Subjects Quotes · Page 20

There are some subjects in school that I love, but it can still feel like a chore. Acting never feels like a…

— Sierra McCormick

Poetry is the most mistaught subject in any school because we teach poetry by form and not by content.

— Nikki Giovanni

I found nothing really wrong with this autobiography except poor choice of subject.

— Clifton Fadiman

The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write about it.

— Benjamin Disraeli

I'm not freakishly short. I had, on my show, used shortness as a joke subject; it didn't really bother me.

— Dick Cavett

Self-awareness is value-free. It isn't scary. It doesn't imply that you will subject yourself to needless pain.

— Deepak Chopra

I know nothing about this subject, but I do have prejudices, which I am more than happy to share with you.

— Leon Botstein

We are women. We are a subject people who have inherited an alien culture.

— Kate Millett

Literature is capable of being a subject that people want to catch up on or discuss, whether at a coffee shop or…

— Mark Z. Danielewski

An object of art creates a public capable of finding pleasure in its beauty. Production, therefore, not only produces an object for…

— Karl Marx

[My subjects] look lost because that is how I see life. I think we are all a bit lost, lost in a…

— Loretta Lux

There are things that I teach, about building photographs, and that's why people come to my workshops. When people come to the…

— Sam Abell

I am receiving what I suppose to be the usual number of threatening letters on the subject. Assassination can be no more…

— James A. Garfield

Honestly we never lied to people about who we were. Usually the wackier interviews came to pass because the interview subjects, aware…

— Mo Rocca

I come at a subject from a profoundly photographic level. I am not interested in pictures that ultimately don't work as pictures.

— Michael Light

No man can be a competent legislator who does not add to an upright intention and a sound judgment a certain degree…

— James Madison

Atheism can benefit no class of people; neither the unfortunate, whom it bereaves of hope, nor the prosperous, whose joys it renders…

— François-René de Chateaubriand

You write down a paragraph or two describing several different subjects creating a kind of story ingredients-list, I suppose, and then cut…

— David Bowie

I used to suspect that in the brain, time is its own representation. I now think the problem is so much more…

— Patricia Churchland

The Witness is a huge step forward, and it is a necessary and important step in meditation, but it is not ultimate.…

— Ken Wilber

While a painting, even one that meets photographic standards of resemblance, is never more than the stating of an interpretation, a photograph…

— Susan Sontag

If a specific question has meaning, it must be possible to find operations by which an answer may be given to it…

— Percy Williams Bridgman

In the spirit of Julian Barnes's Flaubert's Parrot and Alain de Botton's How Proust Can Change Your Life, Mr. Dyer's Out of…

— Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

In a foreign country it is far from easy to study a scene at length when you know that at any minute…

— Robert Adams

You can be an artist without visual images, a reader without eyes, a mass of erudition with a bad elementary memory. In…

— William James

Many writers claim that nearly all crime is caused by economic conditions, or in other words that poverty is practically the whole…

— Clarence Darrow

We live in succession, in division, in parts, in particles. Meantime within man is the soul of the whole; the wise silence;…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is disgusting to notice the increase in the quantity of coffee used by my subjects, and the amount of money that…

— Frederick The Great

Astronomers have a common ground for discussion with musicians in the harmony of the stars and musical concords in tetrads and triads…

— Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

They always believe that 'things are in a bad way now,' but they 'haven't any faith in these idealists.' One minute they…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Mere opinions, in fact, were as likely to govern people's actions as hard evidence, and were subject to sudden reversals as hard…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Mere numbers cannot bring out ... the intimate essence of the experiment. This conviction comes naturally when one watches a subject at…

— Alfred Binet

I chose films made by people I wanted to work with, about subject matter I thought was intriguing.

— Ed Harris

I think he will probably come round in time, I mean to renew the subject pretty often.

— Elizabeth Garrett Anderson

All my film ideas and subjects have come from photography.

— Lauren Greenfield

My father was the kind of guy who'd always say 'Throw out any subject and I got a joke on it,'

— Carol Leifer

However fake the subject, once photographed, it's as good as real.

— Hiroshi Sugimoto

The painter's obsession with his subject is all that he needs to drive him to work.

— Lucian Freud

Why do children dread mathematics? Because of the wrong approach. Because it is looked at as a subject.

— Shakuntala Devi

There are few subjects that match the social significance of women's education in the contemporary world.

— Amartya Sen