Theme Quotes
698 quotes by 612 authors
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A library in the middle of a community is a cross between an emergency exit, a life-raft and a festival. They are cathedrals of the…
— Caitlin Moran
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Want something else more than success. Success is a lovely thing, but your desire to say something, your worth, and your identity shouldn’t rely on…
— Veronica Roth
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Life is not a theme park, and if it is, the theme is death.
— Russell Brand
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People need routines. It's like a theme in music. But it also restrictsyour thoughts and actions and limits your freedom. It structures your priorities and…
— Haruki Murakami
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My needs were simple I didn't bother much with themes or felicitous phrases and skipped fine descriptions of weather, landscapes and interiors. I wanted characters…
— Ian Mcewan
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If there is one ‘constant’ in the structure and theme of the wonder tale, it is transformation.
— Jack Zipes
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Love is not a theme. It's an atmosphere, a mood.
— Cecelia Ahern
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Every true writer is like a bird; he repeats the same song, the same theme, all his life. For me, this theme as always been…
— Alberto Moravia
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I have been happy, though in a dream. I have been happy-and I love the theme: Dreams! in their vivid colouring of life As in…
— Edgar Allan Poe
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If Gone With the Wind has a theme it is that of survival. What makes some people come through catastrophes and others, apparently just as…
— Margaret Mitchell
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I suppose all of my films have a common theme. If I think about it, though, the only theme I can think of is really…
— Akira Kurosawa
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They were like English teachers who took the fun out of a perfectly good book by breaking it down into themes and sentence structures
— Tawni O'Dell
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In my lifetime I was to write only one book, this would be the one. Just as the past Lingers in the present, all my…
— Elie Wiesel
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A red traffic light loomed, and Cecilia slammed her foot on the brake. The fact that Polly no longer wanted a pirate party was breathtakingly…
— Liane Moriarty
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The theme you choose may change or simply elude you, but being your own story means you can always choose the tone. It also means…
— Toni Morrison
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The plain truth is that the only consistent theme in advertising is the absence of any consistent theme.
— Prince William of Hesse-Kassel
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The deepest, the only theme of human history, compared to which all others are of subordinate importance, is the conflict of skepticism with faith.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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I have never wanted to be typecast, one of those actors who plays a variation on a one-note theme. So just as I enjoy playing…
— Ian Mckellen
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You can't overestimate the need to plan and prepare. In most of the mistakes I've made, there has been this common theme of inadequate planning…
— Chris Corrigan
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The culture of the hop ... so analagous to the culture and uses of the grape, may afford a theme for future poets.
— Henry David Thoreau
Who Wrote These Theme Quotes
612 authors contributed a total of 698 Theme Quotes, led by these top contributors: