Theme famous quotes
05-17-2025
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Every true writer is like a bird; he repeats the same song, the same theme, all his life. For me, this theme as always been revolt.
-- Alberto Moravia -
I hear filmmakers saying, 'I wanted to make to make a film about this issue, or this theme,' but I never start like that.
-- Andrea Arnold -
Working on the themes I was interested in, through the context of a particular family, was a very economical way of dealing with a lot of the issues I was concerned with.
-- Atom Egoyan -
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.
-- Brooke Shields -
I have so many themes I want to explore, so many questions I'd like to raise and develop, and hopefully, I'll get to do just that.
-- Catherine McCormack -
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
-- Charles Spurgeon -
I think the themes of belonging and parentage and love are obviously universal.
-- Christopher Eccleston -
I don't necessarily look for dark themes; they just seem to appear.
-- Clint Eastwood -
I started realising that the themes running through all of my novels were really haunting and obsessing me about my own life.
-- Dani Shapiro -
The theme of Death is to Poetry what Mistaken Identity is to Drama.
-- Dannie Abse -
I took part of Alan Silvestri's theme on the original [movie], which I really liked, and I pulled it into it new theme, which became kind of a hybrid. I really enjoyed that.
-- Danny Elfman -
I'm Godless. And so I've had to make my God, and my God is narrative filmmaking, which is -- ultimately what my God becomes, which is what my mantra becomes, is the theme.
-- Darren Aronofsky -
But honestly, if you do a rigorous survey of my work, I'll bet you'll find that biology is a theme far more often than physical science.
-- David Brin -
I'm interested in themes that endure from generation to generation.
-- David Guterson -
The theme of exile is attractive to me, because it's sort of like the family business. Not just music, but travel.
-- Elvis Costello -
If there is one abiding theme in the gym, it's the withering work in the ring. Those not fit do not survive.
-- Emanuel Steward -
You need a theme in a picture book just as much or maybe even more than you need it in a novel.
-- Eve Bunting -
Im also working on a track for Howard Hewett, and a theme for a new NPR show.
-- George Duke -
Our biggest single theme is trying to make the NIH work better with the same amount of money.
-- Harold E. Varmus -
Like Rodgers and Hammerstein, I'm not afraid to deal with themes about the ups and downs of life, yet which are still entertaining, and you still feel these stories.
-- Harvey Weinstein -
I think audiences can deal with these mature themes.
-- Harvey Weinstein -
Memory isn't a theme; it's part of the human condition.
-- Hilary Mantel -
I never found even in my juvenile hours that it was necessary to go a thousand miles in search of themes for moralizing.
-- Horace Walpole -
The finder of his theme will be at no loss for words.
-- J. V. Cunningham -
Any theology that is indifferent to the theme of liberation is not Christian theology.
-- James H. Cone -
The deepest, the only theme of human history, compared to which all others are of subordinate importance, is the conflict of skepticism with faith.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
Composers in the old days used to keep strictly to the base of the theme, as their real subject. Beethoven varies the melody, harmony and rhythms so beautifully.
-- Johannes Brahms -
What I write is very personal, but not autobiographical. It's more 'thematically personal' - what's up in my life in terms of themes at the moment.
-- Josh Radnor -
I have the same themes over and over again. How I'm saying it keeps changing or growing.
-- Joyce Tenneson -
You know it’s a bad sign when the theme song from Titanic describes your relationship.
-- Julia Spencer-Fleming -
The relation of this God with this man; the relation of this man with this God--this is the only theme of the Bible and of philosophy.
-- Karl Barth -
It is not extraordinary that the extraterrestrial origin of women was a recurrent theme of science fiction.
-- Kingsley Amis -
I hammer on a theme until I'm tired of it and the audience is tired of it.
-- Lewis Black -
I like the beauty of Faulkner's poetry. But I don't like his themes, not at all.
-- Manuel Puig -
One of my theme songs is that if you can't do it in a test tube, don't do it.
-- Martin Fleischmann -
Children surviving childhood is my obsessive theme and my life's concern,
-- Maurice Sendak -
Men prominent in life are mostly hard to converse with. They lack small-talk, and at the same time one doesn't like to confront them with their own great themes.
-- Max Beerbohm -
This theme of bigness — all painters and sculptors have dealt with it ever since.
-- Michael Heizer -
You can get anything from Mozilla Firefox-based themes to nature themes to your own photographs.
-- Mitchell Baker -
Fame is everywhere; the 15 minutes are now the dominant themes of our times.
-- Nick Mancuso -
Judaism is an intellectually based religion, and the single most important theme is that of study.
-- Norman Lamm -
The first thing I learned was the theme from Peter Gunn.
-- Pat Metheny -
Reality is far more complex and messy than many of the grander themes and explanations would have us believe.
-- Peter Dicken -
All animals are minor variations on a very particular theme.
-- Richard Dawkins -
If there's another thing that sportswriting teaches you, it is that there are no transcendent themes in life. In all cases things are here and they're over, and that has to be enough.
-- Richard Ford -
Ultimately, your #‎ theme will find you. You don't have to go looking for it.
-- Richard Russo -
If there's an enduring theme in my work, it's probably the effects of class on American life.
-- Richard Russo -
I worked a great deal then, as you can only do on a set theme, absolved from the obligation to find a new fact, a new subject every day.
-- Rico Lebrun -
Exploit a subject or a theme to its greatest potential by bringing all possible reference to bear - then put aside the reference and create again using the potential of your unfettered imagination.
-- Robert Genn -
I adore themes of hope and courage and the ways we find meaning through suffering.
-- Ruta Sepetys -
I like the stories with the historical themes.
-- Sarah Sutton -
Every broken lunatic needed a theme song.
-- Scott Nicholson -
I always try and come up with a clear theme when I'm making a videogame.
-- Shigeru Miyamoto -
Suffice to say that the theme (the WHAT of the movie) is going to determine the style (the HOW of the movie).
-- Sidney Lumet -
Change and renewal are themes in life, arent they? We keep growing throughout life.
-- Susan Minot -
There is a single theme behind all our work-we must reduce population levels,
-- Thomas Ferguson -
Media bias has been a favorite theme of the Right for decades, of course.
-- Thomas Frank -
After finishing the work I start rearranging the parts again and eventually start to work with themes - images and thoughts and things.
-- Tim Zuck -
It's like being at a theme park every time you go to a training session
-- Tom Daley -
A theme of digital success is keeping it simple.
-- Walter Isaacson -
The great themes of Canadian history are as follows: Keeping the Americans out, keeping the French in, and trying to get the Natives to somehow disappear.
-- Will Ferguson -
Love is the ultimate theme, but it's not just for women.
-- Will Smith -
The great thing about really heightened historical dramas is that they can convey much larger themes.
-- Cynthia Addai-Robinson -
When you can state the theme of a story, when you can separate it from the story itself, then you can be sure the story is not a very good one.
-- Flannery O'Connor -
There is no good scientific reason to bring back an extinct species. Why would one bring them back? To put them in a theme park?
-- Hendrik Poinar -
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.
-- John O'Hara -
The music in the movie [Everybody Loves Somebody] is very much hand-picked specifically because it's our history and our traditions. The themes are universal.
-- Karla Souza -
I want to take themes that are shared throughout the world, express them through animation, and make movies from them.
-- Mamoru Hosoda -
The specifics of the platform, I don`t think, are necessarily going to be written by Bernie Sanders, but the themes of the platform are going to be written by Bernie Sanders.
-- Steve Kornacki -
Of course, we talked about Westerns we like with [James Ransone in Valley of Violence] , but it was always thematically in relation to the movie and what the themes of the movie were.
-- Ti West -
For me writing and filmmaking is a therapeutic process. It reflects themes that I'm going through at a time in my life.
-- Mark Webber -
Our business is not to solve problems beyond our mortal powers, but to see to it that our thoughts are not unworthy of the great theme.
-- William Macneile Dixon -
You know it’s a bad sign when the theme song from Titanic describes your relationship.
-- Julia Spencer-Fleming
