All Quotes

The thematic, psychological, and cultural concerns of a writer are more relevant than whatever literary mode he or she chooses to deal with in any given novel.
‐‐ Norman Spinrad

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.
‐‐ Ryan Gosling

The theme is the theme of humiliation, which is the square root of sin, as opposed to the freedom from humiliation, and love, which is the square root of wonderful.
‐‐ Carson McCullers

The theme of luck comes up a lot. It's something I thought about before, why some people are lucky and some people aren't lucky. It seems like some people you meet can sort of cultivate luck, and I've always been fascinated by that.
‐‐ Patrick deWitt

The theme of old age doesn't seem to fascinate Hollywood.
‐‐ John Updike

The theme of sisters - of missing sisters, of needing sisters, the special love that sisters share or the antagonism sisters share - is something that is very close to me.
‐‐ Miriam Toews

The theme of the party was Neverland Ranch, so guests were asked to come as anyone or anything associated with Michael Jackson. It was all very disturbing.
‐‐ April Winchell

The theme song of 'Doug' was my ringtone once for literally a year.
‐‐ Kimiko Glenn

The themes, ideas and the characters from 'Skyfall' can obviously continue on, because it is a franchise, and it is an ongoing story.
‐‐ John Logan

The themes in WordPress drive a lot of design trends. It democratizes design... You make a theme, and suddenly it's on hundreds and thousands of sites.
‐‐ Matt Mullenweg

The themes Poe used were universal and timeless. As long as the English language exists at all, we will be able to appreciate what he did. It will not age! It will not become dated!
‐‐ John Astin

The themes that make one laugh always stem from poverty, hunger, misery, old age, sickness, and death. These are the themes that make Italians laugh, anyway.
‐‐ Mario Monicelli

The theologian considers sin mainly as an offence against God; the moral philosopher as contrary to reasonableness.
‐‐ Thomas Aquinas

The theologians have recognized that the ideal is the imitation of God. If we be a part of such an organic thing, this thing is God to us, as I am God to the cells that compose me.
‐‐ Charles Fort

The theological contacts between Jews and Christians during much of the premodern period are best characterized as disputations. Even when not engaged in face-to-face argumentation, Jews and Christians spoke about each other in essentially disputational terms.
‐‐ David Novak

The theological virtue of hope is the patient and trustful willingness to live without closure, without resolution, and still be content and even happy because our Satisfaction is now at another level, and our Source is beyond ourselves.
‐‐ Richard Rohr

The theoretical casting part of movies is the funnest part. You really can imagine so many different versions of a story based on who's embodying it.
‐‐ Cary Fukunaga

The theoretical postulate of all diplomatic discussion between nations is the assumed willingness of every nation to do justice.
‐‐ Elihu Root

The theoretical understanding of the world, which is the aim of philosophy, is not a matter of great practical importance to animals, or to savages, or even to most civilised men.
‐‐ Bertrand Russell

The theoretically unrestricted right to develop power, to wage war against other states, is antisocial and is doubly dangerous, because the state as a mass entity represents a low moral and intellectual level.
‐‐ Christian Lous Lange

The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and theological in spite of themselves.
‐‐ M. H. Abrams

The theory in great families was 'why work if you don't have to.' Being a public figure was reserved for movie stars.
‐‐ Jacqueline de Ribes

The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.
‐‐ Karl Marx

The theory of cultural bias... is the idea that a culture is based on a particular form of organization. It can't be transplanted except to another variant of that organization.
‐‐ Mary Douglas

The theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of that is in principle capable of explaining the existence of organized complexity.
‐‐ Richard Dawkins

The theory of evolution is totally inadequate to explain the origin and manifestation of the inorganic world.
‐‐ John Ambrose Fleming

The theory of evolution, like the theory of gravity, is a scientific fact.
‐‐ Neil deGrasse Tyson

The theory of founder effects does not explain how novel features like plumage traits arise.
‐‐ Peter R. Grant

The Theory of Groups is a branch of mathematics in which one does something to something and then compares the result with the result obtained from doing the same thing to something else, or something else to the same thing.
‐‐ James Newman

The theory of isolation of certain tasks in certain hemispheres of the brain suggests I shouldn't even be able to speak, never mind write.
‐‐ Chris Van Allsburg

The theory of mechanism design can be thought of as the 'engineering' side of economic theory.
‐‐ Eric Maskin

The theory of permanent Muslim-Christian enmity, though it flourishes in the caves of Tora Bora and parts of the American academy, was long ago exploded by the historians.
‐‐ James Buchan

The theory of relativity worked out by Mr. Einstein, which is in the domain of natural science, I believe can also be applied to the political field. Both democracy and human rights are relative concepts - and not absolute and general.
‐‐ Jiang Zemin

The theory of rights enables us to rise and overthrow obstacles, but not to found a strong and lasting accord between all the elements which compose the nation.
‐‐ Giuseppe Mazzini

The theory of undirected evolution is already dead, but the work of science continues.
‐‐ Michael Behe

The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God's children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.
‐‐ H. L. Mencken

The theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so, generation after generation, through all changes of opinion and detail, is the one that must rule all observation.
‐‐ Adam Smith

The theory that if wages go up, employment goes down isn't a physical law like F=MA. It's a moral law, like 'Bedtime is 9:00 P.M.'
‐‐ Nick Hanauer

The thermodynamic properties of electrolyte solutions can be determined from the measurements of the voltage between electrodes reversible to both ions.
‐‐ Lars Onsager

The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.
‐‐ Salvador Dali

The thickness of the walls should be sufficient for two armed men to pass each other with ease.
‐‐ Vitruvius

The Thin Man was a good break, because it was highly popular. I played a gigolo in it.
‐‐ Cesar Romero

The thing a drama school can't give you is instinct. It can sharpen instinct but that can't be taught, and you have to have intuition. It's an essential ingredient.
‐‐ Gary Oldman

The thing a player has to ask himself: 'Do you want to choose winning over standing out?' Dwyane Wade made that choice, and I don't think he gets enough credit.
‐‐ Doc Rivers

The thing about '48 Hrs.' that really isn't thought about much is that's the first film where the black and the white criticize each other.
‐‐ Nick Nolte

The thing about a cartoon is, you can do whatever you want. The tightrope that we are walking on 'The Simpsons' and 'Futurama' is 'How do you continue to surprise the audience, but make them good surprises?' Not every surprise is good, but you want to continue jolting people.
‐‐ Matt Groening

The thing about a good podcast is you have to have a good host. If you don't have a compelling host then you have nothing.
‐‐ Adam Carolla

The thing about a hero, is even when it doesn't look like there's a light at the end of the tunnel, he's going to keep digging, he's going to keep trying to do right and make up for what's gone before, just because that's who he is.
‐‐ Joss Whedon

The thing about a pick-up line is, even if it works, then what? I just figure you unapologetically be yourself, and if it works, cool.
‐‐ Skylar Astin

The thing about a plant is, let's say it will have 50 or 100 little points of bright red. If you look at the thing as it goes down, it becomes green in a way... It is way more spectacular than pointillist paintings where these things are played with, but never to the level of what happens in nature.
‐‐ Robert Irwin