It is an anomaly that information, the one thing most necessary to our survival as choosers of our own way, should be… — A. J. Liebling Copy Share Image
If one cannot state a matter clearly enough so that even an intelligent twelve-year-old can understand it, one should remain within the… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Dear Mother, I am getting on nicely in my work at the bank, and like it ... I want to find out… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
The modern school without systematic lectures turns out many graduates who lack retention. No sooner has the sound of the word left… — Arturo Alfonso Schomburg Copy Share Image
“The Burgess sisters arrive together. Tara and Lainie do a little bit of everything. Sometimes dancers, sometimes actresses. Once they were librarians,… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
Basketball, like all sports, is predicated on the execution of fundamentals. The coach is a teacher. His subject: fundamentals — Jack Ramsay Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I bless the gods for not letting my education in rhetoric, poetry, and other literary studies come easily to me, and thereby… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Our particular principles of religion are a subject of accountability to our god alone. I enquire after no man's and trouble none… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I have no admiration for culture. I have no reserve knowledge, no provisional knowledge. And everything that I learn, I learn for… — Gilles Deleuze Copy Share Image
As for critical writing about modernism, its moments of lucidity are but fulgurations illuminating the dark and incomprehensible landscape of its subject's… — Will Self Copy Share Image
if you take passionate interest in a subject, it is hard not to believe yourself specially equipped for it. — Ethel Smyth Copy Share Image
A high place of honor, although doubtless one to be obtained only after enduring the pangs of a prolonged crucifixion, awaits that… — George Trumbull Ladd Copy Share Image
He owned an expensive camera that required thought before you pressed the shutter, and I quickly became his favorite subject, round-faced, missing… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
We ought at least, from prudence, never to speak of ourselves, because that is a subject on which we may be sure… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
I was aware that you weren't supposed to write about suburbia, that it was undignified in some way, the subject matter not… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
The unary Photograph has every reason to be banal, 'unity' of composition being the first rule of vulgar (and notably, of academic)… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
My subject matter was a genuine sort of experience that came out of my life, particularly the American world in which I… — Wayne Thiebaud Copy Share Image
The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to permit the conquered Eastern peoples to have arms. History teaches that… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Oddly enough, most of the books written about the subject aren't very good because they just focus on the more hateful movies… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
As science is more and more subject to grave misuse as well as to use for human benefit it has also become… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
...I would never choose a subject for what it means to me. I choose a subject and then what I feel about… — Diane Arbus Copy Share Image
If you're working on better conditions for prisoners, if you make that a popular issue and you invite mainstream media to weigh… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
