Necessity is an evil; but there is no necessity for continuing to live subject to necessity. — Epicurus Copy Share Image
For me, at least, studying my subjects first and knowing them personally was essential to taking a good picture. — Gisele Freund Copy Share Image
I do care about style. I do care, but I only care about style that serves the subject. — Richard Attenborough Copy Share Image
The physicist can never subject an isolated hypothesis to experimental test, but only a whole group of hypotheses. — Pierre Duhem Copy Share Image
Intense interest in any subject is indispensable if you're really going to excel in it. — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
The portrait is the subject matter in photography where the problems of the media are the most visible. — Thomas Struth Copy Share Image
Rights are not self-evident. They're not unalienable. They are subject to modification just like anything else. — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
writers do not find subjects: subjects find them. There is not so much a search as a state of open susceptibility. — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
You are not your body. It is just something you wear for a while, because living in the earthplane is infinitely more… — P. M. H. Atwater Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Man (in good earnest) is a marvellous vain, fickle, and unstable subject, and on whom it is very hard to form any… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
And while we're on the subject of ducks, which we plainly are, the story, 'The Ugly Duckling' ought be banned as the… — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
Engineering is not only study of 45 subjects but it is moral studies of intellectual life. Make things as simple as possible..but… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I'm interested in seeing films that confront me with new things, with films that make me question myself, with films that help… — Michael Haneke Copy Share Image
Hence it is a mistake to think, that the supreme or legislative power of any common-wealth, can do what it will, and… — John Locke Copy Share Image
The teacher is commodified, the school is a shop, the subjects are consumer goods. To read, to think, to reflect, isn't a… — Daniel Pennac Copy Share Image
I don't care very much for literary shrines and hauntsI knew a woman in London who boasted that she had lodgings from… — Carolyn Wells Copy Share Image
Porgy is...an interesting example of what can be done by talent in spite of a bad setup. With a libretto that should… — George Gershwin Copy Share Image
After my brush with the suicidal impulse, I listen with new ears to others when they speak on the subject. I think… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Despite the modern dogma to the effect that women were a subject sex until the nineteenth century 'emancipated' them from history, women… — Mary Ritter Beard Copy Share Image
if your subject is an actor, he or she will also be shorter in person than they appear onscreen. This, also, you… — Jancee Dunn Copy Share Image
Self-similarity is a dull subject because you are used to very familiar shapes. But that is not the case. Now many shapes… — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
The fact is that writing, like any creative undertaking, carries with it both pain and great joy. The pain is often inherent… — Judith Barrington Copy Share Image
What is a portrait good for, unless it shows just how the subject was seen by the painter? In the old days… — Aubrey Beardsley Copy Share Image
Now let's move on to the subject of how a real man treats his wife. A real man doesn't slap even a… — S.M. Stirling Copy Share Image
My advice to women is the same advice I would give to any young man trying to make it in the business… — Ondi Timoner Copy Share Image
Let us become thoroughly sensible of the weakness, blindness, and narrow limits of human reason: Let us duly consider its uncertainty and… — David Hume Copy Share Image
If we have dwelled on Godel's work at some length, is it because we see it in the mathematical analogy of what… — Paul Watzlawick Copy Share Image
Everyone has taste, yet it is more of a taboo subject than sex or money. The reason for this is simple: claims… — Stephen Bayley Copy Share Image
There is scarcely room for doubt that something in the psychological relation of a mother-in-law to a son-in-law breeds hostility between them… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
One interesting feature of criticism is seen in the ease with which it discovers what Addison called the specific quality of an… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resign his conscience to the legislator? Why has every man… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
