Safe Theme Quotes & Sayings

Composition in photography is almost as varied as composition in music or words
melodic or atonal, safe or daring
and can enhance subject, theme, and style. Every photograph you take involves you in some compositional decision, even if this is simply where to set up the camera or when to press the button. — Michael Langford

A lot of writers dwell on their relationships with their mothers, but only a few are worth reading. — Kathryn Harrison

We imitate each other with slavish devotion and our most strenuous efforts are put forth to try to say the same thing that everyone around us is saying - and yet to find an excuse for saying it, some little safe variation on the approved theme or, if no more, at least a new illustration. — A.W. Tozer

I think it hurt my performance because I stopped being me. That won't ever happen again. — Christopher Darden

Long tresses down to the floor can be beautiful, if you have that, but learn to love what you have. — Anita Baker

The journalists think that they cannot say too much in favor of such "improvements" in husbandry; it is a safe theme, like piety;but as for the beauty of one of these "model farms," I would as lief see a patent churn and a man turning it. They are, commonly, places merely where somebody is making money, it may be counterfeiting. — Henry David Thoreau

If theme parks, with their pasteboard main streets, reek of a bland, safe, homogenized, whitebread America, the Renaissance Faire is at the other end of the social spectrum, a whiff of the occult, a flash of danger and a hint of the erotic. Here, they let you throw axes. Here are more beer and bosoms than you'll find in all of Disney World. - Neil Steinberg, Chicago Sun-Times — Rachel Lee Rubin

Architects have to dream. We have to search for our Atlantises, to be explorers, adventurers, and yet to build responsibly and well. — Renzo Piano

The dead have come to take the living. The dead in winding-sheets, the regimented dead on horseback, the skeleton that plays the hurdy-gurdy. — Don DeLillo

The distinction between rich nations and poor nations is one of the great dominant political and international themes of our century. — Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson Of Lodsworth

Your love is as stable as you are: It's not about how good a person makes you feel, but rather what good you can do for them. — Criss Jami

Love is a positive, symbiotic, reciprocal flow between two or more entities. — Inga Muscio

I think it's safe to say that 'manliness' was a common theme in my upbringing. It was an assumed status, but - and here's the important bit - it was the Rudyard Kipling kind. The emphasis was on gentlemanly conduct, sportsmanship, fairness and stoicism. — Ian Watson

The image of a cleanly, self-possessed man exploiting his solitude was not easy to come by, but then he had not expected that it would be. — John Cheever