Quotes of: Theme-song Keyword

Mr. O'Donnell was at the library counter, performing the sort of grim rituals librarians perform with index cards and stumpy pencils and those rubber stamps with columns of rotating numbers. "Ms. Auerbach! What will it be today? Camus? Cervantes?" "A...

Anthropology of an American Girl

It was at a conference in Cyprus in 1976, where the theme was the rights of small nations, that I first met Edward Said. It was impossible not to be captivated by him: of his many immediately seductive qualities I will start by mentioning a very impo...

Hitch-22: A Memoir

In the twenty-first century, the visions of J.C. Nichols and Walt Disney have come full circle and joined. “Neighborhoods” are increasingly “developments,” corporate theme parks. But corporations aren’t interested in the messy ebb and flow ...

Some of My Best Friends Are Black: The Strange Story of Integration in America

I review my three boyfriends, the three men I slept with in my twenties, searching for a common thread. Nothing. No consistent features, coloring, stature, personality. But one theme does emerge: they all picked me. And then dumped me. I played the p...

Something Borrowed

Recall what used to be the theme of poetry in the romantic era. In neat verses the poet lets us share his private, bourgeois emotions: his sufferings great and small, his nostalgias, his religious or political pre-occupations, and, if he were English...

The Dehumanization of Art and Other Essays on Art, Culture and Literature

If we shadows have offended, Think but this, and all is mended, That you have but slumbered here While these visions did appear. And this weak and idle theme, No more yielding but a dream, Gentles, do not reprehend: If you pardon, we will mend: And, ...

A Midsummer Night's Dream

There are some themes, some subjects, too large for adult fiction; they can only be dealt with adequately in a children’s book. In adult literary fiction, stories are there on sufferance. Other things are felt to be more important: technique, style...

Philip Pullman

A properly educated leader, especially when harassed and under pressure, will know from his study of history and the classics that circumstances very much like those he is encountering have occurred from time to time on this earth since the beginning...

James B. Stockdale

Then what is good? The obsessive interest in human affairs, plus a certain amount of compassion and moral conviction, that first made the experience of living something that must be translated into pigment or music or bodily movement or poetry or pro...

Tennessee Williams

Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Civil Disobedience and Other Essays

Some days, the music is not in tune, but it's always a song worth singing. That's the best description of a good marriage I've ever heard...

The Collector

Now Autumn's fire burns slowly along the woods and day by day the dead leaves fall and melt.

Day and night songs

Be prepared. A dog is adorable and noble. A dog is a true and loving friend. A dog is also a hedonist.

Dog Songs

I groan but answer the call in a sing song voice. "Kitty Lung, hero or terrorist, you take your pick.

Dragons Are People, Too

He had a clear, lyrical voice and his songs remained in her ears long after the music had ended.

Eight Million Gods and Demons

All good things originate with the Creator God, he'd been taught, and the Song of Life was no exception.

Éire's Captive Moon

An enemy is like a man's most prized flower. It brings him joy to see it buried in the ground.

Echoes of the Great Song

Sometimes a little song is sweet to hear, even if the orchestra is more accomplished

Educating Esmé: Diary of a Teacher's First Year

...loving a fairy lady with a magic song will leave you desolate on a cold hillside ... but from there you can see the stars...

A Familiar Rain

I'm just a notch on your bedpost but you're just a line in a song.

Fall Out Boy: From Under the Cork Tree

When the gratitude of many to one throws away all shame, we behold fame.

The Gay Science: with a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs