Let it be understood, in the first place, that a science fiction story must be an exposition of a scientific theme and it must be also a story.
Hugo Gernsback

Love's a recurring theme through my work.
Tracy Chapman

My abiding theme is separations.
Judith Rossner

My secret ambition was always to provide music for animation films: something with an Indian theme, either a fairy tale or mythological tale or on the Krishna theme. I still have a very deep desire, but these sorts of chances don't always come.
Ravi Shankar

My theme for philanthropy is the same approach I used with technology: to find a need and fill it.
An Wang

My theme this evening is that America needs a competitive dollar.
Martin Feldstein

Never preach a sermon without a text from the Bible, a text containing the theme which you can elaborate. The text is the best proof in support of your argument. A sermon without a text is an argument without a proof.
Isaac Mayer Wise

New York is a theme park for people with IQs over 108.
Doug Coupland

Obsession led me to write. It's been that way with every book I've ever written. I become completely consumed by a theme, by characters, by a desire to meet a challenge.
Anne Rice

One of my favorite songs from the album is a song called 'For Better or Worse,' and it's basically about unconditional love, which is, I'd say, an ongoing theme in my personal life.
Debbie Gibson

One of my theme songs is that if you can't do it in a test tube, don't do it.
Martin Fleischmann

Only the most acute and active animals are capable of boredom. - A theme for a great poet would be God's boredom on the seventh day of creation.
Lewis Cass

Our theme for this year's festivities, Dreams and Challenges of Asian Pacific Americans, speaks to the many generations of Asian Pacific Americans who worked hard to overcome economic hardship, racism and other barriers in their pursuit of the American dream.
Lucille Roybal-Allard

Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion... the subject must be something you truly love or truly hate.
Dorothea Lange

Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.
Woodrow Wilson

The aging of the U.S. population is a theme that we believe strongly in and the health care sector is really right in the bulls eye of this particular theme.
John Zimmerman

The beauty of a main title is that you establish your main theme and maybe a bit of your secondary theme. You plant the seed that you're going to go water later in the score. And so, having that removed just made it so much more difficult.
Danny Elfman

The difference of the degrees in which the individuals of a great community enjoy the good things of life has been a theme of declaration and discontent in all ages.
William Herschel

The English countryside, its growth and its destruction, is a genuine and tragic theme.
E. M. Forster

The first thing I learned was the theme from Peter Gunn.
Pat Metheny