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Theme Quotes - Page 3

Small minds can never handle great themes.

"Letter 60" by Saint Jerome,

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

Russell Brand (2008). “My Booky Wook”, p.119, Hachette UK

Ultimately, your theme will find you. You don't have to go looking for it.

"Richard Russo on Painting a Canvas With His Novels". HBO Interview, www.hbo.com.

I hammer on a theme until I'm tired of it and the audience is tired of it.

Interview with Tom Lewis, www.scpr.org. September 7, 2012.

They say great themes make great novels. but what these young writers don't understand is that there is no greater theme than men and women.

John O'Hara (1977). “"An artist is his own fault": John O'Hara on writers and writing”, Southern Illinois University

Our business is not to solve problems beyond our mortal powers, but to see to it that our thoughts are not unworthy of the great theme.

William Macneile Dixon (1937). “The Human Situation: The Gifford Lectures Delivered in the University of Glasgow, 1935-1937”, London : E. Arnold

Media bias has been a favorite theme of the Right for decades, of course.

"Decline with a Chance of Fall" by Thomas Frank, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 6, 2008.

Each nation has a theme: everything else is secondary. India's theme is religion.

Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2173, Manonmani Publishers

In art, interest must be centred on the principal theme.

Swami Vivekananda “My Idea of Education”, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)