central theme Quotes

The Union, and the Constitution, are the picture of silver, subsequently framed around it. The picture was not made to conceal or destroy the apple, but to adorn and preserve it. The picture was made for the apple-not the apple for the picture.

I think a good business book has one coherent idea that is richly played out.

The informing idea of what you want to say and do, that's what will take you from film school to professional - the idea. That's what is original to you.

We're always looking for the backbone, the central idea, and once you have that you know everything can circle around it.

The story is the first thing and the last thing.

In a movie like this, the relationship between the two guys is crucial. It sinks or swims on how these two guys are together. I think we did a good job.

I don't start with an idea or concept in the sense that I flesh out an idea or concept and set it at the center of something.

As far as standup, everybody has a vehicle they are driving. If what you do works, it's like playing golf. If you can master that one swing over and over again, you will be successful. That's what standup is. You have to have a central move and it has to be yours. You have to own your comedy, own what you do.

Even one word, or certainly one sentence, should be able to describe the basic characteristic that the scene has, or the character has, or the story has. And then you begin to detail that one spine, and you have offshoots from that spine, and it becomes more and more complex, but all of it stems from that one-word, one-line theme, which can give the character, the scene, or the play its uniqueness.

. . . the circumference of life cannot be rightly drawn until the center is set.

We need a moral philosophy in which the concept of love, so rarely mentioned now by philosophers, can once again be made central.

If we lose sight of people, we lose sight of the very purpose of leadership.

I've learned one general thing in filmmaking: to work with one strong idea. One strong concept that pushes you to work in a certain way artistically.

Disneyland is the star, everything else is in the supporting role.

I try to construct each of my novels around one central theme - core tensions shared by the characters.

Well, I think what's most important is the idea of something.

From the very beginning, I was clear that it would always be music for me.

In the first place, you must pay great attention to the key note.

What I'm identifying with is the vision or the idea - whatever was the little nugget that started it.

The fashions of the ages vary in this direction and that, but they vary for the most part from a central road which was struck out by the imagination of Greece.

The mystical life is at the centre of all that I do and all that I think and all that I write.

A subject which at first glance seems quite removed from the undeclared concern of the book can encapsulate that concern.

Loneliness is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man.

The music was always the thing that has been in our world.

I think that prog rock is the science fiction of music. Science fiction speculates on what the future might be and look like and how we'll get there, and yet there's always a central theme of humanity, or there should be. Progressive rock has the same concept of exploration into the parts of the music world that hasn't been explored.