Theme quotes
118 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"My songs have always been frustrating themes, relationships that I've had. And now that I'm in love, I expect it to be really happy, or at least there won't be half as much anger as there was."
"My songs have always had frustrating themes - relationships I've had"
"Any material may be used but the theme is the same and the response is the same for all artwork... we all have the same concern, but the artist must know exactly what the experience is. He must pursue the truth relentlessly"
"I guess my strongest recurring theme is honoring love, even when it's lost."
"What can I but enumerate old themes?"
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"'Dilbert' became popular during the downsizing of the '90s, and job security was a major theme of the strip."
"Love's a recurring theme through my work."
"Life is not a theme park, and if it is, the theme is death."
"I hammer on a theme until I'm tired of it and the audience is tired of it."
"Every novel starts with a theme, and I am constantly looking for big ideas."
"The basic theme of the kapha metabolic type is relaxed."
"I don't necessarily look for dark themes; they just seem to appear."
"Obviously death is a theme I'm fascinated by."
"Lady gagas "hair" is my theme song."
"Media bias has been a favorite theme of the Right for decades, of course."
"Of course, we talked about Westerns we like with [James Ransone in Valley of Violence] , but it was always thematically in relation to the movie and what the themes of the movie were."
"Transformation, liberation and celebration are the themes of all my novels."
"Every broken lunatic needed a theme song."
"If there's another thing that sportswriting teaches you, it is that there are no transcendent themes in life. In all cases things are here and they're over, and that has to be enough."
"In art, interest must be centred on the principal theme."
"Each nation has a theme: everything else is secondary. India's theme is religion."
"I'm happy to talk in general themes, but when we get down to specifics about my family, for me that's always been off-limits."
"If my life has had a theme, I suppose it has been a typical American theme in that, for most of it, I have been looking for happiness and success."
"As we [with Edward Herman] discuss there [in Manufacturing Consent] and elsewhere, recognition of the importance of "manufacturing consent" has become an ever more central theme in the more free societies."
"New earths, new themes expect us."
