In order to be able to write well upon a subject, one must have ceased to be interested in it; the thought… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
I've never really thought in terms of taboos. I think that books can really help parents and kids talk together about difficult… — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
An important contribution to a much-neglected but very important subject. No other author has set out to do what Davenport accomplishes, which… — Mark Noll Copy Share Image
I surrendered my beliefs and found myself at the tree of life injecting my story into the veins of leaves only to… — Saul Williams Copy Share Image
One may disavow and disclaim vices that surprise us, and whereto our passions transport us; but those which by long habits are… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The photograph is like a quotation, or a maxim or proverb. Each of us mentally stocks hundreds of photographs, subject to instant… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
You've got to accept the fact that you are basically not teaching a subject, you are teaching children — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Evolutionary plasticity can be purchased only at the ruthlessly dear price of continuously sacrificing some individuals to death from unfavourable mutations. Bemoaning… — Theodosius Dobzhansky Copy Share Image
The State, in short, subjects people, whereas Society associates them voluntarily. — Felix Morley Copy Share Image
The exterior must be joined to the interior to obtain anything from God, that is to say, we must kneel, pray with… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Everyone acquainted with the subject will recognize it as a conspicuous failure. — Henry Morton Stanley Copy Share Image
To extend the depth of what has been called 'art' into photography requires... making available to the spectator the amazing transformations the… — Michael Snow Copy Share Image
Let's say I'm on the policy wonk end of the spectrum. As much as I can dive into a briefing book and… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
In my own pursuit of God, I often became preoccupied with ME! It was easy to think that being constantly aware of… — Bill Johnson Copy Share Image
Men who profess a state of neutrality in times of public danger, desert the common interest of their fellow subjects; and act… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
If there was anything that I learned with my own writing process, maybe there's too many choices what to write about. Just… — Eddie Vedder Copy Share Image
Historically it has been a touchy subject, especially in the south where I am from, people don't really talk about it. If… — Andre Holland Copy Share Image
That is what the highest criticism really is, the record of one's own soul. It is more fascinating than history, as it… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Economics seeks to be a science. Science is supposed to be objective and it is difficult to be scientific when the subject… — George Soros Copy Share Image
In the beginning we must simplify the subject, thus unavoidably falsifying it, and later we must sophisticate away the falsely simple beginning. — Maimonides Copy Share Image
I'm not comfortable with walking the red carpet in a tuxedo and seeing all the women with their boobs pushed up and… — William Hurt Copy Share Image
In my own professional work I have touched on a variety of different fields. I've done work in mathematical linguistics, for example,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It is not, of course, the subject that is or isn't dull, but the quality of attention that we do or do… — William Matthews Copy Share Image
In this, photography is the same thing as love. When my gaze, diving into the sea as my subject, converges with the… — Shomei Tomatsu Copy Share Image
Child molestation is a touchy subject... Read the papers! Half the country's doing it! — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
When I write, I strain with every wizened fibre of my weathered frame to analyze every possible angle of any given subject. — Jim Goad Copy Share Image
If fact were enough, you could take a photo of the subject. Unlike the sensitive observer, however, the camera never selects or… — Paul Strisik Copy Share Image
The search for a meaningful painting subject is a search for ourselves. — Robert Reynolds Copy Share Image
The prerequisite of contrapuntal art, more conspicuous in the work of Bach than in that of any other composer, is an ability… — Glenn Gould Copy Share Image
For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I was 21 in 1968, so I'm as much a child of the '60s as is possible to be. In those years… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Look at the subject as if you have never seen it before. Examine it from every side. Draw its outline with your… — John Baldessari Copy Share Image
What a blessing 'terrorism' is for the state! It's the ideal distraction from the day-to-day reality of the state's chief activity: wringing… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
Film entertains with different angles, quick moves, like a commercial. But filmmakers like [Wim] Wenders allow themselves to observe a subject for… — Andrey Zvyagintsev Copy Share Image
It appeared that after first contemplating a book on some subject, and after giving serious preliminary attention to it, I needed a… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
History is about life. It's awful when the life is squeezed out of it and there's no flavor left, no uncertainties, no… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
The real power of this book comes from its documentation from major sources. In fact, you will quickly discover that most of… — David Duke Copy Share Image
Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Democracy, or "majority rules," is another trick of our society to force us to do things we don't want to do. Even… — William J. Murray Copy Share Image
There should be, methinks, as little merit in loving a woman for her beauty as in loving a man for his prosperity;… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
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