Subjects famous quotes
05-13-2025
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I like my subjects to be American, and not too dead, so I can interview people who knew them.
-- A. Scott Berg -
Very often we developed a better grasp of the subjects than the over worked teachers.
-- Albert Bandura -
For me, photography is as much about the way I respond to the subject as it is about the subject itself.
-- Alec Soth -
Maximum security exists concerning the subject of UFOs.
-- Allen Dulles -
Nothing that surrounds us is object, all is subject.
-- Andre Breton -
Experience has shown that the more fascinating the subject, the less observant the photographer.
-- Andreas Feininger -
Although I never publicly defended promiscuity, I never publicly attacked it. I attempted to avoid the subject, in part because I felt, and often still feel, unable to live up to the ideals I really hold.
-- Andrew Sullivan -
I don't pick subjects as much as they pick me.
-- Andy Rooney -
I'm evangelical on the subject of some chefs and writers.
-- Anthony Bourdain -
That rule is the better which is exercised over better subjects.
-- Aristotle -
Dead is when the chemists take over the subject.
-- Arthur Leonard Schawlow -
I write of love and death. What other subjects are there?
-- Arthur Schnitzler -
No one writes anything worth writing, unless he writes entirely for the sake of his subject.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer -
That which knows all things and is known by none is the subject.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer -
The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write about it.
-- Benjamin Disraeli -
I just don't think one person has that much to contribute to any subject
-- Bernice Johnson Reagon -
This is the end of this subject for me for a long time.
-- Bill Belichick -
Love or not, I wouldn't subject a wife to the road. It's punishment.
-- Billy Strayhorn -
This is a super masticated subject, and it is time to spit it out.
-- Boris Johnson -
There's always a learning curve, where you've got to learn what your subject is all about.
-- Brad Gilbert -
Ignorance breeds fear; the more you learn about your subject, the less fear it holds for you.
-- Brian Tracy -
I like to read about subjects unrelated to my work, especially history.
-- Bruno Tonioli -
On the whole, God’s love for us is a much safer subject to think about than our love for Him.
-- C. S. Lewis -
I punched to line. "Yes? What?" "Norville. It's Cormac. If you don't change the subject right now, I'm going to have to go over there and have a word with you.
-- Carrie Vaughn -
Mental violence is as bad as physical violence. You don't see that very often in movies, so it was a good subject to tackle.
-- Chazz Palminteri -
I can't think of a subject that is taboo for me, unless it's one I simply don't know anything about.
-- Chris Crutcher -
Nothing is so loved by tyrants as obedient subjects.
-- Clarence Darrow -
A woman confronting men is a proper subject, it is inexhaustible.
-- Claude Chabrol -
I have been insane on the subject of money-making all my life.
-- Cornelius Vanderbilt -
Any good biography has to got to lead you to the work. Many biographers have started out in love with their subjects and ended up hating them.
-- D. T. Max -
Speaking to the subject is the most overrated thing in journalism,
-- David Remnick -
There is no such thing as a completely original technique or subject.
-- Donald Lambert -
In any really good subject, one has only to probe deep enough to come to tears.
-- Edith Wharton -
If your subjects are eternal... they'll survive.
-- Elliott Erwitt -
writers do not choose their subjects; their subjects choose them.
-- Erica Jong -
I never had to choose a subject - my subject rather chose me.
-- Ernest Hemingway -
To me there is no such thing as creative writing. It's either good writing, whatever the subject, or it's not creative.
-- Erskine Caldwell -
The world is given to me only once, not one existing and one perceived. Subject and object are only one.
-- Erwin Schrodinger -
The State, in short, subjects people, whereas Society associates them voluntarily.
-- Felix Morley -
I am my own muse. I am the subject I know best. The subject I want to better.
-- Frida Kahlo -
Worthy or not, my life is my subject, and my subject is my life.
-- Giacomo Casanova -
Sex was a great no-no for Americans, so that was obviously an attraction to the writers, and since sex is a great part of most people's lives, it's a great subject.
-- Gore Vidal -
I also take it as granted that every created thing, and consequently the created monad also, is subject to change, and indeed that this change is continual in each one.
-- Gottfried Leibniz -
Real freedom isn't subject to how others estimate our value; it is in realizing that none are free who find their sense of worth wondering how others measure their lives.
-- Guy Finley -
There are no dull subjects. There are only dull writers.
-- H. L. Mencken -
Anytime you put a movie out it's subject to such scrutiny and such criticism.
