If the work of art is good enough, it must not be criticized for its theme. I don't think it can be… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
Translated books rarely get reviewed in the press. Books or poems or works of art that don't seem to have a corresponding… — Elliott Colla Copy Share Image
I like to create what I call 'tablescapes.' It's so much more fun when you organize your table around a theme, don't… — Sandra Lee Copy Share Image
I'm not saying it's a bad thing to do, but when you try to deal with prescient themes in the present, that… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
I'd say the biggest relationship is the repetition of certain themes. I don't want to say "topics," but certain points of interest. — James Salter Copy Share Image
Wishing to open my mouth, O brethren, and speak on the exalted theme of humility, I am filled with fear, even as… — Isaac of Nineveh Copy Share Image
My earliest memory is nursing and struggling to see the colored lights making up the map of the world, the famous backdrop… — Ronan Farrow Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, and the Hockey Night in Canada theme issued from our black-and-white Sylvania TV, I disappeared to the… — Neil Macdonald Copy Share Image
You can't have F1 without Ferrari - you just can't have it. It's part of the theme that is the red car,… — Chris Rea Copy Share Image
My main theme is the extension of the nervous system in the electric age, and thus, the complete break with five thousand… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
I realized that if I wanted to truly talk about vastness and the sublime and scale and the West - recurrent themes… — Michael Light Copy Share Image
Our theme for this year's festivities, Dreams and Challenges of Asian Pacific Americans, speaks to the many generations of Asian Pacific Americans… — Lucille Roybal-Allard 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 essence of boredom is to be found in the obsessive search for novelty. Satisfaction lies in mindful repetition, the discovery of… — George Leonard Copy Share Image
I feel like the theme song to 'Duck Tales.' 'Life is like a hurricane; it's a duck blur.' That's absolutely what it… — Alaska Copy Share Image
The development of the doctrine of international arbitration, considered from the standpoint of its ultimate benefits to the human race, is the… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
An adaptation leads the cinema-goer to the original to find out what they're missing and if they already know the book, it… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
[H]istory is a melodrama on the theme of parasitism, characterized by scenes that are exciting or dull, as the case may be,… — Max Nordau Copy Share Image
If the Beatles made England swing for the young, then Bond was a travel-poster boy for the earmuff brigade. The Bond films… — Richard Corliss Copy Share Image
I once heard some idiot on the radio saying that all great art has suffering as its dominant theme, and that the… — Bart Yates Copy Share Image
And yet, we know how fatal the pursuit of liveliness may be: it may result in ... tiresome acrobatics. ... Flashy effects… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
In my first class at the University of Kentucky, my American Literature professor came in, and the first sentence out of his… — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
All morning I struggled with the sensation of stray wisps of one world seeping through the cracks of another. Do you know… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
I try to construct each of my novels around one central theme - core tensions shared by the characters. — Chris Pavone Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image