Subjects Quotes · Page 11

Avoid making yourself the subject of conversation.

— Jean de la Bruyere

Everything I paint is a portrait, whatever the subject.

— Jamie Wyeth

The subject of a rumor is always the last to hear it.

— Stefan Zweig

Subject has the variety of life.

— Walter J. Phillips

The true subject of poetry is the loss of the beloved.

— Faiz Ahmad Faiz

Entrepreneurship may be the most under-taught subject.

— Marty Nemko

Everyone is a reactionary about subjects he understands.

— Robert Conquest

I find myself a fascinating subject.

— Juliana Hatfield

Rights are not self-evident. They're not unalienable. They are subject to modification just like anything else.

— Alan Dershowitz

writers do not find subjects: subjects find them. There is not so much a search as a state of open susceptibility.

— Elizabeth Bowen

There was a time when no difficult subjects were ever aired in the 'Lady', and sadly, life isn't like that.

— Rachel Johnson

Everyone acquainted with the subject will recognize it as a conspicuous failure.

— Henry Morton Stanley

An aphorism is a single sentence that totally exhausts its subject.

— Robert Breault

Geography is the subject which holds the key to our future

— Michael Palin

This splendid subject [mathematics], queen of all exact sciences, and the ideal and norm of all careful thinking...

— G. Stanley Hall

The primary subject of fiction is and has always been human emotion, values, and beliefs.

— Anonymous

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

Europe was a very contentious subject in literature and yet jazz musicians still depended on Europe. Now it's not such a big…

— Darryl Pinckney

If done well, I believe the photographic representation of the human subject has the potential to be more revealing than what is…

— Dawoud Bey

As for critical writing about modernism, its moments of lucidity are but fulgurations illuminating the dark and incomprehensible landscape of its subject's…

— Will Self

You reason like the king, who, being sent across the frontier, called out, 'What will become of my poor subjects without me?'

— Peter Kropotkin

Power politics existed before Machiavelli was ever heard of; it will exist long after his name is only a faint memory. What…

— Max Lerner

The subject of Finnish poetry ought to have a special interest for the Japanese student, if only for the reason that Finnish…

— Lafcadio Hearn

The Swedish he knew was mostly from Bergman films. He had learned it as a college student, matching the subtitles to the…

— Ann Patchett

The fact is that writing, like any creative undertaking, carries with it both pain and great joy. The pain is often inherent…

— Judith Barrington

What is a portrait good for, unless it shows just how the subject was seen by the painter? In the old days…

— Aubrey Beardsley

In my suffrage work, I learned beyond question that the news coming through the great press agencies was colored and distorted; and…

— Alice Stone Blackwell

He wanted nothing, for the time being, except to understand … Without advice, assistance or plan, he began reading an incongruous assortment…

— Ayn Rand

I had ancestors who were slave-holders, which is a difficult piece of family history to say the least. In a recent New…

— Laura Lippman

Oh, I never meant, in my old age, to become subject to the thrall of a love like this; it is almost…

— Celia Thaxter

My temperament and habit had always kept me rather in the middle of the road; in politics as well as in social…

— Jane Addams

I've published many biographies over the years and enjoyed working with writers on their research, discussing it, thinking about it and how…

— Victoria Wilson

Let us become thoroughly sensible of the weakness, blindness, and narrow limits of human reason: Let us duly consider its uncertainty and…

— David Hume

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

Everyone has taste, yet it is more of a taboo subject than sex or money. The reason for this is simple: claims…

— Stephen Bayley

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

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

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

The director [Elfar Adalsteins] came to me through my agent and I had a read of the script [of the "Sailcloth]. I…

— John Hurt

Cognitive states of mind are seldom addictive, since they depend upon exploration of the world, and the individual encounter with the individual…

— Roger Scruton