Quotes of Theme - somelinesforyou

“ Whatever be the topic of conversation, the spirit of piety should be diffused through it — as the salt in our food should properly season it all, whatever the article of food may be. ”

- Albert Barnes

“ Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion… the subject must be something you truly love or truly hate. ”

- Dorothea Lange

“ Words and sentences are subjects of revision; paragraphs and whole compositions are subjects of prevision. ”

- Barrett Wendell

“ And spare the poet for his subject's sake. ”

- William Cowper

“ Your Design mind (right brain) attends to the melody of life, whereas your Sign mind (left brain) attends to the notes that compose the melodies. And here is the key to natural writing: the melodies must come first. ”

- Gabriele Lusser Rico

“ America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth. ”

- Jesse Jackson

“ The most self-destructive thought that any person can have is thinking that he or she is not in total control of his or her life. That's when, "Why me?" becomes a theme song. ”

- Roger Dawson

“ You can't tell any kind of a story without having some kind of a theme, something to say between the lines. ”

- Robert Wise

“ Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign. ”

- Woodrow Wilson

“ I set about seeking a thread, a theme, a style, in the realm of legend. Something that might allow me to give free rein to my juvenile sense of romanticism and the beautiful image. ”

- Leni Riefenstahl

“ History is a melodrama on the theme of parasitism, characterized by scenes that are exciting or dull, as the case may be, and many a sudden stagetrick. ”

- Max Nordau

“ 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. ”

- Herman Melville

“ Most horror films fail to scare me. I think The Ring plays more as a psychological thriller. It's smarter, there's more character development and some of the themes explored go a little deeper. ”

- Martin Henderson

“ Our life is a book that writes itself and whose principal themes sometimes escape us. We are like characters in a novel who do not always understand what the author wants of them. ”

- Julian Green

“ No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion. ”

- Jeremy Bentham

“ There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it. ”

- Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“ Tyrannosaurus drives. Tyrannosaurus texts. Tyrannosaurus rex. ”

- Unknown

“ And in another point of view, I think it is right that the address of a president should be on his own subject, and that different subjects should be thus brought in turn before the meetings. ”

- Arthur Cayley

“ The composition of a single melody is born out of a bit of text, perhaps the first line, but it can also be the entire strophe; it can even be the poem's overall form. ”

- Dietrich Fischer Dieskau

“ The Western poet and writer of romance has exactly the same kind of difficulty in comprehending Eastern subjects as you have in comprehending Western subjects. ”

- Lafcadio Hearn

“ In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little, human detail can become a Leitmotiv. ”

- Henri Cartier Bresson

“ The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship. ”

- Robert Anson Heinlein

“ The heart of the melody can never be put down on paper. ”

- Pablo Casals

“ I don't think you necessarily identify and believe in the motifs of the character, but you have to want to play it and want to commit to the lines. ”

- Clive Owen

“ Back in the East you can't do much without the right papers, but with the right papers you can do anything The believe in papers. Papers are power. ”

- Tom Stoppard

“ I'm curious about everything. Even subjects that don't interest me. ”

- Alex Trebek

“ Music is the melody whose text is the world. ”

- Arthur Schopenhauer

“ It's not a very popular subject amongst my audience, who are by nature more internationalist, but I don't choose what to write about, I don't choose my subjects, they kind of choose me. ”

- Billy Bragg

“ Necessity is the theme and the inventress, the eternal curb and law of nature. ”

- Leonardo da Vinci

“ It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme rudely appealed to on each trifling theme. ”

- William Cowper
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