When I write, I strain with every wizened fibre of my weathered frame to analyze every possible angle of any given subject. — Jim Goad Copy Share Image
If fact were enough, you could take a photo of the subject. Unlike the sensitive observer, however, the camera never selects or… — Paul Strisik Copy Share Image
The search for a meaningful painting subject is a search for ourselves. — Robert Reynolds Copy Share Image
The prerequisite of contrapuntal art, more conspicuous in the work of Bach than in that of any other composer, is an ability… — Glenn Gould Copy Share Image
For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I was 21 in 1968, so I'm as much a child of the '60s as is possible to be. In those years… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Look at the subject as if you have never seen it before. Examine it from every side. Draw its outline with your… — John Baldessari Copy Share Image
What a blessing 'terrorism' is for the state! It's the ideal distraction from the day-to-day reality of the state's chief activity: wringing… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
Film entertains with different angles, quick moves, like a commercial. But filmmakers like [Wim] Wenders allow themselves to observe a subject for… — Andrey Zvyagintsev Copy Share Image
It appeared that after first contemplating a book on some subject, and after giving serious preliminary attention to it, I needed a… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
History is about life. It's awful when the life is squeezed out of it and there's no flavor left, no uncertainties, no… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
The real power of this book comes from its documentation from major sources. In fact, you will quickly discover that most of… — David Duke Copy Share Image
Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Democracy, or "majority rules," is another trick of our society to force us to do things we don't want to do. Even… — William J. Murray Copy Share Image
There should be, methinks, as little merit in loving a woman for her beauty as in loving a man for his prosperity;… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
I don't want to paint myself as some kind of saint - that would be laughable - but I do think I've… — Robert Draper Copy Share Image
The master class has always declared the wars; the subject class has always fought the battles. — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
I have referred to [Rabbi Shlomo ben Isaac] on occasion, but I doubt that you will find his name in any of… — Frank Moore Cross Copy Share Image
If something I make succeeds, people say it was luck. But I don't just throw myself into the unknown. I research my… — Cosima Spender Copy Share Image
The more power a government has the more it can act arbitrarily according to the whims and desires of the elite, and… — Rudolph Rummel Copy Share Image
Throughout the long period of religious doubt, I had been rendered very unhappy by the gradual loss of belief, but when the… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
...instead it seems that business - like weight loss - is a subject wherein hope and fear inspire limitless gullibility. — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
A wonderful area for speculative academic work is the unknowable. These days religious subjects are in disfavor, but there are still plenty… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
But war's a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings should not play at. Nations would do well To extort their truncheons… — William Cowper Copy Share Image