Top 960 Recurring Themes Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

The recurring question that anyone from Bihar gets is whether Patna has improved. I'm not interested in answering that question.

We're all filled with naturally recurring patterns that make us unique - they're called talents. And our charge is to bloody well use them.

What I do is give Ennio Morricone suggestions and describe to him my characters, and then, quite often, he'll possibly write five themes for one character. And five themes for another. And then I'll take one piece of one of them and put it with a piece of another one for that character or take another theme from another character and move it into this character.... And when I have my characters finally dressed, then he composes.

If he's choosing not to make a simple effort that would put you at ease and bring harmony to a recurring fight, then he doesn't respect your feelings and needs.

I have this recurring nightmare where I'm lost in a strange forest, and my only hope is your sense of direction. Enough to give a fellow the sweats, it is.

It's much easier to come back as a recurring character. Because you already know his traits and who he is and what he's about.

My father died prematurely at the age of 52 when I was 24, and it is a recurring regret that he never lived to see me succeed beyond university and drama.

It's a recurring thing: It's that I fall really deeply for bad relationships. It's just always been this way and not changing.

I play a recurring role for a character named Doctor Imo. I assist the villain and show up from time to time.

What can I but enumerate old themes?

Terrorist activity is continually recurring in various parts of the world, sowing death and destruction and plunging many of our brothers and sisters into grief and despair

The potential beauty of human life is constantly made ugly by man's ever-recurring song of retaliation.

I don't know how it's going for my sisters, but as my 40s and Verizon bills and mortgage payments roll on, I seem to have an ever more recurring 1950s housewife fantasy.

I have recurring dreams about losing my temper, which become quite violent. I dread to think what that says about me.

Unless there is a new mind there cannot be a new line, the old will go on repeating itself with recurring deadliness

A recurring image in the work of the Rossetti circle was that of a woman absorbed in self-contemplation, gazing into a mirror or combing her hair.

The passage of time is a continuing thing. At 18, youre going to live forever, and you are definitely not at 52, so that is a recurring topic. I still think its the main stuff.

I wrote the poems in Charms Against Lightning one by one, over almost a decade, and I did not write them toward any theme or narrative. But once I really got serious about putting together a book, I began to see that in fact there were themes across the poems, if only because my own obsessions had brought me back time and again to the same ground. I realized that any ordering of the poems would determine how those themes developed over the manuscript, and how the collection's dramatic conflicts were resolved.

The odd thing about recurring dreams is that, no matter how many times you dream the same thing, it always takes you by surprise.

At the heart of our friendly or purely social relations, there lurks a hostility momentarily cured but recurring by fits and starts.

A recurring dream probably merits close attention. Something wants you to pay attention.

Transformation, liberation and celebration are the themes of all my novels.

I have a recurring fantasy that one more article has been added to the Bill of Rights: the right to free access to imagination.

When God gives you some opportunities, it is almost like a process that you do not even realize what is recurring at the moment.

I tried to pay some small tribute to A Man and a Woman (1966) with the recurring musical theme.

A recurring theme in the literature of secular humanism is the harsh assault upon traditional religion, especially Christianity.

Goal scoring is a recurring theme. If you aren't scoring then you aren't going to win games. That's obvious.

As described in 'The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness,' the cyclical rebirth of caste in America is a recurring racial nightmare.

All that is born and destroyed is reborn in the sweep of the ages; Life like a decimal ever recurring repeats the old figure.

I had a recurring dream when I was younger where red foxes would chase me under tables. It was so weird. And I kept having the same dream.

In the survival of favoured individuals and races, during the constantly-recurring struggle for existence, we see a powerful and ever-acting form of selection.

I do want to do TV, but I'm looking to be a creator, writer, and producer, and perhaps I could be a recurring character. Do 10 shows a year, something like that.

I used to have a recurring black-and-white dream where I would drive in on a hover car and raid the shoe closets of this huge mansion. I don't know what that means at all, to be honest.

A related recurring theme is the exploration of how we take for granted the things in our immediate environment that are common and ordinary. Existential blindness, of sorts.

I told the doctor I was overtired, anxiety-ridden, compulsively active, constantly depressed, with recurring fits of paranoia. Turns out I'm normal.

I like the stories with the historical themes.

Americans have only the dimmest notion of what their constitutional freedoms are - and what it took to get them...[and] the willingness to surrender what we're supposed to be fighting for is a recurring part of our history.

That's been a huge recurring thing in growing up - allowing two things to exist in the same space even though, instinctively, they might not be designated to.

I got a chance to act in a film, 'Derailed.' I was having a recurring nightmare, and after doing that film, the nightmares stopped.

I have this recurring nightmare where I'm giving a speech in front of my old high school classmates, and they start laughing at me, and I look down and realize I'm naked. And a shark.

We have this recurring dream that we're human beings, that we have bodies, that we're in time and space, that there is birth and death. To awaken from the dream of life is to be conscious of eternity.

I wish I had the power to flip my reality upside down like an hourglass, and that life wasn't a finite affair, but rather a perpetually recurring passage through a hole in time.

My mother and I parting company at four years old is a recurring theme; although it's not symbolically necessarily present, it's present in all my relationships.

I have a recurring nightmare that I wake up in a gutter with nothing. I've had it all my life. That's why I work, I think.

In general, investors prefer companies to reward executives for producing recurring income, not one-time gains.

I think it's totally possible and plausible that racial balkanization is a recurring aspect of the nature of human politics.

Everybody knows that pestilences have a way of recurring in the world; yet somehow we find it hard to believe in ones that crash down on our heads from a blue sky.

All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible.

When you're a regular on a TV show, they give you more of a backstory, so with these recurring gigs, you have to make up your own backstory.

I have a recurring role on 'Person of Interest,' which is my husband's show. I play the love of his life. It was really fun to do that.

I get really restless when I haven't worked for a day and a half. I have a recurring dream that people are lined up next to my bed, waiting for autographs and taking pictures of me!

Every man's foremost task is the actualization of his unique, unprecedented and never-recurring potentialities, and not the repetition of something that another, and be it even the greatest, has already achieved.

The passage of time is a continuing thing. At 18, you're going to live forever, and you are definitely not at 52, so that is a recurring topic. I still think it's the main stuff.

A recurring ideal, I find, is that of simplicity. At times there comes the desire to write with great precision and clarity, words so simple and moving that they bring tears to the eyes.

I've always been a fan of issues around race and racialism, and I've loved playing with it. People act as though it isn't an issue, but it's a recurring theme in our lives globally.

The recurring theme which predisposes people to depression is rejection and lack of self-esteem.

You want a place where you can say that this is your show that you invested in with other actors, but there's also that flexibility of being a recurring actor.

I had found myself a new mission - and once more my recurring dilemma between corporate commercial needs and personal scientific ambitions was solved unexpectedly.

Any film is about heroism: the triumph of good over evil. If you look back at my films, you will see that as a recurring theme.

I have recurring nightmares about being in a Nazi concentration camp with all my family and constantly being sent to solitary confinement.