When I first started to take photographs in Czechoslovakia, I met this old gentleman, this old photographer, who told me a few… — Josef Koudelka Copy Share Image
When you're pregnant, you can think of nothing but having your own body to yourself again; yet after giving birth you realize… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Faith is a great thing, and really religious people would like us to believe that faith and knowing are the same thing,… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I don't need exotic places to be stimulated. Out of familiarity comes nuance. The more you revisit a subject the more you're… — Ray Metzker Copy Share Image
To write for PC reasons, because you think you ought to be dealing with this subject, is never going to yield anything… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
To see with one's own eyes, to feel and judge without succumbing to the suggestive power of the fashion of the day,… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I am because the Chinese have agreed - entered into this agreement in 1997. It sets out the circumstances in which the… — George Brandis Copy Share Image
In fact I'm in too much of a mental muddle to know where I am - an idealist or not. I'm a… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
When we would show any one that he is mistaken, our best course is to observe on what side he considers the… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow- witted man if he has not formed any idea of them… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Once I got interested in organized crime, and, specifically, Jewish organized crime, I got very interested in it. I have learned that,… — Zachary Lazar Copy Share Image
To see the butcher slap the steak before he laid it on the block, and give his knife a sharpening, was to… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Here on the edge of the river, the motifs are very plentiful, the same subject seen from a different angle gives a… — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
Occupy yourself with what's in your life now. Address those situations and subjects as fully as possible with your best efforts. That… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Your eloquence should be the servant of the ideas in your head. Your rule might be this: If a sentence, no matter… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Ye who write, choose a subject suited to your abilities. [Lat., Sumite materiam vestris, qui scribitis, aequam Viribus.] — Horace Copy Share Image
Perhaps the choice is a negative one, in that I was trying to avoid everything that touched on well-known issues - or… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Whenever you take a subject you're obsessed with or that haunts you, and make a movie about it, you're converting it into… — Guy Maddin Copy Share Image
Whomever you're going to interview, you have to be interested in what it is you want to know from them. You have… — Kurt Loder Copy Share Image
There is no necessity for going to the church and hearing the same story forever. Let the minister write what he wishes… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Every education system on Earth has the same hierarchy of subjects: at the top are mathematics and languages, then the humanities, and… — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
People say don't stare. Through the photos, not only do I stare, but I allow viewers to stare at the subject, to… — Dawoud Bey Copy Share Image
History is no easy science; its subject, human society, is inifinitely complex. — Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges Copy Share Image