The inevitable effect of a biographer's hindsight is to belittle the subject's foresight. — Clive James Copy Share Image
Animal rights is a serious subject, but I do my best to find humor where I can. — Karen Dawn Copy Share Image
Photographers stop photographing a subject too soon before they have exhausted the possibilities. — Dorothea Lange Copy Share Image
Some people are asking me questions like this is a more shocking subject, which is so strange. — Daniel Radcliffe Copy Share Image
The British people, being subject to fogs, require grave statesmen. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Nearly all interested parties think I write too shortly on the subjects that interest them most. — Norman Davies Copy Share Image
In America, the people are not subjects of government, the government is subject to the people. — Rick Perry Copy Share Image
Giorgio Morandi's paintings make me think that artists may not totally choose, or even control, their subjects or style. — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Religion is the eldest sister of philosophy: on whatever subjects they may differ, it is unbecoming in either to quarrel, and most… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
My compulsion to always be working has become less strong and my current business is purely down to this enormous alimony. If… — John Cleese Copy Share Image
I think I want to go in to law or oncology, as those are both subjects that really interest me, but my… — Joshua Rush Copy Share Image
I beg of you always to dwell upon the necessity of a thorough understanding of principles, in order to stop the vivacity… — Nicolas Malebranche Copy Share Image
I presume my work has also always been about reduction without any distraction or after effects, outside emotions, or intimacy or complicity… — Hedi Slimane Copy Share Image
Humanizing good people is kind of boring and I don't really see the value in it... humanizing tricky characters is exhilarating, and… — Jason Reitman Copy Share Image
A purified mind can grasp anything. It can dive deep into the subtlest subject and understand even transcendental things. — Sivananda Copy Share Image
I think context, location matters a lot. Because location obviously in my situation, it's the space in which the work is going… — Shahzia Sikander Copy Share Image
It is however pretty evident, on general principles, that in devising for mathematical truths a new form in which to record and… — Ada Lovelace Copy Share Image
With a fractured sense of self, we come to depend on what people feed back to us - often mediated through social… — Geoff Mulgan Copy Share Image
I am often drawn to what appear at first to be 'dark' or 'difficult' subjects, but which, upon further examination, are always… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
I believe people should study a little bit every day. It should become habitual, like brushing your teeth, combing your hair, having… — Bob Proctor Copy Share Image
I think, 'How could anybody mock a good pop song?' It is timeless; it transcends barriers; it breaks down every single type… — Mika Copy Share Image
For a long time I thought I should be a civil engineer. That seemed to be the only thing worth doing, and… — Ian Hislop Copy Share Image
All men and women have passions, natural desires and noble ambitions, and also a conscience; they have sex, hunger, fear, anger, and… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
Too often little attention is paid to individual talent. instead, education goes on dividing people according to their sex, and putting them… — Amelia Earhart Copy Share Image
One of the most delightful things about gardening is the freemasonry it gives with other gardeners, and the interest and pleasure all… — Margery Fish Copy Share Image
An act of heroism, of extraordinary courage, the grandeur of it, won't easily inspire us to act in imitation, but it can… — John McCain Copy Share Image
“A citizen of the United States, means a member of this new nation. The principle of government being radically changed by the… — David Ramsay Copy Share Image
Historians of a generation ago were often shocked by the violence with which scientists rejected the history of their own subject as… — I. Bernard Cohen Copy Share Image
I never think in terms of alienation; it's the others who do. Alienation means one thing to Hegel, another to Marx and… — Michelangelo Antonioni Copy Share Image
A rock or stone is not a subject that, of itself, may interest a philosopher to study; but, when he comes to… — James Hutton Copy Share Image
If Congress sees fit to impose a capitation, or other direct tax, it must be laid in proportion to the census; if… — Salmon P. Chase Copy Share Image
All schools both here and in America should teach far fewer subjects far better. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
A cocktail party is a place where you talk with a person you do not know about a subject you have no… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
