Theme Quotes

Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign. (Woodrow Wilson)
If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme. View quote
Pablo Picasso
I'll publish right or wrong: Fools are my theme, let satire be my song. View quote
Lord Byron
I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme. View quote
Henry James
A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later. View quote
Stanley Kubrick
Ultimately, your theme will find you. You don't have to go looking for it. View quote
Richard Russo
The theme for me is love and the lack of it. We all want that and we don't know how to get it, and everything we do is some kind of attempt to capture it for ourselves. View quote
Ryan Gosling
They say great themes make great novels.. but what these young writers don't understand is that there is no greater theme than men and women. View quote
John O'Hara
It is an old liberal theme that conservative ideas, being red in tooth and claw, cannot possibly emerge from any notion of the public good. View quote
Charles Krauthammer
A genius doesn't adjust his treatment of a theme to a tyrant's taste. View quote
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The truth is often terrifying, which I think is one of the motifs of Larry and Andrew's cinema. The cost of knowledge is an important theme. In the second and third films, they explore the consequences of Neo's choice to know the truth. It's a beautiful, beautiful story. (Keanu Reeves)
To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme. No great and enduring volume can ever be written on the flea, though many there be that have tried it. View quote
Herman Melville
A piazza is not a plaza. The plaza is the theme park of the piazza; the plaza is the commercial version. A piazza is an empty space with no function. This is what Europeans understand. View quote
Renzo Piano
If you look at music, you see theme, variation, you see symmetry, asymmetry, you see structure, and these are related to skills in the real world. View quote
Dave Van Ronk
Never preach a sermon without a text from the Bible, a text containing the theme which you can elaborate. The text is the best proof in support of your argument. A sermon without a text is an argument without a proof. View quote
Isaac Mayer Wise
I would say my theme has always been paradise lost, always the lost cause, the lost leader, the lost utopia. View quote
Marguerite Young
I like theme parks. The fastest roller coaster I've ever been on is at a casino in Nevada. View quote
Tia Carrere
He had no wish to obliterate anything he had written, but he would dearly have liked to revise it, envying painters, who are allowed to return to the same theme time and time again, clarifying and enriching until they have done all they can with it. A novelist is condemned to provide a succession of novelties, new names for characters, new incidents for his plots, new scenery; but, Mr Pinfold maintained, most men harbour the germs of one or two books only; all else is professional trickery of which the most daemonic of the masters - Dickens and Balzac even - were flagrantly guilty. View quote
Evelyn Waugh
It's practically my subject, my theme: solitude and community; the weirdness and terrors of solitude: the stifling and consolations of community. Also, the consolations of solitude. View quote
Derek Mahon
Meditation on any theme, if positive and honest, inevitably separates him who does the meditating from the opinion prevailing around him, from that which ... can be called "public” or "popular” opinion. View quote
José Ortega y Gasset
Reminding people what in reality it is all about, giving them a theme on which to ponder, creating a shock within them, pulling them out of the delusion of non authenticity, enabling them to become aware of their true possibilities. (Antoni Tàpies)
It is what makes conscious of the conditions and laws of observing which applied in this manner become a theme on its own. The activity of consciousness depending on the way the work itself proceeds, becomes the subject of my attention this way and it is precisely because of this voyeuristic attitude toward the own observation and experience of the subject that the conscious analytic dimension in the work shows. View quote
Antoni Tàpies
If there is a God, he is within. You don't ask God to give you things, you depend on God for your inner theme. View quote
Bruce Lee
Siphonophores do not convey the message-a favorite theme of unthinking romanticism-that nature is but one gigantic whole, all its parts intimately connected and interacting in some higher, ineffable harmony. Nature revels in boundaries and distinctions; we inhabit a universe of structure. But since our universe of structure has evolved historically, it must present us with fuzzy boundaries, where one kind of thing grades into another. View quote
Stephen Jay Gould
The theme of Cosmology, which is the basis of all religions, is the story of the dynamic effort of the World passing into everlasting unity, and of the static majesty of God's vision, accomplishing its purpose of completion by absorption of the World's multiplicity of effort. View quote
Alfred North Whitehead