Theme Quotes

698 quotes by 612 authors

Odonianism is anarchism. Not the bomb-in-the-pocket stuff, which is terrorism, whatever name it tries to dignify itself with, not the social-Darwinist economic 'libertarianism' of the… — Ursula K. Le Guin
Children surviving childhood is my obsessive theme and my life's concern, — Maurice Sendak
You need a theme in a picture book just as much or maybe even more than you need it in a novel. — Eve Bunting
Suffice to say that the theme (the WHAT of the movie) is going to determine the style (the HOW of the movie). — Sidney Lumet
Its theme-- the operation of divine grace on a group of diverse but closely connected characters-- was perhaps presumptuously large, but I make no apology… — Evelyn Waugh
There are certain themes of which the interest is all-absorbing, but which are too entirely horrible for the purposes of legitimate fiction. — Edgar Allan Poe
Demonic figures and occult themes have disappeared from modern magic. — David Copperfield
The theme of the Grail is the bringing of life into what is known as 'the wasteland.' The wasteland is the preliminary theme to which… — Joseph Campbell
My theme for philanthropy is the same approach I used with technology: to find a need and fill it. — Dr. An Wang
Each of my records has a different focus, a different theme. — Marc Edwards
In reading the biographies of very successful men and women, one theme frequently surfaces: such people have a strong bias for action. Those who achieve… — Steve Pavlina
I waited for the idea to consolidate, for the grouping and composition of themes to settle themselves in my brain. — Claude Monet
In literature only trouble is interesting. It takes trouble to turn the great themes of life into a story: birth, love, sex, work, and death. — Janet Burroway
I think all writers are always collecting characters as we go along. Not just characters of course, we're collecting EVERYTHING. Bits and pieces of story.… — Alexandra Sokoloff
The story, I like to say and remember, is always smarter than youâ€”there will be patterns of theme, image, and idea that are much savvier… — Lucy Corin
Pay attention to your visual themes. — Andrew Mayne
I CAN MAKE YOUR PUSSY WHISTLE LIKE THE ANDY GRIFFITH THEME SONG. — Drake
I was excited to discover, in this tale by Eliade, the key themes that I most hope to understand better time, consciousness and the dreamlike… — Francis Ford Coppola
More generally, I made an effort to leave out things that weren't relevant to the main narrative themes of the book, namely that there were… — Walter Isaacson
From the glow of enthusiasm I let the melody escape. I pursue it. Breathless I catch up with it. It flies again, it disappears, it… — Ludwig van Beethoven

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