Architecture, either practically considered or viewed as an art of taste, is a subject so important and comprehensive in itself, that volumes… — Andrew Jackson Downing Copy Share Image
That subject matter has never left me...The more you're in the material world, the more there is a tendency for a search… — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
And government (to define it de facto, or according to modern prudence) is an art whereby some man, or some few men,… — James Harrington Copy Share Image
I usually start by doing one or more color studies of the subject on a piece of canvas taped to cardboard. — Mary Beth McKenzie Copy Share Image
The most telling one was recently on a plane. This guy very dressed up and formal - the watch, the shoes, the… — Jeffrey Tambor Copy Share Image
Avatar is the most high tech film in terms of its execution, dealing with essentially a very low tech subject; which is… — James Cameron Copy Share Image
If the topic be highly abstract, show its nature by concrete examples; if it be unfamiliar, make it figure as part of… — William James Copy Share Image
Science, like nothing else among the institutions of mankind, grows like a weed every year. Art is subject to arbitrary fashion, religion… — Kary Mullis Copy Share Image
The judgment is an utensil proper for all subjects, and will have an oar in everything. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I try to use models at least for the main characters because of the nature of my art. I tend to focus… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
Again, I shall be told that the law presumes the husband to be kind, affectionate, and ready to provide for and protect… — Ernestine Rose Copy Share Image
He adorned whatever subject he either spoke or wrote upon, by the most splendid eloquence. — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
All human plans [are] subject to ruthless revision by Nature, or Fate, or whatever one preferred to call the powers behind the… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
With a fractured sense of self, we come to depend on what people feed back to us - often mediated through social… — Geoff Mulgan Copy Share Image
Yossarian decided to change the subject. "Now you're changing the subject." he pointed out diplomatically. "I'll bet I can name two things… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
I could tell you that in my entire coaching career I have never talked to any player, staff member about football air… — Bill Belichick Copy Share Image
We are tired of the pretense that we have special privileges and the reality that we have none; of the fiction that… — Lillie Devereux Blake Copy Share Image
To my mind, the two most fascinating subjects in the universe are sex and the eighteenth century. — Brigid Brophy Copy Share Image
Communists, socialists and fascists everywhere, from Mr. Obama upward, have taken to the global warming cause like a quack to colored water.… — Christopher Monckton, 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley Copy Share Image
I want a future where women and girls get to be the subject of their own sexuality, not the object of somebody… — Jaclyn Friedman Copy Share Image
For a long time I thought I should be a civil engineer. That seemed to be the only thing worth doing, and… — Ian Hislop Copy Share Image
We hate poetry that has a palpable design upon us - and if we do not agree, seems to put its hand… — John Keats Copy Share Image
To have been able to write the books I wanted to write, on demanding subjects like war and the history of psychiatry,… — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
Just as I sit down to meditate, all the vilest subjects in the world come up. The whole thing is nauseating. Why… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Constant practice devoted to one subject often outdoes both intelligence and skill. - Assiduus usus uni rei deditus et ingenium et artem… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image