Theme Quotes · Page 27

I tend not to know what the plot is or the story is or even the theme. Those things come later, for…

— Michael Ondaatje

I think that critiquing the myths of our society and helping people find their way through them is a very important thing.…

— Sam Keen

Tween programming is so retro that the shows even have theme songs, something the quest for more commercial time drove out of…

— Jonathan Dee

Horror films and genre films are interesting, because I always look for a deeper meaning or a deeper theme in the film.

— Katee Sackhoff

The reason that Shaft has a dominant theme song is because James Bond has a dominant theme song.

— Cheo Hodari Coker

And of course, in my writing, there is the constant theme of music, love of, preoccupation with, music. Music is the single…

— Philip K. Dick

The Russian yearning for the meaning of life is the major theme of our literature, and this is the real point of…

— Nikolai Berdyaev

Our biggest single theme is trying to make the NIH work better with the same amount of money.

— Harold E. Varmus

Stories, as much as we like to talk about them, retrospectively, as emanations of theme or worldview or intention, occur primarily as…

— George Saunders

The idea that we cause harm by doing what we perceive to be the right thing, that's another theme that interests me.…

— Andrew McCarthy

My earliest memory is nursing and struggling to see the colored lights making up the map of the world, the famous backdrop…

— Ronan Farrow

If a person just takes what is socio-political and geographical from the themes of my films then that's not enough. But if…

— Elia Suleiman

You can find many philosophy papers on the themes of 'love' and 'friendship,' most of which are cheerful and somewhat anodyne; you…

— Catherine Wilson

The best diet for overall health, and specifically for heart, brain, and cancer risk reduction, is a diet that's aggressively low in…

— David Perlmutter

“You're getting to be a big boy; and while I'm gone, you'll be the man of the family. I want you to…

— Fred Gipson

We chose the most interesting image available to us to illustrate the theme of the cover, which is what we always try…

— Jon Meacham

Once an interesting idea or theme occurs to me then I would want to write a poem about it. The rest, frankly,…

— Ama Ata Aidoo

It's important to be vigilant at all stages of the making of a film. The theme of a work should be represented…

— Maimouna Doucoure

I think the great unspoken theme in noir fiction is male self-pity. It pervades noir movies.

— James Ellroy

I waited for the idea to consolidate, for the grouping and composition of themes to settle themselves in my brain.

— Claude Monet

Sometimes with good writers you don't spot the theme, but when you come away you realise there has been one.

— Prunella Scales

Though the Bible was written over sixteen centuries by at least forty authors, it has one central theme-salvation through faith in Christ.

— Max Lucado

Belarus is a closed, authoritarian system, and the theme of Chernobyl is also a closed topic.

— Svetlana Alexievich

There are themes that somehow stir me and that I find very interesting. They're themes that deal with leadership, the nature of…

— Stephen Lang

The 'Occupy' movement seems to have found a central theme to its 2012 movement around overturning 'the corporation as a person,' and…

— John Battelle

View your burden as a gift. It's the theme that has been given you to work with. Accept that and lean into…

— Anne Tyler

I have so many themes I want to explore, so many questions I'd like to raise and develop, and hopefully, I'll get…

— Catherine McCormack

If I can't find a theme, I can't make a film anyone else will feel. I can't laugh at intellectual humor. I'm…

— Walt Disney

[Hillary Clinton] needs to accomplish a lot. She also has to provide a unifying theme for all the things she wants to…

— Tamara Keith

This is the sum; my brethren, preach Christ, always and evermore. He is the whole gospel. His person, offices, and work must…

— Charles Spurgeon

We zero in on family as a theme because it makes the movies emotionally available to a universal audience.

— Craig Zadan

Working on the themes I was interested in, through the context of a particular family, was a very economical way of dealing…

— Atom Egoyan

There are occasionally eureka moments - off the top of my head, maybe Darth Vader's theme, you know, the imperial march.

— John Williams

There's practical political considerations obviously, but there's also these broader themes, which is like, I don't want to be the manager of…

— Jeffrey Goldberg

The theme of the 'Tana Talk' series was I wanted to let everyone know who I was. I wanted my authenticity to…

— Benny the Butcher

Depending on where you live and how you travel - whether you drive or bus or whatever - your experiences may be…

— Tatyana Fazlalizadeh

My themes will not be far-fetched. I will tell of homely every-day phenomena and adventures.

— Henry David Thoreau

I suspect that the theme, the nature of the characters, and the method of getting from the beginning of the play to…

— Edward Albee

The media thinks that you have to make science sexy and concentrate on themes such as rivalry and the human issues.

— James Dyson

'Dilbert' became popular during the downsizing of the '90s, and job security was a major theme of the strip.

— Scott Adams