Theme Quotes · Page 11

The crime fiction genre offers the writer infinite diversity of theme and treatment.

— Stanley Ellin

My stand-up shows don't really have a theme but do have an interactive element to them.

— Sean Lock

I was a pop star at one point, and I sang the 'Shaun The Sheep' theme.

— Vic Reeves

It's like being at a theme park every time you go to a training session

— Tom Daley

Themes on some TV shows are overdone. That 'Playhouse 90' theme music was an example.

— Henry Mancini

A musical theme once exhausted, finds its due refuge and repose in silence.

— Henri Frederic Amiel

I don't necessarily look for dark themes; they just seem to appear.

— Clint Eastwood

Obviously, the 'Rocky' theme is one of the most recognizable themes in film.

— Ludwig Goransson

If my work has a theme, I suspect it is a simple one: that most human beings are inescapably alone, and therein…

— Richard Yates

The original theme of 'Beauty and the Beast' is don't judge a book by its cover. Love what's inside.

— Jay Ryan

This is why fashion is such a magical part of our lives, for it inspires our decisions without dictating them; it sets…

— Simon Van Booy

I'm always trying to make people happy, that's really my theme on Vine. I always say I love life like crazy and…

— Jerome Jarre

E'er since, by faith, I saw the stream thy flowing wounds supply, redeeming love has been my theme, and shall be till…

— William Cowper

Michael had Neverland. It was his mission before Michael passed away to create a theme park, and we are taking over that…

— Joe Jackson

I went through puberty in a theme park. I'm grateful. That place was a landscape to me. I had adventures every day.

— Ryan Gosling

You can't have F1 without Ferrari - you just can't have it. It's part of the theme that is the red car,…

— Chris Rea

I have come to use the pan-Celtic history, which spans from 500 BC to the present, as a creative springboard. The music…

— Loreena McKennitt

I want to write about spiders. To me, this is the one theme that cuts right across and scares just about everybody.…

— Stephen King

Loneliness is a long, unbearable pain…There was never a place for me in the scheme of things…I had become a living fantasy…

— Dennis Nilsen

It's a common theme around the city of New Orleans; we're resilient people because we have to be. We love this place…

— Mitch Landrieu

I don't really wanna think about themes. I wanna just think about the experience of the movie. I feel like, as soon…

— Wes Anderson

Death is a big theme in the book, illness. What is that? It's a fact that human beings - no matter who…

— Mary Gaitskill

When I hear a man discoursing of virtue, or of any sort of wisdom, who is a true man and worthy of…

— Plato

Any material may be used but the theme is the same and the response is the same for all artwork... we all…

— Agnes Martin

I was on this boat in the middle of the ocean scuba diving for this film I did, and I was with…

— Gemma Arterton

We learnt a lot because we got in with real choreographers who tell you what they need from a song, because a…

— Eric Idle

I had seen "Force Majeure" and I just love that movie so much. And I really wanted to artistically give a little…

— Jill Soloway

I think all writers are always collecting characters as we go along. Not just characters of course, we're collecting EVERYTHING. Bits and…

— Alexandra Sokoloff

...we're in English class, which for most of us is an excruciating exercise in staying awake through the great classics of literature.…

— Libba Bray

I find it incredibly boring when people are mean about some individuals, especially if the individual has no power. I can understand…

— Dylan Moran

Even one word, or certainly one sentence, should be able to describe the basic characteristic that the scene has, or the character…

— William Shatner

Odonianism is anarchism. Not the bomb-in-the-pocket stuff, which is terrorism, whatever name it tries to dignify itself with, not the social-Darwinist economic…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

My theme this evening is that America needs a competitive dollar.

— Martin Feldstein

Some clergymen make a motto, instead of a theme, of their texts.

— Hosea Ballou

I'm also working on a track for Howard Hewett, and a theme for a new NPR show.

— George Duke

Every novel starts with a theme, and I am constantly looking for big ideas.

— Peter James

If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme.

— Pablo Picasso

Children surviving childhood is my obsessive theme and my life's concern,

— Maurice Sendak

A running theme in my life is my inability to say no to anything.

— David Pogue

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

— Tori Amos