Each nation has a theme: everything else is secondary. India's theme is religion.
If there's an enduring theme in my work, it's probably the effects of class on American life.
It's practically my subject, my theme: solitude and community; the weirdness and terrors of solitude: the stifling and consolations of community. Also, the consolations of solitude.
We talk eloquently about our commitment to the principles of Christianity, and yet our lives are saturated with the practices of paganism. We proclaim our devotion to democracy, but we sadly practice the very opposite of the democratic creed. . . . This strange dichotomy, this agonizing gulf between the ought and the is, represents the tragic theme of man's earthly pilgrimage.
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.
It took me a long time to put it to use in things, but the name of my publishing company is Nine Music, and "Red" became my theme song.
Im also working on a track for Howard Hewett, and a theme for a new NPR show.
A recurring theme in the literature of secular humanism is the harsh assault upon traditional religion, especially Christianity.
Working on the themes I was interested in, through the context of a particular family, was a very economical way of dealing with a lot of the issues I was concerned with.
Well I didn't actually see the Matrix but I've seen other movies where with similar sorts of themes.
They say great themes make great novels. but what these young writers don't understand is that there is no greater theme than men and women.
I have been struggling with mental illness and emptiness throughout my life. Now I want people to understand my glorious quest for the truth. Working on paintings is a process toward my artistic creation. It is a new spiritual theme of my whole philosophy for pursuing the truth. Each painting represents a process in all of my art.
A literary creation can appeal to us in all sorts of ways-by its theme, subject, situations, characters. But above all it appeals to us by the presence in it of art. It is the presence of art in Crime and Punishment that moves us deeply rather than the story of Raskolnikov's crime.
What can I but enumerate old themes?
Story is important but the most important is the theme and how you're going to convey theme cinematically. I'm a believer also.
There is a common theme, though, in the stories I have told, which are usually associations of characters or families that are formed outside of a family circle.
You can get anything from Mozilla Firefox-based themes to nature themes to your own photographs.
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.
A very powerful theme in fiction is that of loss.
There are themes that somehow stir me and that I find very interesting. They're themes that deal with leadership, the nature of bravery and courage, and how to define those.