There are basically only two subject matters in all Western culture: sex and death. We do have some ability to manipulate sex… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
In the judgment of design engineers, the ordinary means of communicating with a computer are entirely inadequate. [...] Graphical communication in some… — Maurice Wilkes Copy Share Image
The essence and foundation of House of Commons debating is formal conversation. The set speech, the harangue addressed to constituents, or to… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I am a successful lecturer in physics for popular audiences. The real entertainment gimmick is the excitement, drama and mystery of the… — Richard P. Feynman 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
The artist himself is actually the subject in everything after, say, 1900. Eventually, art becomes so removed from the community that you… — Gus Van Sant Copy Share Image
It was a dream world, a kind of Alice in Wonderland, with its kings and queens, princes and princesses, and our millions… — Sylvia Sidney Copy Share Image
This is part of the complexity of grief: A piece of you recognizes it is an extreme state, an altered state, yet… — Meghan O'Rourke Copy Share Image
The dark ghettos are social, political, educational and-above all-economic colonies. Their inhabitants are subject peoples, victims of the greed, cruelty, insensitivity, guilt,… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
As to memory, it is known that this frail faculty naturally lets drop the facts which are less flattering to our self-love… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I cannot stand forward, and give praise or blame to any thing which relates to human actions, and human concerns, on a… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
The subject of my work has a lot to do with general, artistic matters, questions like: What is creativity? Where do we… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
On one hand you want to see your subject well. On the other hand, you want to be caught off guard to… — Harold Feinstein Copy Share Image
For after the subject is removed or the eye shut, we still retain an image of the things seen, though more obscure… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
After more than 700 hours of studying this subject, and thoroughly investigating its foundation, I have come to the conclusion that the… — Josh McDowell Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
When I left home after graduating high school, I left as a migrant agricultural worker with a Modern Library edition of Plato… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
The photographer's most important and likewise most difficult task is not learning to manage his camera, or to develop, or to print.… — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
Andrew Hacker argues that algebra and trigonometry and calculus are subjects that almost nobody used after they graduate, and so why should… — Anya Kamenetz Copy Share Image
To be forgotten is to sleep in peace with the undisturbed myriads, no longer subject to the chills and heats, the blasts,… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
I tend to think that the onus is on the writer to engage the reader, that the reader should not be expected… — Lorin Stein Copy Share Image
I am trying to find out why a subject does look so marvelous, and trying to make that sensation manifest on a… — Euan Uglow Copy Share Image
What I’m saying is, when different experiments give you the same result, it is no longer subject to your opinion. That’s the… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Very often people looking at my pictures say, 'You must have had to wait a long time to get that cloud just… — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
I’ve heard it said: ‘By his home you shall know him’; and we all know that we must pay attention to anyone… — Steven Brust Copy Share Image
