What I like in novels that I read and enjoy is interplay of theme: the mystery of how we seem to be… — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
“Once I realize that the tune I’m whistling in my head is the theme that’s driving my heart, I suddenly realize that… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
If there is an abiding theme in 'The Pursuit of Happiness,' it is the idea that you come into the world already… — Douglas Kennedy Copy Share Image
Weirdly I do have theme tunes, in the sense of walk-on music. 'O Julissi' is the best I ever heard. — Tim Key Copy Share Image
Editing is such a voyeuristic treat for me. I land on a theme and ask authors to pen works that fit the… — Alison Tyler Copy Share Image
People like scary stories. There's a fascination with fear themes, and we want to face those things in a weird, subconscious way. — Mel Gibson Copy Share Image
If there's a theme in my work, it's that I like to focus on smart people who are facing oppression and who… — Molly Crabapple Copy Share Image
A related recurring theme is the exploration of how we take for granted the things in our immediate environment that are common… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
The YA category is an entirely new one, and seems to have more to do with readability than with age group or… — Russell Smith Copy Share Image
There's something in the Zeitgeist now. A lot of [film] scripts I get have these very dark themes, a cornucopia of dysfunction.… — Christine Vachon Copy Share Image
They're classic themes, which is why I think it's such a great story to look at again. The concept of being loyal… — Adrian Hodges Copy Share Image
We all perform our lives in a way. And the actor is a perfect metaphor to get at that theme of 'how… — Annette Bening Copy Share Image
'The Odyssey' is a great poem to refugee-dom... Odysseus is not entirely a refugee... he's somebody who's blown off course. The entire… — Lawrence Osborne Copy Share Image
In most of my films I write the music into the script. I'm listening to songs and lyrics that empower the themes… — Warwick Thornton Copy Share Image
It is remarkable how a man cannot summarize his thoughts in even the most general sort of way without betraying himself completely,… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
I had one simple idea about telling friends about arts and technology events. People in the community suggested everything else to us,… — Craig Newmark Copy Share Image
I did not write it [Coming of Age in Samoa] as a popular book, but only with the hope that it would… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
The very problem of mind and body suggests division; I do not know of anything so disastrously affected by the habit of… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The fourth paradigm forces us at every point to discern between the creationally valid and the sinfully perverse and thus confronts us… — Albert M. Wolters Copy Share Image
I’m beginning to sense a theme,” Mircea said, tossing his suit coat over a buckskin-covered chair. A moose head with huge, outspread… — Karen Chance Copy Share Image
A recurring theme in the literature of secular humanism is the harsh assault upon traditional religion, especially Christianity. — Guenter Lewy Copy Share Image
What is Christian in art does not lie in the theme but in the spirit of it, in its wisdom and the… — Hans Rookmaaker Copy Share Image
Any film is about heroism: the triumph of good over evil. If you look back at my films, you will see that… — Salman Khan Copy Share Image
I've firmly come to the conclusion that there are no 'themes' for me anymore. I can't be told who to hate, who… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
When I write, I work off of a theme, an emotion, a narrative - thinking of it and then expounding on it. — Chance The Rapper Copy Share Image
I want to take themes that are shared throughout the world, express them through animation, and make movies from them. — Mamoru Hosoda Copy Share Image
Stevie Nicks has always been my fashion icon, so I wanted to blend her infamous witchy style with the 90s valley girl… — Bethany Cosentino Copy Share Image
In a sense, all of my books have been about a 'poisonous pedagogy,' which engenders a culture of obedience, this underlying theme… — John Bradshaw Copy Share Image
Ironically, my rabbi was a bar mitzvah Nazi. So I got bar mitzvahed. And though I didn't want to, the theme of… — Billy Eichner Copy Share Image
I was detained a couple of times but that was for not handing in homework because I was playing golf or not… — Rory McIlroy Copy Share Image
Every human is so layered. And 'Brain,' that theme is about - I'm just such a sensitive person, and I can pick… — Banks Copy Share Image
That's a big battle to win, to be able to do a main title sequence and a theme song these days. That's… — Peter M. Lenkov Copy Share Image
If you're gonna take people on a journey that deals with some pretty heavy themes, I think you best have a sense… — Francesca Gregorini Copy Share Image
The music in the movie [Everybody Loves Somebody] is very much hand-picked specifically because it's our history and our traditions. The themes… — Karla Souza Copy Share Image
This week Disney opened its first ever theme park in China. More than ten thousand children showed up on opening day. And… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
I pray you indulge me for a space, for I am going to set out on a speech which may have some… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
Whether to the average person, applying contemporary community standards, the dominant theme of the material taken as a whole appeals to prurient… — William J. Brennan Copy Share Image
One of my favorite songs from the album is a song called 'For Better or Worse,' and it's basically about unconditional love,… — Debbie Gibson Copy Share Image
I'm actually quite critical of the storytelling theme. I think all the storytellers are not storytellers. — Stefan Sagmeister Copy Share Image
Every writer has certain subjects that they write about again and again, and . . . most people's books are just variations on certain themes. — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image