Top 1200 Theme Quotes & Sayings - Page 5
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Last updated on December 12, 2024.
If there is a single theme that dominates all my writings, all my obsessions, it is that of memory-because I fear forgetfulness as much as hatred and death.
There seems to be a theme running through the women I play. They take their circumstances and try to make the best of them.
Louis Malle was the best filmmaker I've ever worked with. He was such an artist. He was dealing with the theme of innocence and experience.
A theme I'm obsessed with is the tension between human nature and the frameworks designed to curb the worst and promote the best of it.
I thought I would reflect here on a theme most scientists enjoy recalling: the part luck played in their accomplishments.
If my work has a theme, I suspect it is a simple one: that most human beings are inescapably alone, and therein lies their tragedy.
Our biggest single theme is trying to make the NIH work better with the same amount of money.
There is one universal truth: All women, all over the world, want to look beautiful. That is always the theme of my designs.
[H]istory is a melodrama on the theme of parasitism, characterized by scenes that are exciting or dull, as the case may be, and many a sudden stagetrick.
Trained as a musician, [photographer Ansel] Adams understood the richness of variation that could be unfolded from a simple theme.
We're a very expensive group; we break a lot of rules. It's unheard of to combine opera with a rock theme, my dear .
The American people in my view will never support a candidate whose major theme is bigotry.
I think any writer keeps going back to some basic theme. Sometimes it's autobiographical. I guess it usually is.
My models, my human figures, are never like extras in an interior. They are the main theme of my work. I depend absolutely on my model.
When the news wants to tell you something is important, they put dramatic theme music behind it. They scare you into watching the story.
If there's a theme in my work, it's that I like to focus on smart people who are facing oppression and who are fighting back against it.
I went through puberty in a theme park. I'm grateful. That place was a landscape to me. I had adventures every day.
Claustrophobia is a theme that I feel is really rife in 'Sound of my Voice' and struggling to come up for air from that feeling.
Why are some things remembered and others forgotten? That is the theme I want to pursue about the Second World War.
There’s little kids on trains coming up to me, singing my theme song, and they can barely walk.
My job ranges from creating the initial overall theme of the season, to developing fabrics and sketching to sampling and fitting.
Incorporating travel, elements from different cultures and locales, is a great way to establish the overall tone and theme for a soiree.
There are a lot of westerns that deal with people standing up for their principles, and that is the predominant theme that has been in my films.
I tried to pay some small tribute to A Man and a Woman (1966) with the recurring musical theme.
If a life can have a 'theme-song' - and I believe every worthwhile one has - mine is [best] expressed in one word: Individualism.
The unconscious obsession that we photographers have is that wherever we go we want to find the theme that we carry inside ourselves.
I always knew what I thought the theme was, the core, in one word. In 'The Godfather' it was succession. In 'The Conversation' it was privacy. In 'Apocalypse' it was morality.
While apartheid was in operation, the set-up was a gift for writers if you were looking for a big theme.
You don't believe in organized religion, yet a major theme in so many of your works seems to be a quest for God.
The New Testament picks up from the Old the theme that God intends, in the end, to put the whole creation to rights.
Editing is such a voyeuristic treat for me. I land on a theme and ask authors to pen works that fit the topic.
That's kind of the theme of Own the Night. It's about those nights that are so memorable you could live them forever.
I loved 'Midnight Express' and how 'Chase' had this dark urge to it, like the 'Scarface' theme tune.
If there is an abiding theme in 'The Pursuit of Happiness,' it is the idea that you come into the world already shaped by other people's past histories.
The key to - and magic of - good campaigns is when you pull people together. You unite them around a common theme.
I'd like to keep doing film and TV, and I definitely can appreciate a good theme song. If it's memorable, that's a great thing.
The theme of exile is attractive to me, because it's sort of like the family business. Not just music, but travel.
The anti-Japanese resistance was as familiar a theme in North Korean cinema as cowboys and Indians was in early Hollywood.
The theme of 'Charlotte's Web' is that a pig shall be saved, and I have an idea that somewhere deep inside me there was a wish to that effect.
Have an objective to give your bender a theme. For instance, stalking and killing a wild pig with a bowie knife.
I like to create what I call 'tablescapes.' It's so much more fun when you organize your table around a theme, don't you think?
The deepest, the only theme of human history, compared to which all others are of subordinate importance, is the conflict of skepticism with faith.
Every (stressful thought) is a variation on a single theme: This shouldn't be happening. I shouldn't be having this experience. God is unjust. Life isn't fair.
One big theme for me is that we have got to move from an economy built on debt to one where we save and invest in the future.
I suspect that the theme, the nature of the characters, and the method of getting from the beginning of the play to the end is already established in the unconscious.
Whenever I write, I try and approach my stories from some kind of universal theme or idea or emotion.
In Ski Party we are reading up on how to have fun without sex. That was the theme of every AIP picture!
There's usually room in the theme parks business for efficiencies on the cost side and new investment, which drives traffic.
Innovation is the running theme and spirit of the policies adopted by the Chinese government, and it is the banner that we will always hold high.
All animals are to be found in men and each of theme exists in some man, sometimes several at the time.
I've got songs that sample 'Mario Bros.,' 'Charlie Brown,' the 'Rugrats' theme, the music that plays when you turn on a Gamecube.
What I like in novels that I read and enjoy is interplay of theme: the mystery of how we seem to be so separate as human beings.
I believe that whenever an overall view or theme is applied to an entire industry, bad decisions will be made.
One year, my family and I dressed up in the theme of 'Wizard of Oz' for Halloween. We all went as the different characters. I was the Tin Man!
Milkshake' was my theme song as soon as it came out. I think I was 13. I just love Kelis. Full stop.
There's little kids on trains coming up to me, singing my theme song, and they can barely walk.
In theory I know that if you have a universal theme and a good story told well, it will work everywhere.
Find out what's keeping them up nights and offer hope. Your theme must be an answer to their fears
I think death is a crucial element when designing games around the theme of the satisfaction of overcoming overwhelming odds.
There are moments when you feel trapped, ill at ease. A year later the same feeling can turn out to be the theme of a book.
