Theme Quotes

698 quotes by 612 authors

A Name Is A Label, And As Soon As There Is A Label, The Ideas Disappear And Out Comes Label-Worship And Label-Bashing, And Instead Of… — Richard Bach
When I go to Florida for Christmas I always take my nieces and nephews out on excursions, ... I become like a big kid again.… — John Barrowman
My opening line to my students, and a recurring theme in my classes, was that the big design problem isn't designing a house for your… — Richard Saul Wurman
Poetry restores language by breaking it, and I think that much contemporary writing restores fantasy, as a genre of writing in contrast to a genre… — Michael Cisco
Out of the blending of human and animal stories comes the theme that I hope is inherent in all my books: that man is an… — Fred Bodsworth
While it's true that some writers, when taking on love and war, find the task too big, or only succeed in one but not the… — Meg Wolitzer
I stick to simple themes. Love. Hate. No nuances. I stay away from psychoanalyst's couch scenes. Couches are good for one thing. — John Wayne
He wanted us to play whatever we played in the most characteristic and appropriate style. Even it was the theme from 'The Godfather,' you needed… — Manny Laureano
A young man, just beginning the study of musical composition, once went to Mozart and asked him the formula for developing the theme of a… — James Keller
I've always thought that Boathouse Row looked best at night, when hundreds of electric lights outline the shape of each building, truning them into fantastic… — Brad Alan Lewis
Eakins rejected gentlemen athletics as his theme. Instead, he took a subject that had been the stuff of illustrated weeklies and the penny press and… — Barry S. Strauss
American movies and music deliver themes of freedom, innocence, and power that appeal to others - partly because America itself was put together out of… — Todd Gitlin
The highest grossing films have great, moral messages - not dirty, base themes, so we're trying to get producers to make more of the uplifting… — Morgan Brittany
Since man, fragment of the universe, is governed by the same laws that preside over the heavens, it is by no means absurd to search… — Marguerite Yourcenar
The song How do you like me now? By Toby Keith will be my personal theme song when I attend my first high school reunion. — Robert Cheeke
The moment at which music reveals its true nature is contained in the ancient exercise of the theme with variations. The complete mystery of music… — Pierre Schaeffer
They were upon their great theme: "When I get to be a man!" Being human, though boys, they considered their present estate too commonplace to… — Booth Tarkington
I had to do this very aggressive, big score in a very short time, and knowing that in the beginning, middle, and end would be… — Danny Elfman
Painting is traditional but for me that doesn't mean the academy. I felt a need to paint; I love painting. It was something natural -… — Gerhard Richter
Her theme was happiness: what it was; what it was not; where we might find it, where not; and how, if found, it must be… — Mary Lavin

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