It was [Totila's] constant theme, that national vice and ruin are inseparably connected; that victory is the fruit of moral as well as military virtue; and that the prince, and even the people, are responsible for the crimes which they neglect to punish.
New York is a theme park for people with IQs over 108.
I went through puberty in a theme park. I'm grateful. That place was a landscape to me. I had adventures every day.
A theme of digital success is keeping it simple.
I'm happy to talk in general themes, but when we get down to specifics about my family, for me that's always been off-limits.
There are themes that somehow stir me and that I find very interesting. They're themes that deal with leadership, the nature of bravery and courage, and how to define those.
The one regret I have about my own abortions is that they cost money that might otherwise have been spent on something more pleasurable, like taking the kids to movies and theme parks.
The challenge to writers today, I think, is not to disown any part of our heritage. Whatever our theme in writing, it is old and tried. Whatever our place, it has been visited by the stranger, it will never be new again. It is only the vision that can be new; but that is enough.
I'm always trying to make people happy, that's really my theme on Vine. I always say I love life like crazy and I want people to love life like crazy too.
The theme of exile is attractive to me, because it's sort of like the family business. Not just music, but travel.
I also used these realistic sounds in a psychological way. With The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, I used animal sounds - as you say, the coyote sound - so the sound of the animal became the main theme of the movie.
I began to write a kind of waltz and in a little more than an hour I had the theme written.
Summer is the sweet spot of the movie-going season -- and it's also peak season for Six Flags theme parks.
Then the voices of the Ainur, like unto harps and lutes, and pipes and trumpets, and viols and organs, and like unto countless choirs singing with words, began to fashipn the theme of Iluvatar to a great music; and a sound arose of endless interchanging melodies woven in harmony that passed beyond hearing into the depths and into the heights, and the places of the dwelling of Iluvatar were filled to overflowing, and the music and the echo of the music went out into the Void, and it was not void.
One thing that's interesting for me is the alignment of the U. S. , Israel, and India along Islamophobia and hate for an entire group of people, and India wanting to be like 'Hey U. S. , we're just like you! We don't like Muslim people either!' For both parts of my identity, there's that theme of Islamophobia. That's pretty disgusting.
As Spectator I wanted to explore photography not as a question (a theme) but as a wound.
Every novel starts with a theme, and I am constantly looking for big ideas.
I'm not saying it's a bad thing to do, but when you try to deal with prescient themes in the present, that is what you're doing.
Transformation, liberation and celebration are the themes of all my novels.
Small minds can never handle great themes.