Subjects Quotes · Page 5

It is the body, subject to the harmony of the steps it is executing, which speaks. And it speaks to the heart…

— Natalia Makarova

I always feel the danger because you might always be subject to an unexpected or emergency event.

— Felix Baumgartner

There are many roads to journalism. My feeling is that your best bet in college is to study the subjects you will…

— Serge Schmemann

Deaths, births, and marriages, considering how much they are separately dependent on the freedom of the human will, should seem to be…

— Immanuel Kant

Prana... is the spirit of mantra. Mantra in turn is the expression of prana. Whatever most engages our prana or vital energy…

— Anonymous

The propositions of mathematics are devoid of all factual content; they convey no information whatever on any empirical subject matter.

— Carl Gustav Hempel

Teaching, like any truly human activity, emerges from one's inwardness, for better or worse. As I teach I project the condition of…

— Parker J. Palmer

There is no such thing as educational value in the abstract. The notion that some subjects and methods and that acquaintance with…

— John Dewey

A reader does not suddenly comprehend what is being read or studied, in a snap, miraculously. Comprehension needs to be worked forged,…

— Paulo Freire

To me, a philosopher who says that the distinction between human and nonhuman depends on whether you have a white or a…

— J. M. Coetzee

[The doctrine of air] I was led into in consequence of inhabiting a house adjoining to a public brewery, where I at…

— Joseph Priestley

Intellectual adherence is never owed to anything whatsoever, for it is never in any degree a voluntary thing. Attention alone is voluntary.…

— Simone Weil

As political and economic freedom diminishes, sexual freedom tends correspondingly to increase. And the dictator will do well to encourage that freedom...it…

— Aldous Huxley

Let tyrants fear, I have always so behaved myself that, under God, I have placed my chiefest strength and safeguard in the…

— Elizabeth I

Like any other composer of opera, I choose a subject not for polemical reasons, but because it contains vivid characters in highly…

— Carlisle Floyd

One realizes that human relationships are the tragic necessity of human life; that they can never be wholly satisfactory, that every ego…

— Willa Cather

I don't think that writer's block exists really. I think that when you're trying to do something prematurely, it just won't come.…

— Joyce Carol Oates

All schools both here and in America should teach far fewer subjects far better.

— C. S. Lewis

Dreamily the Princess stood up. "I'm not sure if I can walk," she said. "Then I'll carry you." "Is that what love…

— Tom Robbins

Never forget that the subject is as important as your feeling; the mud puddle itself is as important as your pleasure in…

— Valerie Worth

The reason why research is like sculpting from memory is that in neither is there a concrete visible subject to copy directly.…

— Jacques Barzun

Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and…

— Aristotle

Great paintings have gradations, large and small... They serve to lift the subject off the two-dimensionality of the canvas. Gradations are an…

— Robert Genn

Trying to write books with a subject matter or in a genre or style you're not familiar with is the best way…

— Jeffery Deaver

Photography is like a found object. A photographer never makes an actual subject; they just steal the image from the world...Photography is…

— Hiroshi Sugimoto