Best 80 quotes in «theme quotes» category

All animals are minor variations on a very particular theme.

A memoir is a book about some particular thread or theme or moment in a person's life, whereas an autobiography is the entire life.

As an actor, I am meant to dabble with different themes and genres.

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

Any material may be used but the theme is the same and the response is the same for all artwork... we all have the same concern, but the artist must know exactly what the experience is. He must pursue the truth relentlessly

As Spectator I wanted to explore photography not as a question (a theme) but as a wound.

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

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

Diplomacy is like jazz: endless variations on a theme.

Each of my records has a different focus, a different theme.

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.

Glorious the song, when God's the theme.

Emasculation does seem to be a theme in the roles that I choose.

I'd say the biggest relationship is the repetition of certain themes. I don't want to say "topics," but certain points of interest.

Every (stressful thought) is a variation on a single theme: This shouldn't be happening. I shouldn't be having this experience. God is unjust. Life isn't fair.

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

If my life has had a theme, I suppose it has been a typical American theme in that, for most of it, I have been looking for happiness and success.

I get very driven by certain themes and ideas.

I like different shoes with different themes for different reasons.

I always try and come up with a clear theme when I'm making a videogame.

I never found even in my juvenile hours that it was necessary to go a thousand miles in search of themes for moralizing.

I hear filmmakers saying, 'I wanted to make to make a film about this issue, or this theme,' but I never start like that.

I'm just really old [in Doctor Strange]. Just really, really old. There is I suppose a sort of theme tune which I'm really interested in.

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

I've always been interested in themes of memory, paranoia, and revenge.

I was "Never Trump." But it turned out never republican was really the theme of this election.

Jokes do finish themselves. I really do see them as ongoing conversations about personal themes that I ruminate on.

I guess every superhero need his theme music.

It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.

I would like to sing the theme tune of a big film - something like 'Titanic'.

Memory isn't a theme; it's part of the human condition.

My models, my human figures, are never like extras in an interior. They are the main theme of my work. I depend absolutely on my model.

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.

Life is not a theme park, and if it is, the theme is death.

Obviously death is a theme I'm fascinated by.

One of my theme songs is that if you can't do it in a test tube, don't do it.

My songs have always been frustrating themes, relationships that I've had. And now that I'm in love, I expect it to be really happy, or at least there won't be half as much anger as there was.

One of the great themes in American literature is the individual's confrontation with the vast open spaces of the continent.

Pay attention to your visual themes.

New earths, new themes expect us.

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.

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

The comedian sticks as religiously to her theme as a dancer sticks to a diet.

Something brushed his leg, and he gazed down into the face of Pippi Tucker. The theme from Jaws raced through his head.

The first thing I learned was the theme from Peter Gunn.

The good thing about movies is that they're subjective. You can connect to different themes depending on your own perspective.

The Puritans' sense of priorities in life was one of their greatest strengths. Putting God first and valuing everything else in relation to God was a recurrent Puritan theme.

There are only a few notes. Just variations on a theme.

There is a theme that runs through my work, and that is: the toxic property of keeping secrets.

There are patterns which emerge in one's life, circling and returning anew, an endless variation of a theme