Subjects Quotes · Page 18

Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist.

— W. H. Auden

Math was always my bad subject. I couldn't convince my teachers that many of my answers were meant ironically.

— Calvin Trillin

Our particular principles of religion are a subject of accountability to God alone.

— Thomas Jefferson

I've never been noticeably reticent about talking on subjects about which I know nothing.

— Prince Philip

The way the world sees women vs. men is a subject that really interests me.

— Danielle Steel

If you treat your subject with seriousness and respect, other people tend to treat it the same way.

— Vanessa Friedman

Certainly, I'm excited by epic subjects. It doesn't particularly frighten me.

— Kenneth Branagh

It's the not the subject that interests me as much as my perception of the subject.

— Roy DeCarava

I hate having to do small talk. I'd rather talk about deep subjects. I'd rather talk about meditation, or the world, or…

— Ellen DeGeneres

I really believe that I am the first and only artist to throw not just the 'subject' out of my paintings, but…

— Wassily Kandinsky

When I was in school, my favorite subject was math. I took algebra and calculus. At an early age I grasped it…

— Chris Bosh

Batty as it sounds, subject and style may choose artists, through some unfathomable cosmic means. How else to explain that even artists…

— Jerry Saltz

In school math and science were my favorite subjects, but I probably in my true self I'm more of a people person.…

— Emily Deschanel

Is there something in druggy subjects that encourages directors to make imitation film noir? Film noir itself becomes an addiction.

— Pauline Kael

Because I was extremely uncomfortable talking about sex with him at all and particularly in such a graphic way, I told him…

— Anita Hill

When any body of statesmen make public asservations by one or various voices, that there is no discord among them, not a…

— Anthony Trollope

For starters, let's dispense with the cheap jokes about cannibalism. That means cracks about giving an arm and a leg - sorry…

— Mitchell Zuckoff

I want a future where women and girls get to be the subject of their own sexuality, not the object of somebody…

— Jaclyn Friedman

I think I take what you might call a B-movie story, deal with B-movie subjects, and I treat it as if it's…

— M. Night Shyamalan

There is a vulgar persuasion, that the ignorance of women, by favoring their subordination, ensures their utility. 'Tis the same argument employed…

— Frances Wright

As an element in human progress, the right of private property, in importance, has taken first and almost only place in the…

— Joshua K. Ingalls

I make some movies for myself. I do that sometimes when the subject matter is very sensitive and very personal and I…

— Steven Spielberg

Teachers and students (leadership and people), co-intent on reality, are both Subjects, not only in the task of unveiling that reality, and…

— Paulo Freire

When dreaded outcomes are actually imminent we don't worry about themwe take action. Seeing lava from the local volcano make its way…

— Gavin de Becker

If we really believed that those who are gone from us were as truly alive as ourselves, we could not invest the…

— Lydia M. Child

What greater weakness can there be than not to know what is the source of one's being, of one's life, of one's…

— Jean de la Bruyere

Lobbyists are in many cases expert technicians and capable of explaining complex and difficult subjects in a clear, understandable fashion. They engage…

— John F. Kennedy

Once I spoke about this subject among a group of English intellectuals. One of them was a professor on Roman Law at…

— Garry Kasparov

There is something in the eloquence of the pulpit, when it is really eloquence, which is entitled to the highest praise and…

— Jane Austen

I think we owe it to children to let them dig their knowledge, of whatever subject, for themselves out of the "fit"…

— Charlotte Mason

One of the biggest problems of mathematics is to explain to everyone else what it is all about. The technical trappings of…

— Ian Stewart

Foreign news is considered an expletive. Thoughtfully written analysis is out, 'live pops' are in. 'Action Jackson' is the cry. Hire lookers,…

— Dan Rather

Wikipedia has a way of compiling compendiums of information on subjects.

— Mitch Kapor

The subject of men and women is absolutely fraught with sex, which is as it should be.

— Peg Bracken

Many things prevent knowledge, including the obscurity of the subject and the brevity of human life

— Protagoras

There are subjects in which I wish to become knowledgeable, and subjects in which I wish to remain wise.

— Anonymous

I dread specialists in power because they are specialists speaking outside of their special subject.

— C. S. Lewis

I think of painting without subject matter as music without words.

— Kenneth Noland

My eyes are green, my hair is silver and I freckly; the rest is subject to change without notice.

— Anne McCaffrey

Some subjects come up suddenly in our speech and cannot be silenced.

— Mason Cooley