Theme Quotes

Africa, your sufferings have been the theme that has arrested & engaged my heart.

Any theology that is indifferent to the theme of liberation is not Christian theology.

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

You need a theme in a picture book just as much or maybe even more than you need it in a novel.

Critics have never been able to discover a unifying theme in my films. For thatmatter, neither have I.

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.

Worship is the grand theme of the Bible.

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

From Ennio [Morricone] I ask for themes that clothe my characters easily. He's never read a script of mine to compose the music, because many times he's composed the music before the script is ever written.

We weren't raised Muslim - we were born Muslim. I didn't go to a Muslim school, but it was just the theme song. It was ambient.

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

There is a single theme behind all our work-we must reduce population levels.

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.

The theme of Death is to Poetry what Mistaken Identity is to Drama.

My songs have always had frustrating themes - relationships I've had

The finder of his theme will be at no loss for words.

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.

Themes recur again and again in my work.

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.

I want to take themes that are shared throughout the world, express them through animation, and make movies from them.

I'm not saying it's a bad thing to do, but when you try to deal with prescient themes in the present, that is what you're doing.

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

Suffice to say that the theme (the WHAT of the movie) is going to determine the style (the HOW of the movie).

The best thing that can happen is for the theme to be nice and clear from the beginning.

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.

I guess my strongest recurring theme is honoring love, even when it's lost.

The Insignificance of Man is a congenial theme; my own insignificance is a sore point.

The theme of exile is attractive to me, because it's sort of like the family business. Not just music, but travel.

I really love writing themes and melody.

After finishing the work I start rearranging the parts again and eventually start to work with themes - images and thoughts and things.

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.

For me writing and filmmaking is a therapeutic process. It reflects themes that I'm going through at a time in my life.

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.

Im also working on a track for Howard Hewett, and a theme for a new NPR show.

Pay attention to your visual themes.

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

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.

I'm interested in themes that endure from generation to generation.

I think audiences can deal with these mature themes.

What can I but enumerate old themes?

Love's a recurring theme through my work.

You know it’s a bad sign when the theme song from Titanic describes your relationship.

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.

It's an improvisation on a theme. You know where you want to go, but you don't know how to get there. It's not linear.

Glorious the song, when God's the theme.

Ultimately, your theme will find you. You don't have to go looking for it.

Nothing new ever happens in the books. It's the same old theme.

I hammer on a theme until I'm tired of it and the audience is tired of it.

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.