Top 1200 Theme Quotes & Sayings - Page 8
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Last updated on December 12, 2024.
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.
The Russian yearning for the meaning of life is the major theme of our literature, and this is the real point of our intelligentsia's existence.
You need a theme in a picture book just as much or maybe even more than you need it in a novel.
I was wildly out of style when that television theme song suddenly pushed its way onto the Top Ten. It was certainly not the record company trying to make that happen.
I've never sat down and thought about the difference between plot and theme. To me, that's never been important.
Family is hugely important to me, because like I said, it takes a village to raise a child. That's my theme. That's how I really feel about life.
Big media are all about the angle, the spin. Look to the overarching theme that runs through each and every news story. Be hip to the meta-narrative peddled.
While I like people, I do also like being alone in a room and seeing what you can do with a particular theme or subject.
My favorite sci-fi always uses its hook to amplify some bigger theme or idea - some emotional thrust.
I've always had a thing for theme parks and their less-glorious cousins, amusement parks, the carnival midway, and others of such ilk.
Feminist art may... though perhaps our imaginations are so mutilated now that we are incapable even of the ambition, introduce a new theme... should we call it 'joy'?
I think the great unspoken theme in noir fiction is male self-pity. It pervades noir movies.
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.
I would like to do things like I did in Tanzania, going somewhere and exploring a theme and investigating as well as performing for those people.
I do like to make films with a political theme, but sometimes it's nice simply to make people laugh. That's the hardest thing to do in fact.
We try to do that for stories - we try to say, 'OK, here's the message, here's the theme, here's the good people and the bad.' Life is not nearly like that.
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.
The easiest way to propagandize people is to let a propaganda theme go in through an entertainment picture when people do not realize they are being propagandized.
I think the theme that I was attracted to in 'Beautiful Creatures' was you claim yourself. In my opinion, I think that's a really valid idea and I'm glad that that's our foundation.
You can't tell any kind of a story without having some kind of a theme, something to say between the lines.
Fewer people than you might think seem to have truly enjoyed their formative education and, for those who did not, one theme in particular recurs: the breathtaking cruelty of children.
I know how much embarrassment hurts, and I love it as a theme because you can keep digging a hole. It's just an endless well, embarrassment.
My book had a universal theme. It's not a "racial" novel. It portrays an aspect of civilization, not necessarily Southern civilization.
For my art, there is a common theme most of the time: it is using the things we can see to search for the world we cannot see.
My work has no theme. I don't care if my photographs get published, and I have no interest in the news. But the invasion of Prague was not news, it was my life.
The history of American art, in a way, begins with Jackson Pollock and his big paintings. This theme of bigness - all painters and sculptors have dealt with it ever since.
The most self-destructive thought that any person can have is thinking that he or she is not in total control of his or her life. That’s when, ‘Why me?’ becomes a theme song.
[Hillary Clinton] needs to accomplish a lot. She also has to provide a unifying theme for all the things she wants to do.
I hear filmmakers saying, 'I wanted to make to make a film about this issue, or this theme,' but I never start like that.
If there's one theme in all my work, it's about authenticity and self-expression. It's the idea that some things are, in some real sense, really you - or express what you and others aren't.
I never work with one inspiration in mind. I like to take things from everywhere and piece it together. It's never a theme or a trick.
I hammer on a theme until I'm tired of it and the audience is tired of it.
You know, usually with movies there are periods, dark areas, where I might not be getting what I wanted out of a theme. I'll have to go over and over it again.
However, there's no theme or concept behind Heathen, just a number of songs but somehow there is a thread that runs through it that is quite as strong as any of my thematic type albums.
Each of my records has a different focus, a different theme.
Something brushed his leg, and he gazed down into the face of Pippi Tucker. The theme from Jaws raced through his head.
I played, like, a year of piano until I learned the 'Pink Panther' theme. That was my goal. Once I was good enough, I quit. Now my music has to have some rock.
Religion theme aside, most of the time I'm in some sort of comedy and I'm a straight man and it's really just, let's wind this guy up and see him explode.
Investing in innovation, which was my broad theme talking to [Warren Buffett ], that included health vaccines, it included energy and education.
I have never found, in anything outside of the four walls of my study, an enjoyment equal to sitting at my writing desk with a clean page, a new theme, and a mind awake.
I hate being bored when I read a story. Even a well-trod theme can be made fresh by a different perspective or fresh writing.
For me, no matter what movie I make, no matter what the genre or the budget, they all have the same theme at their core: fear of death and happiness about living.
For me, I look at a project that has a story that's going to resonate in some way. It doesn't have to be about a message. It doesn't have to have some underlying theme of overwhelming importance.
Your life is a work of art, and in the end, the underlying theme of great art is bravery and hope and love.
It's based around a Jewish family but it really is a universal theme about getting along and coming along.
Sometimes I just play the theme from Arthur. It reminds me of my childhood in New York and I just love it.
Bob Altman got nothing from the TV series 'M*A*S*H,' and the royalties for the theme song went to his oldest son, Michael, who wrote it as a 15-year-old poet!
I speak of the current civilization and I consider her not as a symbol but as victim-victim, really, of the commercialization, of the falsification of this real world. That is my theme.
They say great themes make great novels. but what these young writers don't understand is that there is no greater theme than men and women.
I always have a sense of where I want to end each season, emotionally and relationship wise and with the theme, and I'm always able to hit that.
The themes in WordPress drive a lot of design trends. It democratizes design... You make a theme, and suddenly it's on hundreds and thousands of sites.
You're gonna find a common theme among my favorite beauty products: I don't like those little sheer things. If I'm putting makeup on, I want it to do the job quickly.
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.
It's all about theme and development anyway. That's what music is about.
I do not believe in adding enrichment merely for the sake of enrichment. Unless it adds clearness to the enunciation of the theme, it is undesirable, for it is very little understood.
This is the sum; my brethren, preach Christ, always and evermore. He is the whole gospel. His person, offices, and work must be our one great all-comprehending theme
There's always a theme I'm drawn to, that we humans are not good or bad. We're all a mixture of both. We can have great compassion or commit great violence.
There is not one text reference to characteristic Protestant religious life in these books... The dominant theme is the denial of religion as an actual part of American life.
Summer is the sweet spot of the movie-going season -- and it's also peak season for Six Flags theme parks.
A memoir is a book about some particular thread or theme or moment in a person's life, whereas an autobiography is the entire life.
