Best 80 quotes in «theme quotes» category

There are three salient themes that run through any experience of hygge - interiority, contrast and atmosphere. They support and extend each other and shape our understanding of the concept.

... This is a major theme in mathematics: things are what you want them to be. You have endless choices; there is no reality to get in your way. On the other hand, once you have made your choices then your new creations do what they do, whether you like it or not. This is the amazing thing about making imaginary patterns: they talk back!

The sound of trumpets rang out, signaling the arrival of the first course. A parade of glittering slaves trotted forward, some carrying decorations of the sea, statues made of shells, ribbons of blue and silver, or wearing costumes turning them into fish or mermaids. These slaves wandered among the diners as they ate, entertaining them with music or dances reminiscent of the sea. In the midst of these spectacles were the slaves carrying the food on massive trays covered in snow from the mountains, topped with stuffed mussels, lobster mince wrapped in grape leaves, and sea urchins boiled, honeyed, and served open in their own spiny husks.

The teaching of Jesus Christ has as its central theme unfoldment towards a realization of immortality.

All animals are minor variations on a very particular theme.

A musical theme once exhausted, finds its due refuge and repose in silence.

A memoir is a book about some particular thread or theme or moment in a person's life, whereas an autobiography is the entire life.

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

As an actor, I am meant to dabble with different themes and genres.

'Dilbert' became popular during the downsizing of the '90s, and job security was a major theme of the strip.

As Spectator I wanted to explore photography not as a question (a theme) but as a wound.

Children surviving childhood is my obsessive theme and my life's concern.

Diplomacy is like jazz: endless variations on a theme.

Emasculation does seem to be a theme in the roles that I choose.

Each of my records has a different focus, a different theme.

Glorious the song, when God's the theme.

Every (stressful thought) is a variation on a single theme: This shouldn't be happening. I shouldn't be having this experience. God is unjust. Life isn't fair.

Everybody has a theme. You talk to somebody awhile, and you realize they have one particular thing that rules them. The best you can do is a variation on the theme, but that's about it.

I always try and come up with a clear theme when I'm making a videogame.

I've always been interested in themes of memory, paranoia, and revenge.

I'd say the biggest relationship is the repetition of certain themes. I don't want to say "topics," but certain points of interest.

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.

I get very driven by certain themes and ideas.

I guess every superhero need his theme music.

I'm just really old [in Doctor Strange]. Just really, really old. There is I suppose a sort of theme tune which I'm really interested in.

It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.

I think doing variations on a classical theme is a dangerous thing to do.

If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme.

I hear filmmakers saying, 'I wanted to make to make a film about this issue, or this theme,' but I never start like that.

I like different shoes with different themes for different reasons.

I never found even in my juvenile hours that it was necessary to go a thousand miles in search of themes for moralizing.

Jokes do finish themselves. I really do see them as ongoing conversations about personal themes that I ruminate on.

I was "Never Trump." But it turned out never republican was really the theme of this election.

I would like to sing the theme tune of a big film - something like 'Titanic'.

Life is not a theme park, and if it is, the theme is death.

Memory isn't a theme; it's part of the human condition.

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 models, my human figures, are never like extras in an interior. They are the main theme of my work. I depend absolutely on my model.

Men prominent in life are mostly hard to converse with. They lack small-talk, and at the same time one doesn't like to confront them with their own great themes.

Something brushed his leg, and he gazed down into the face of Pippi Tucker. The theme from Jaws raced through his head.

One of the great themes in American literature is the individual's confrontation with the vast open spaces of the continent.

Shambhala existed in Tibet and has been continued over the years, and now it is in the West. At its core, it is very much dedicated to the basic theme of benefiting others.

New earths, new themes expect us.

Obviously death is a theme I'm fascinated by.

One of my theme songs is that if you can't do it in a test tube, don't do it.

Pay attention to your visual themes.

Some clergymen make a motto, instead of a theme, of their texts.

The comedian sticks as religiously to her theme as a dancer sticks to a diet.

The Puritans' sense of priorities in life was one of their greatest strengths. Putting God first and valuing everything else in relation to God was a recurrent Puritan theme.

The first thing I learned was the theme from Peter Gunn.