The more a subject is understood, the more briefly it may be explained. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
When that happens - when risk is taken and the filmmakers dive into the subject matter without a parachute - very often… — Francis Ford Coppola Copy Share Image
When it came time for me to give my talk on the subject, I started off by drawing an outline of the… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
By numberless examples it will evidently appear that human affairs are as subject to change and fluctuation as the waters of the… — Francesco Guicciardini Copy Share Image
Pleasantry is never good on serious points, because it always regards subjects in that point of view in which it is not… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
The writers who accomplish most are those who compel thought on the highest and most profoundly interesting subjects. — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
For me, photography is as much about the way I respond to the subject as it is about the subject itself. — Alec Soth Copy Share Image
I tend to arrive in the rehearsal process with very strongly developed ideas about what I want to do. But I don't… — Trevor Nunn Copy Share Image
Why do people argue? Even the wisest of men have not found God through argument! Is God a subject for argument? — Sarada Devi Copy Share Image
Despotism subjects a nation to one tyrant; democracy, to many. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington Copy Share Image
Well, not totally because over the years I've probably done 2,700 commercials. So, I'm always ticking. And in a way that was… — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
A contemporary or near-future book is much harder because you can't fake the facts. There are people alive who know much more… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
Hopefully the process is to spot things that would be grist for the funny mill. In some respects, the heavier subjects are… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
When I criticize Joseph Beuys or Francis Bacon, nobody calls those opinions anti-male. Putting female artists or their subject matter off-limits is… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
In the Tarot deck, the Fool is depicted as a young man about to step off a cliff into empty air. Most… — Richard Kadrey Copy Share Image
A subject to which few intellectuals ever give a thought is the right to be a vagrant, the freedom to wander. Yet… — Isabelle Eberhardt Copy Share Image
Sin endeavors to subject the blessed God to the humor and lust of every person in the world — Stephen Charnock Copy Share Image
I may well do some more polemical writing, if a subject that fires me up comes along. Apart from that possibility, I… — Louis Begley Copy Share Image
Svanaja includes in itself the whole subject, officials and ministers. If there is something wrong in the conduct of these people, it… — Chanakya Copy Share Image
I know of no other practise which will make one more attractive in conversation than to be well-read in a variety of… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
Irritability is immaturity of character. If you are subject to being cross and unpleasant with others for no apparent reason, you need… — Lawrence G. Lovasik Copy Share Image
Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of the government. The history of liberty is… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
After my return to England it appeared to me that by following the example of Lyell in Geology, and by collecting all… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
I'm a big skeptic so I won't just go off what an individual may tell me. I gotta do the research. I'ma… — Kevin Gates Copy Share Image
