Themes Quotes

236 Themes quotes by 216 unique authors

New earths, new themes expect us. — Henry David Thoreau
Some writers find that they don't know their themes until they've finished the first draft (I am one). They then rewrite with an eye toward… — Nancy Kress
The AIDS epidemic has rolled back a big rotting log and revealed all the squirming life underneath it, since it involves, all at once, the… — Edmund White
I don't want to deal with big, grand themes in my stories; art has nothing to do with themes. When you deal with themes, you… — Tatyana Tolstaya
Beginning writers are often advised to 'write what you know,' and since I knew about quilters - their quirks, their inside jokes, their disputes and… — Jennifer Chiaverini
A lot of the themes of my movies, the actual stories, come from tabloid stories. — Errol Morris
Themes recur again and again in my work. — Eve Arnold
I knew I wanted to write on religious themes when I was a GI in World War II. I saw and experienced so much violence… — Dave Brubeck
I don't really do themes. I might accidentally, but themes are an emergent phenomena of the writing of the book, of just trying to get… — Iain Banks
One of the great themes in American literature is the individual's confrontation with the vast open spaces of the continent. — Justin Cronin
Interest in certain themes doesn't mandate a personal stake or personal experience of those themes. I've killed people in plays, but no one asks me… — Billy Crudup
I also believe that you are what you have to defend, and if you're a black man that's always going to be the bar against… — Don Cheadle
I'm interested in themes that endure from generation to generation. — David Guterson
I think if you look at the themes that are presented in the film, some are inherently social, and I think that any film which… — Atom Egoyan
Some novels present a story form many points of view. Most movies tell only one person's side of the story. Sometime it's easy to use… — Seth Grahame-Smith
French architecture always manages to combine the most magnificent underlying themes of architecture; like Roman design, it looks to the community. — Stephen Gardiner
I find I can't get rid of my trashiness as an artist. A lot of my themes in painting, to the extent that there are… — John Currin
One of my themes is that there is good and evil in everyone. I was not out to make these guys heroes. I really don't… — William Friedkin
What can I but enumerate old themes? — William Butler Yeats
Forgotten rimes, and college themes, Worm-eaten plans, and embryo schemes; A mass of heterogeneous matter. A chaos dark, nor land nor water. — Anna Letitia Barbauld
The weirdest thing I've been fascinated with nowadays is the new contemporary country music, which to me sounds like very strange '70s pop, and sometimes… — Ryan Adams
Different themes inevitably require different methods of expression. This does not imply either evolution or progress; it is a matter of following the idea one… — Pablo Picasso
The development of the doctrine of international arbitration, considered from the standpoint of its ultimate benefits to the human race, is the most vital movement… — William Howard Taft
Our theme is, 'Respected abroad, strong at home.' What do we mean by that? Basically that we want a strong emphasis on affordable health care… — Bill Richardson
Reviewer: 'One of your themes was very similar to one of Beethoven's!' Brahms replied, 'Of course it is. Everyone steals - the important thing is… — Johannes Brahms

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