In order to be able to write well upon a subject, one must have ceased to be interested in it; the thought… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
I've never really thought in terms of taboos. I think that books can really help parents and kids talk together about difficult… — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
An important contribution to a much-neglected but very important subject. No other author has set out to do what Davenport accomplishes, which… — Mark Noll Copy Share Image
I surrendered my beliefs and found myself at the tree of life injecting my story into the veins of leaves only to… — Saul Williams Copy Share Image
One may disavow and disclaim vices that surprise us, and whereto our passions transport us; but those which by long habits are… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The photograph is like a quotation, or a maxim or proverb. Each of us mentally stocks hundreds of photographs, subject to instant… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
You've got to accept the fact that you are basically not teaching a subject, you are teaching children — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Evolutionary plasticity can be purchased only at the ruthlessly dear price of continuously sacrificing some individuals to death from unfavourable mutations. Bemoaning… — Theodosius Dobzhansky Copy Share Image
The State, in short, subjects people, whereas Society associates them voluntarily. — Felix Morley Copy Share Image
The exterior must be joined to the interior to obtain anything from God, that is to say, we must kneel, pray with… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Everyone acquainted with the subject will recognize it as a conspicuous failure. — Henry Morton Stanley Copy Share Image
To extend the depth of what has been called 'art' into photography requires... making available to the spectator the amazing transformations the… — Michael Snow Copy Share Image
Let's say I'm on the policy wonk end of the spectrum. As much as I can dive into a briefing book and… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
In my own pursuit of God, I often became preoccupied with ME! It was easy to think that being constantly aware of… — Bill Johnson Copy Share Image
Men who profess a state of neutrality in times of public danger, desert the common interest of their fellow subjects; and act… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
If there was anything that I learned with my own writing process, maybe there's too many choices what to write about. Just… — Eddie Vedder Copy Share Image
Historically it has been a touchy subject, especially in the south where I am from, people don't really talk about it. If… — Andre Holland Copy Share Image
That is what the highest criticism really is, the record of one's own soul. It is more fascinating than history, as it… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Economics seeks to be a science. Science is supposed to be objective and it is difficult to be scientific when the subject… — George Soros Copy Share Image
In the beginning we must simplify the subject, thus unavoidably falsifying it, and later we must sophisticate away the falsely simple beginning. — Maimonides Copy Share Image
I'm not comfortable with walking the red carpet in a tuxedo and seeing all the women with their boobs pushed up and… — William Hurt Copy Share Image
In my own professional work I have touched on a variety of different fields. I've done work in mathematical linguistics, for example,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It is not, of course, the subject that is or isn't dull, but the quality of attention that we do or do… — William Matthews Copy Share Image
In this, photography is the same thing as love. When my gaze, diving into the sea as my subject, converges with the… — Shomei Tomatsu Copy Share Image
Child molestation is a touchy subject... Read the papers! Half the country's doing it! — Woody Allen Copy Share Image