I have a vision of artists putting into film, drama, literature, music, and paintings great themes and great characters from the Book… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
One yearns unspeakably for a composer who gives out his pair of honest themes, and then develops them unashamed, and then hangs… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“His theme was happiness—what it is and what it might not have been, where he might find it and where it might… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
I knew I wanted to write on religious themes when I was a GI in World War II. I saw and experienced… — Dave Brubeck Copy Share Image
My mind is like a theme park, because it's fun and there's lots of cool stuff and you can take rides. — Martellus Bennett Copy Share Image
Have an objective to give your bender a theme. For instance, stalking and killing a wild pig with a bowie knife. — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
My job ranges from creating the initial overall theme of the season, to developing fabrics and sketching to sampling and fitting. — Nicole Richie Copy Share Image
There are certain themes of which the interest is all-absorbing, but which are too entirely horrible for the purposes of legitimate fiction. — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
It's a myth that you need to understand all the ins and outs of music. The ideal scenario is you have a… — Henry Jackman Copy Share Image
I don't like to explain the clothes, how I made them, the theme, et cetera. It's because the clothes are just as… — Rei Kawakubo Copy Share Image
When you look at the theme to 'The Cape,' you're going to notice that I take one structure and repeat it up… — Bear McCreary Copy Share Image
The media theme was, "June is when you win the presidency," because that's what they thought Hillary [Clinton] was doing. Hillary was… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Certain things are done intentionally opposite - like there's no sound at the end or synthesizers or all that stuff. Anything that… — A. R. Rahman Copy Share Image
Why is it that I can remember so easily the lyrics to the opening theme song of 'Gilligan's Island?' Why do I… — Robert Lepage Copy Share Image
Wherever my story takes me, however dark and difficult the theme, there is always some hope and redemption, not because readers like… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
Drawing from art history and mythology allows me to connect with viewers in a familiar, yet loose visual framework. Blending disparate histories… — John Dyer Baizley Copy Share Image
It was just a wonderful experience, one for the memory book for sure. The sad thing about it was that the picture… — Curtis Hanson Copy Share Image
I haven't written a novel or something that long, because I really am improvising all along and the story is growing new… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Above all, mine is a love story. Unlike most love stories, this one involves chance, gravity, a dash of head trauma. It… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
It was Sci-Fi and fantasy that got me reading, and Sci-Fi writers in particular have pack rat minds. They introduce all sorts… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Confession frees, but power reduces one to silence; truth does not belong to the order of power, but shares an origincal affinity… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Somewhere in your life there will be an overriding theme to your quest - some part of your desire that cannot be… — Stuart Wilde Copy Share Image
The soul of wit may become the very body of untruth. However elegant and memorable, brevity can never, in the nature of… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
I've been making 16mm urban landscape films about San Francisco for many years. I choose different nonfiction themes to investigate and am… — Jenni Olson Copy Share Image
If a life can have a 'theme-song' - and I believe every worthwhile one has - mine is [best] expressed in one… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Enough of self, that darling luscious theme, O'er which philosophers in raptures dream; Of which with seeming disregard they write Then prizing… — Charles Churchill Copy Share Image
I hear filmmakers saying, 'I wanted to make to make a film about this issue, or this theme,' but I never start… — Andrea Arnold Copy Share Image
Big media are all about the angle, the spin. Look to the overarching theme that runs through each and every news story.… — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
I was excited to discover, in this tale by Eliade, the key themes that I most hope to understand better - time,… — Francis Ford Coppola Copy Share Image
A major theme in all my books is that the CIA is not only the first line of defense but they should… — Vince Flynn Copy Share Image
If there is a single theme that dominates all my writings, all my obsessions, it is that of memory-because I fear forgetfulness… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
“If a theme runs through the history of Florida, it is this: something's great, and someone comes along to mess it up.” — Eliot Kleinberg Copy Share Image
There are a lot of westerns that deal with people standing up for their principles, and that is the predominant theme that… — Rod Lurie Copy Share Image
I don't know why my brain has kept all the words to the Gilligan's Island theme song and has deleted everything about… — Jeff Foxworthy Copy Share Image
It's a very tough time for the playwright. Broadway has become almost a musical comedy theme park with all these long-running shows. — John Lithgow Copy Share Image
The song How do you like me now? By Toby Keith will be my personal theme song when I attend my first… — Robert Cheeke Copy Share Image
Someone recently played me 'Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell' by Das Racist. That should be my theme song. — Dhani Harrison Copy Share Image
I wasn't writing stories with the intention of creating a particular collection. I simply wrote stories, and then discovered common themes among… — Bonnie Jo Campbell Copy Share Image
I have been happy, though in a dream. I have been happy-and I love the theme: Dreams! in their vivid colouring of… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
The highest grossing films have great, moral messages - not dirty, base themes, so we're trying to get producers to make more… — Morgan Brittany Copy Share Image