Subjects Quotes · Page 163

I've always felt you don't have to be completely detached, emotionally uninvolved to make precise observations. There's nothing wrong with feeling great…

— Jane Goodall

I love convincing a reader that an unusual or seemingly ordinary subject is worth his or her time - it's part of…

— Susan Orlean

Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery. I quit such odious subjects as soon as I can, impatient to restore everybody…

— Jane Austen

Nietzsche's 'perspectivalism' was expressly directed against the 'laughable juxtaposition of "man and world"'. But 'absolutist' accounts, too, typically try to demonstrate that…

— David E. Cooper

Philosophy, art, and science are not the mental objects of an objectified brain but the three aspects under which the brain becomes…

— Gilles Deleuze

For me, teaching is about weaving a web of connectedness between myself, my students, the subject I'm teaching, and the larger world.

— Parker J. Palmer

Most persons who indulge in second thought don't do much thinking when the subject is presented for first thought.

— William Feather

I can work with shyness, but for the most part I want people to feel comfortable with me. It's really more about…

— Ryan McGinley

You [as an actor] have a responsibility to Jonathan's book and you have a responsibility to talk about a subject that is…

— Stephen Daldry

The biographer who writes the life of his subjects self-concept passes through a fade into the inner house of life.

— Leon Edel

Everybody enjoys arguing about the current state of music because it feels as if you are talking about something incredibly important, yet…

— John Mayer

It is impossible for us to understand the Church if we regard her as subject to the limitations of human culture. For…

— Christopher Dawson

Corruption is knowing when something is not being done, knowing when the American people are being left unprotected and when you make…

— Robert Wright

When you have well thought out your subject, words will come spontaneously.

— Horace

Every wanton and causeless restraint of the will of the subject, whether practiced by a monarch, a nobility, or a popular assembly,…

— William Blackstone

It's very rare that I ever go and research a particular subject. Mostly I do serendipitous research, I read stuff, things spinning…

— Terry Pratchett

Are there books about us or something?” This makes Pressia angry - the idea that this world is a subject of study,…

— Julianna Baggott

Hurdlers are sprinters with a problem. They're not satisfied just to sprint. Anybody can sprint, some not as well as others of…

— Denny Moyer

After reading Edgar Allan Poe. Something the critics have not noticed: a new literary world pointing to the literature of the 20th…

— Jules de Goncourt

How many may a man of diffusive conversation count among his acquaintances, whose lives have been signalized by numberless escapes; who never…

— Samuel Johnson

The kids in our classroom are infinitely more significant than the subject matter we teach.

— Meladee McCarty

It is incredible how as soon as a people become subject, it promptly falls into such complete forgetfulness of its freedom that…

— Etienne de La Boetie

I like to read about subjects unrelated to my work, especially history.

— Bruno Tonioli

When you work fast, what you put in your pictures is what your brought with yoiu - your own ideas and concepts.…

— Sebastiao Salgado

I've seen men like you in Doris Day films, but I never thought they existed in real life...The men who can't commit,…

— Nick Hornby