Theme Quotes

I think doing variations on a classical theme is a dangerous thing to do.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The English countryside, its growth and its destruction, is a genuine and tragic theme.

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.

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.

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

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

Ultimately, your theme will find you. You don't have to go looking for it.

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.

If a theme or idea is too near the surface, the novel becomes simply a tract illustrating an idea.

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

I had to do this very aggressive, big score in a very short time, and knowing that in the beginning, middle, and end would be this very, very famous theme, but I still had to weave a score around it and make it work as a score was really challenging.

The whole theme of Interview with the Vampire was Louis's quest for meaning in a godless world. He searched to find the oldest existing immortal simply to ask, What is the meaning of what we are?

Then a friend of Jim's suggested we make a theme song to explain the story, and this is where the Mads came from. Josh and I wrote it into the theme song.

I'm singing the music publisher's theme song - it ain't a commercial.