Theme Quotes

698 quotes by 612 authors

I'm pretty much fixated on certain themes. Family, but it's family of choice as much as family of blood. Individuality, yes, but not at the… — Charles de Lint
A running theme in my life is my inability to say no to anything. — David Pogue
Either still I find Some imperfection in the chosen theme, Or see of absolute accomplishment Much wanting, so much wanting, in myself, That I recoil… — William Wordsworth
Meditation on any theme, if positive and honest, inevitably separates him who does the meditating from the opinion prevailing around him, from that which ...… — Jose Ortega y Gasset
My book had a universal theme. It's not a "racial" novel. It portrays an aspect of civilization, not necessarily Southern civilization. — Harper Lee
My theme is memory, that winged host that soared about me one grey morning of war-time. We possess nothing certainly except the past. — Evelyn Waugh
The theme of Cosmology, which is the basis of all religions, is the story of the dynamic effort of the World passing into everlasting unity,… — Alfred North Whitehead
The theme of exile is attractive to me, because it's sort of like the family business. Not just music, but travel. — Elvis Costello
Room 10 [a short film she codirected with Andrea Buchanan] nailed my personal theme: love and choosing to stay in the room when the going… — Jennifer Aniston
As an actor, I'm attracted to drama; as a director, it's humor - because it's the story of my life, and I can't be that… — Jodie Foster
I don't know why my brain has kept all the words to the Gilligan's Island theme song and has deleted everything about triangles. — Jeff Foxworthy
Media bias has been a favorite theme of the Right for decades, of course. — Thomas Frank
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
My theme is going to be: Together we can win the future. The right policies lead to the right results. And I'm going to argue… — Newt Gingrich
The theme for me is love and the lack of it. We all want that and we don't know how to get it, and everything… — Ryan Gosling
I wouldn't say that 'The Fabric of the Cosmos' is a book on cosmology. Cosmology certainly plays a big part, but the major theme is… — Brian Greene
'The Simpsons' from the very beginning was based on our memories of brash '60s sitcoms - you had a main title theme that was bombastic… — Matt Groening
People have called me Superman my whole life. In various sports, that seems to be the common theme. My favorite superhero is actually the Incredible… — Robert Griffin III
The whole reason one wants to do lower budget films is because the lower the budget, the bigger the ideas, the bigger the themes, the… — Francis Ford Coppola
My mother and I parting company at four years old is a recurring theme; although it's not symbolically necessarily present, it's present in all my… — Billy Corgan

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