Themes Quotes

236 quotes by 219 authors

One of the ongoing themes in my work, I hope, and one of the things I believe in, is a sense of human nature, a… — Chris Hondros
To begin... To begin... How to start? I'm hungry. I should get coffee. Coffee would help me think. Maybe I should write something first, then… — Nicolas Cage
I get very driven by certain themes and ideas. — Alex Winter
I think that it's really, really funny to see adult themes in a genre that's usually directed towards children. — John DiMaggio
I feel like when we talk about post-apocalyptic themes that's what we're really talking about. We're always returning to this sense of being alone in… — Colin Stetson
Thrills, chills, spine-tingling mystery, and lots of smiles. It's not easy to combine heart-pounding danger with gut-busting laughs and make it work, but Peterson pulls… — Wayne Thomas Batson
The themes Poe used were universal and timeless. As long as the English language exists at all, we will be able to appreciate what he… — John Astin
Railing and praising were his usual themes; and both showed his judgment in extremes. Either over violent or over civil, so everyone to him was… — John Dryden
Body', 'soul', and 'spirit' may designate phenomenal domains which can be detached as themes for definite investigations; within certain limits their ontological indefiniteness may not… — Martin Heidegger
My songs have always had frustrating themes - relationships I've had — Kurt Cobain
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
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
Pay attention to your visual themes. — Andrew Mayne
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
My themes will not be far-fetched. I will tell of homely every-day phenomena and adventures. — Henry David Thoreau
I pursue no objectives, no systems, no tendency; I have no program, no style, no direction. I have no time for specialized concerns, working themes,… — Gerhard Richter
In my opinion, using creation and evolution as topics for critical-thinking exercises in primary and secondary schools is virtually guaranteed to confuse students about evolution… — Eugenie Scott

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