Matt Redman

Jazz is the music of the body. The breath comes through brass. It is the body's breath, and the strings' wails and…

— Anais Nin

There is more to Indian cinema than just Bollywood. I think regional cinema, especially Tamil and Marathi cinema, are exploring some really…

— Anurag Kashyap

It is not extraordinary that the extraterrestrial origin of women was a recurrent theme of science fiction.

— Kingsley Amis

But honestly, if you do a rigorous survey of my work, I'll bet you'll find that biology is a theme far more…

— David Brin

Give me a theme," the little poet cried, "And I will do my part," "'Tis not a theme you need," the world…

— Richard Watson Gilder

The moment at which music reveals its true nature is contained in the ancient exercise of the theme with variations. The complete…

— Pierre Schaeffer

Though energy and inspiration diminish, experience grows - the theme of parents and kids, for instance.

— Steve Erickson

I'm not that sort of writer where I can restrict myself to a theme, just in case nothing good comes of it.

— Joe Lycett

Critics have never been able to discover a unifying theme in my films. For thatmatter, neither have I.

— John Huston

Every true writer is like a bird; he repeats the same song, the same theme, all his life. For me, this theme…

— Alberto Moravia

Clearly, the left-wing groups want to use this carbon theme as a tool for wealth redistribution.

— Lubos Motl

“Human beings, you see, fall apart all the time. In many different ways. That is the central theme. There is no need…

— Patrick Somerville

They say great themes make great novels. but what these young writers don't understand is that there is no greater theme than…

— John O'Hara

To me I think artists in general make a statement - and for the rest of their lives - every album, every…

— Mark Mothersbaugh

We always thought we had to follow a certain theme but I don't agree with that anymore. I think the fans deserve…

— Tom Cochrane

We are all souls, and what I have learnt so far is that while God is male, the souls created by Him…

— Kailash Kher

I did as much theater as I could. I worked at a theme park and a Bible theater and a community theater.

— Cailee Spaeny