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"...in song the words tend to lose their significance, do often lose it, while at the other extreme, in current prose it is the musical value that tends to disappear - so that verse stands symmetrically, as it were, between song, on the one hand, and prose on the other - and is thus admirably and delicately balanced between the sensual and the intellectual power of language." »Paul Valery
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"A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later." »Stanley Kubrick
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"Remind me to write an article on the compulsive reading of news. The theme will be that most neuroses can be traced to the unhealthy habit of wallowing in the troubles of five billion strangers." »Robert A. Heinlein
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"The source of the famous Golden Rule. Many famous lines were variations on this theme." »Bible
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"A good novel is an indivisible sum; every scene, sequence and passage of a good novel has to involve, contribute to and advance all three of its major attributes: theme, plot, characterization." »Ayn Rand, The Romantic Manifesto p. 74 (pb 93)
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"In every bit of honest writing in the world, there is a base theme. Try to understand men, if you understand each other you will be kind to each other. Knowing a man well never leads to hate and nearly always leads to love." »John Steinbeck
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"“Being the best trial lawyer alone does not always win the case. What wins cases is hard work and preparation from the entire team. In each of the trials in which I have been involved, we won in large part because our team was better prepared, had a better strategy and trial theme, and knew the facts on our feet better than the other side.”" »Yar Chaikovsky
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"Whose bread I eat his song I sing." »German proverb
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"Silence is more musical than any song." »Christina G. Rossetti
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"Those who wish to sing always find a song." »Swedish Proverb
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"In summer, the song sings itself." »William Carlos Williams
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"The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion... It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider - and progressively better able to grasp any theme or situation - persevering in what he knows to be practical, and concentrating his thought upon it, who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree." »Alexander Graham Bell
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"I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!" »Jerry Van Amerongen, Ballard Street, 08-18-05
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"What will a child learn sooner than a song?" »Alexander Pope
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"In the depth of my soul there is a wordless song." »Kahlil Gibran
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"A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song." »Chinese Proverb
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"I could be whatever I wanted to be if I trusted that music, that song, that vibration of God that was inside of ME." »Shirley MacLaine
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"A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and sings it back to you when you have forgotten how it goes." »Unknown
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"When asked about his favorite song, I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it." »John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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"As a song-writer, I write from the heart, soul and mind, not from lies." »Alishia May
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"I like a beautiful song that tells you terrible things. We all like bad news out of a pretty mouth." »Tom Waits, Blood Money interviews
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"If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world." »J. R. R. Tolkien
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"Sooner of later that which is now life shall be poetry, and every fair and manly trait shall add a richer strain to the song." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"One ought every day at least to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words." »Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Unknown
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"One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if possible, speak a few reasonable words." »Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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"One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words." »Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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"My life has been one great big joke A dance that's walked A song that's spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke When I think about myself." »Maya Angelou
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"One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words." »Johann von Goethe
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"Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song,
A medley of extemporanea;
And love is thing that can never go wrong;
And I am Marie of Romania." »Dorothy Parker
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"Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea And love is a thing that can never go wrong And I am Marie of Roumania." »Dorothy Parker
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