Theme Quotes - page 17

The hardest theme in science fiction is that of the alien. The simplest solution of all is in fact quite profound-that the real difficulty lies not in understanding what is alien, but in understanding what is self. (Greg Bear)
I think the great unspoken theme in noir fiction is male self-pity. It pervades noir movies. View quote
James Ellroy
The World's Fair was the precursor to theme parks like Disneyworld, and the really sort of cheap, superficial promotional architecture that you see everywhere in the U.S. I think there's a danger when you start creating a civilisation that isn't meant to last. View quote
Sufjan Stevens
There are exotic species of words jumping out inviting me to play. I weave them into a theme, a garland of words. View quote
Anu Garg
I love theme parks but I'm a real chicken on rides. I'd rather invent scary rides for my books than go on them for real. View quote
R. L. Stine
The United States are deemed all the world over to be pre-eminently the land of equality. This was the first feature which struck Europeans when they began, after the peace of 1815 had left them time to look beyond the Atlantic, to feel curious about the phenomena of a new society. This was the great theme of Tocqueville's description, and the starting-point of his speculations; this has been the most constant boast of the Americans themselves, who have believed their liberty more complete than that of any other people, because equality has been more fully blended with it. View quote
James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce
I am more and more engrossed with the single poetic theme of Life and Death, for there doesn't seem to be any question more directly relevant than this one of what survives of all the beloved. View quote
Alun Lewis
Roger:I think everyone can take different things from the lyrics, so it's up to you if you feel there is a theme,, to me, it's obviously LTJ lyrics and so it's always sort of dark, yet positive at the same time. I think the lyrics usually have some sort of light at the end of the tunnel ideal going on. View quote
Roger Manganelli
The Ethics of Competition is a book of Frank H. Knight's writings on a common theme: the problem of social control and its various implications. Knight believed in free economic institutions but was also aware that the competitive economic system could be improved. One of the central figures of neoclassical economics in the twentieth century, Knight pursued a lifelong campaign against irrationalities of nationalism, religious fanaticism, and group conflict, while conceding that these were fundamental orientations of human action that might yet frustrate his own work as an economist. While Knight vigorously defended human freedom and the liberal order, he also was sufficiently moved by the shortcomings of liberalism as to condemn it as rife with abuse. View quote
Frank Knight
A very powerful theme in fiction is that of loss. View quote
Alexander McCall Smith
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. (Zig Ziglar)
The theme of choice and the power of culture pops up in my stories often. Before Binti, the biggest example of this is in Who Fears Death when Onyesonwu must face the decision of whether or not to go through a ceremony that required cutting off her clitoris. To many readers, the fact that she even has to think about whether or not to do this is shocking. It's not shocking to me at all, coming from the culture that I come from where the individual is often secondary to the community... View quote
Nnedi Okorafor
In every bit of honest writing in the world ... there is a base theme. Try to understand men, if you understand each other you will be kind to each other. Knowing a man well never leads to hate and nearly always leads to love. View quote
John Steinbeck
Speech after long silence it is right, All other lovers being estranged or dead ... That we descant and yet again descant Upon the supreme theme of Art and Song Bodily decrepitude is wisdom young We loved each other and were ignorant. View quote
William Butler Yeats
A literary creation can appeal to us in all sorts of ways-by its theme, subject, situations, characters. But above all it appeals to us by the presence in it of art. It is the presence of art in Crime and Punishment that moves us deeply rather than the story of Raskolnikov's crime. View quote
Boris Pasternak
As an actor, I'm attracted to drama; as a director, it's humor - because it's the story of my life, and I can't be that serious about it. Being alone is a big theme in all my movies, both as a director and as an actress. View quote
Jodie Foster
The theme is an attempt to trace the defects of society back to the defects of human nature. The moral is that the shape of a society must depend on the ethical nature of the individual and not on any political system however apparently logical or respectable. View quote
William Golding
'Dilbert' became popular during the downsizing of the '90s, and job security was a major theme of the strip. View quote
Scott Adams
I played, like, a year of piano until I learned the 'Pink Panther' theme. That was my goal. Once I was good enough, I quit. Now my music has to have some rock. View quote
Jack Black
Conflict... is a theme that has occupied the thinking of man more than any other, save only God and love. View quote
Anatol Rapoport
Her face ... was a one-of-a-kind, a surprising variation on a familiar theme - a variation that made observers think, Yes - that would be another very nice way for people to look. What Beatrice had done with her face, actually, was what any plain girl could do. She overlaid it with dignity, suffering, intelligence, and a piquant dash of bitchiness. (Kurt Vonnegut)
If Catholic literature has a central theme, it is the difficult journey of the sinner toward redemption. View quote
Dana Gioia
The harder I work, the luckier I get'. It was Thomas Jefferson who started the stream of variations on that theme. He should have added, 'The harder I work on one thing, the unluckier I get on all the other commitments I haven't had time for. View quote
David Fleming
I'm also working on a track for Howard Hewett, and a theme for a new NPR show. View quote
George Duke
The one recurring theme in my writing, and in my life in general, is confusion. The fact that anytime you think you really know something, you're going to find out you're wrong - that is the rule. The moments where you think you have something figured out, those are the exceptions. View quote
Conor Oberst