Theme Quotes

To me I think artists in general make a statement - and for the rest of their lives - every album, every book - are variations on a theme.

If there's an enduring theme in my work, it's probably the effects of class on American life.

I do not have one theme for each season, I just try to make beautiful clothes all year round.

The truth is often terrifying, which I think is one of the motifs of Larry and Andrew's cinema. The cost of knowledge is an important theme. In the second and third films, they explore the consequences of Neo's choice to know the truth. It's a beautiful, beautiful story.

A theme in a lot of my books - and in my own life - is making choices that you feel you should make, or what society wants you to make, as opposed to what is truly right for you.

It's a very tough time for the playwright. Broadway has become almost a musical comedy theme park with all these long-running shows.

There is something universal in the theme of a man trying to save his family in the midst of the most terrible circumstances. It is not limited to Sierra Leone. This story could apply to any number of places where ordinary people have been caught up in political events beyond their control.

There's little kids on trains coming up to me, singing my theme song, and they can barely walk.

To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme. No great and enduring volume can ever be written on the flea, though many there be that have tried it.

At the time the world was all upside down. The American people were beginning to move around a lot. The old hometown ties had been pretty much broken. The theme of Farmer Takes a Wife appealed to people. Everybody was homesick. And it sold and sold and sold.

And indeed this theme has been at the centre of all my research since 1943, both because of its intrinsic fascination and my conviction that a knowledge of sequences could contribute much to our understanding of living matter.

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

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.

There is a common theme, though, in the stories I have told, which are usually associations of characters or families that are formed outside of a family circle.

The theme is the theme of humiliation, which is the square root of sin, as opposed to the freedom from humiliation, and love, which is the square root of wonderful.

I've never sat down and thought about the difference between plot and theme. To me, that's never been important.

Everyone is looking for connections between the songs. I don't usually approach a record as a concept. There's no overriding theme I'm trying to represent. It's all about the individual songs.

Love is the ultimate theme, but it's not just for women.

The theme for me is love and the lack of it. We all want that and we don't know how to get it, and everything we do is some kind of attempt to capture it for ourselves.

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

And our big theme has been, you have made so much progress, we urge you on with the openings and market openings that have occurred. They clearly work and continuing on that path will produce further growth and further opportunities for the Indian people.

But more than anything I kind of pride myself in continuing the process that we're trying to accomplish, and that's just to get better and work on my fundamentals. So that's been kind of in the theme now for a couple years and we stuck with it and that's kind of what I want to keep doing.

In Ski Party we are reading up on how to have fun without sex. That was the theme of every AIP picture!

My abiding theme is separations.

'Dilbert' became popular during the downsizing of the '90s, and job security was a major theme of the strip.

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.

The President, the Administration and the campaign need a theme. I am concerned that the President is seen as a tactician without an overall strategy of his plan for the country.

I did a cover of the James Bond theme, and I felt like such a fraud, because the original is so good.

A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.

In all love stories the theme is love and tragedy, so by writing these types of stories, I have to include tragedy.