-- Halle Berry -
I know for me the subject of how to be in a relationship is precious and complicated and challenging.
-- Helen Hunt -
Nothing is too small a subject for prayer, because nothing is too small to be the subject of God's care.
-- Henry Thomas Hamblin -
It's important to let your subjects be themselves.
-- Herb Ritts -
However fake the subject, once photographed, it's as good as real.
-- Hiroshi Sugimoto -
Change but the name, and you are the subject of the story.
-- Horace -
The Methodists love your big sinners, as proper subjects to work upon.
-- Horace Walpole -
You keep on balancing and balancing and balancing until the picture wins, because then the subject's turned into the picture.
-- Howard Hodgkin -
A painting is finished when the subject comes back, when what has caused the painting to be made comes back as an object.
-- Howard Hodgkin -
Your subjects have had a history - try to reveal it in your picture.
-- Howard Pyle -
Project your mind into your subject until you actually live in it.
-- Howard Pyle -
Ignorance of certain subjects is a great part of wisdom.
-- Hugo Grotius -
A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it.
-- Ida Tarbell -
No matter what the subject, the subject is always love.
-- Ingrid Bengis -
You're not going to get any true confessions out of me," she said. "I'm a Leo, and our thing is changing the subject.
-- Ira Levin -
The nude, if you tackle it, is a very fascinating subject, especially for a woman.
-- Isabel Bishop -
The nature of love is that it catches you off-guard, subjects you to rules you have never faced, some of them contradictory.
-- Ivan Doig -
Pain is truth; all else is subject to doubt.
-- J. M. Coetzee -
Drop the whole subject and put it out of your mind and let your subconscious do its thing.
-- James Webb Young -
A wild creature is not subject to any will except its own
-- Jay Griffiths -
American pictures usually have no subject, only a story. A pretty woman is not a subject. Julia Roberts doing this and that is not a subject.
-- Jean-Luc Godard -
Pick up a rifle and you change instantly from a subject to a citizen.
-- Jeff Cooper -
What I do is try to stay away from the hot subjects.
-- Jerry Bruckheimer -
The subject says: I see first many things which dance... then everything gradually becomes connected.
-- Jim Morrison -
Make Things rather than Persons the subjects of conversations.
-- John Adams -
The writers who accomplish most are those who compel thought on the highest and most profoundly interesting subjects.
-- John Lancaster Spalding -
There are some subjects that can only be tackled in fiction.
-- John le Carre -
When you're dealing with serious subjects, there is a pressure to be absolutely sure that you know what you're doing.
-- John Oliver -
Minds which never rest are subject to many digressions.
-- Joseph Joubert -
I'm not easily inhibited by the fact that I don't know something about a subject. It doesn't stop me from dabbling in it.
-- Joshua Lederberg -
Have the utmost respect for your subjects. Love them.
-- Joyce Tenneson -
There's science and there's science, is all I'm saying. Where humans are the subjects, it's mostly not science
-- Karen Joy Fowler -
About no subject is there less philosophizing than about philosophy.
-- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel -
The subject of history is the gradual realization of all that is practically necessary.
-- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel -
I must react selectively, contrarily, arbitrarily, perversely, and always with intensity directly from the subject.
-- Keith Crown -
The degradation to which you subject others comes back, sooner or later, to haunt you,
-- Ken Follett -
Whomever you're going to interview, you have to be interested in what it is you want to know from them. You have to be interested in the subject.
-- Kurt Loder -
I'm attracted to subjects who overcome tremendous suffering and learn to cope emotionally with it
-- Laura Hillenbrand -
For me it's all about personal vision; is there something about a subject that uniquely speaks to me.
-- Leonard Nimoy -
Once form has been smashed, it has been smashed for good, and once a forbidden subject has been released, it has been released for good.
-- Louise Bogan -
No one can speak well, unless he thoroughly understands his subject.
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero -
Finding the right subject is the hardest part.
-- Mary Ellen Mark -
I always wanted to photograph the universal subjects.
-- Mary Ellen Mark -
I've always been slightly embittered about computers because it was the only subject I failed at school.
-- Matt Frewer -
The one thing that I do is take really complicated systems and subjects and make them accessible to regular people.
-- Matt Taibbi -
Nostalgia is a very complicated subject for me. I'm attracted by nostalgia but I refuse it intellectually.
-- Miuccia Prada -
Race seems to me to be less and less a subject worth discussing.
-- Morgan Freeman
