Best 80 quotes in «theme quotes» category

Neptune's bounty was followed by that of Diana. I had staged a "hunt" to take place while the diners ate. Several of the bigger slaves were dressed like bears, and hunters with bows chased them playfully around the couches while nymphs tried to hinder their progress. They ran carefully around the slaves serving trays of pork cracklings, mushrooms marinated in wine, stuffed dormice, and figs soaked in milk and honey.

She'd never seen a place so decorated so extravagantly. It was like a glittering underwater kingdom, reminding her of the tales of Atlantis that had enchanted her as a child. The walls were hung with gauzy blue and green silk draperies. A painted canvas studded with seashells gave the impression of a castle beneath the sea. Slowly she wandered around the room, inspecting the plaster sculptures of fish, scallop shells, and bare-breasted mermaids. A gaudy treasure chest filled with paste jewels was wedged beneath the central hazard table. The doorway to the next room had been converted into the hull of a sunken ship. Lengths of blue gauze and silver netting were hung overhead, making it seem as if they were under water.

The entire meal had a bird and egg theme, including magnificent castles with birds that flew out when the tower tops were cut off, roasted peacocks that still looked alive, swans made of sugar paste, and hundreds of eggs dyed black in the water of walnut hulls. I would have loved to have seen such a sight!

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

The first dishes, carried out on Barroni's exquisite silver platters, were a selection of marzipan fancies, shaped into hearts and silvered; a mostarda of black figs in spiced syrup; skewers of prosciutto marinated in red wine that I had reduced until it was thick and almost black; little frittate with herbs, each covered with finely sliced black truffles; whole baby melanzane, simmered in olive oil, a recipe I had got from a Turkish merchant I had met in the bathhouse. I set about putting the second course together. I heated two kinds of biroldi, blood sausages: one variety I had made pig's blood, pine nuts and raisins; the other was made from calf's blood, minced pork and pecorino. Quails, larks, grey partridge and figpeckers were roasting over the fire, painted with a sauce made from grape molasses, boiled wine, orange juice, cinnamon and saffron. They blackened as they turned, the thick sauce becoming a lovely, shiny caramel. There were roasted front-quarters of hare, on which would go a deep crimson, almost black sauce made from their blood, raisins, boiled wine and black pepper. Three roasted heads of young pigs, to which I had added tusks and decorated with pastry dyed black with walnut juice so that they resembled wild boar, then baked. Meanwhile, there was a whole sheep turning over the fire, more or less done, but I was holding it so that it would be perfect. The swan- there had to be a swan, Baroni had decided- was ready. I attached it to the armature of wire I had made, so that it stood up regally. The sturgeon, which I had cooked last night at home, and had finally set in aspic at around the fourth hour after midnight, was waiting in a covered salver. There were black cabbage leaves rolled around hazelnuts and cheese; rice porridge cooked in the Venetian style with cuttlefish ink; and of course the roebuck, roasting as well, but already trussed in the position I had designed for it.

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.

The irony was not lost on any of us that despite the theme there was a robot on the throne.

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.

... 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!

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

All animals are minor variations on a very particular theme.

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.

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

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

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

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

Diplomacy is like jazz: endless variations on a theme.

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

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

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

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

Glorious the song, when God's the theme.

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

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

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.

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

I guess every superhero need his theme music.

I get very driven by certain themes and ideas.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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'.

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

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

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.

New earths, new themes expect us.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.