Theme Quotes
Jokes do finish themselves. I really do see them as ongoing conversations about personal themes that I ruminate on.
When I'm creating characters, I definitely think of theme songs. Writing for me is very visual, so I sometimes think of it in terms of a movie with a soundtrack, and try to transfer that to words.
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.
Summer is the sweet spot of the movie-going season -- and it's also peak season for Six Flags theme parks.
I was praying about what I needed to teach. I felt it wasn't time to move out of the theme of Romans, which is salvation by grace through faith.
Everybody has a theme. You talk to somebody awhile, and you realize they have one particular thing that rules them. The best you can do is a variation on the theme, but that's about it.
I like working on action films, and I like working on movies that are comic book based, or that have this theme, because they're things I watched or loved as a kid.
I love that as a theme for women: Stop standing by! You've got to make stuff happen! You've got to create your own world because if you let other people do it, they're going to just screw you.
When you pick up a script you want to do you generally have a theme you're trying to work with, and then it expands from that.
Wherever my story takes me, however dark and difficult the theme, there is always some hope and redemption, not because readers like happy endings, but because I am an optimist at heart.
I tend not to know what the plot is or the story is or even the theme. Those things come later, for me.
To be influenced by a magazine and, say, a Swedish theme, unless it resonates with you, it seems kind of odd and influenced.
You can get anything from Mozilla Firefox-based themes to nature themes to your own photographs.
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 did a cover of the James Bond theme, and I felt like such a fraud, because the original is so good.
The idea was I'd never amount to anything in music, The theme there was that I was talented, but I wouldn't work hard enough to do anything with it.
The New Testament picks up from the Old the theme that God intends, in the end, to put the whole creation to rights.
In terms of 'Solaris,' I didn't really think about the religious aspect an awful lot. There's one scene at a dinner party, and it's discussed, but it wasn't an overwhelming theme for me.
In all love stories the theme is love and tragedy, so by writing these types of stories, I have to include tragedy.
Sometimes I just play the theme from Arthur. It reminds me of my childhood in New York and I just love it.
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.
Lots of people think things would be better some other way. That's why the world's lousy with theme parks.
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.
Reality is far more complex and messy than many of the grander themes and explanations would have us believe.
That's a big battle to win, to be able to do a main title sequence and a theme song these days. That's not something network television does anymore.
And of course, in my writing, there is the constant theme of music, love of, preoccupation with, music. Music is the single thread making my life into a coherency.
The plain truth is that the only consistent theme in advertising is the absence of any consistent theme.
Well, it's funny because, "The Green Leaves of Summer" and "The Alamo" theme are the same thing. There's just - the Brothers Four was a different recording of it.
I love theme parks but I'm a real chicken on rides. I'd rather invent scary rides for my books than go on them for real.
I paint according to the moment and the theme. I don't have any prejudice. Life concerns me.
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.
If there's an enduring theme in my work, it's probably the effects of class on American life.
When I look back over my novels what I find is that when I think I'm finished with a theme, I'm generally not. And usually themes will recur from novel to novel in odd, new guises.
Give me a theme," the little poet cried, "And I will do my part," "'Tis not a theme you need," the world replied; "You need a heart.
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.
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.
The song How do you like me now? By Toby Keith will be my personal theme song when I attend my first high school reunion.
We can ask for a dream of guidance on any issue that is facing us, and when we're lucky the dream can take us out of the boxes of the everyday mind's approach to that theme.
Well I didn't actually see the Matrix but I've seen other movies where with similar sorts of themes.
I was detained a couple of times but that was for not handing in homework because I was playing golf or not present because I was playing golf. There was a theme evolving.
Shambhala existed in Tibet and has been continued over the years, and now it is in the West. At its core, it is very much dedicated to the basic theme of benefiting others.