My Subject Quotes

43 quotes by 37 authors

Victorian literature was my subject at Harvard. — Margaret Atwood
I don't have stylistic loyalty. That's why people perceive me changing all the time. But there is a real continuity in my subject matter. As… — David Bowie
In 1847 I gave an address at Newton, Mass., before a Teachers' Institute conducted by Horace Mann. My subject was grasshoppers. I passed around a… — Louis Agassiz
Teaching, like any truly human activity, emerges from one's inwardness, for better or worse. As I teach I project the condition of my soul onto… — Parker J. Palmer
If somebody had started on a remake of French Kiss before I announced my own film, I would have dropped my subject. If someone else… — Ajay Devgan
Every decent director has only one subject, and finally only makes the same film over and over again. My subject is the exploitability of feelings,… — Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Above all I am not concerned with Poetry. My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity. — Wilfred Owen
To do a portrait today, I decide how close I can get to my subject. First, of course, mentally or intellectually, then in the viewfinder.… — Victor Skrebneski
This book is not about heroes. English poetry is not yet fit to speak of them. Nor is it about deeds, or lands, nor anything… — Wilfred Owen
Well, I get my subject on Wednesday night; I think it out carefully on Thursday, and make my rough sketch; on Friday morning I begin,… — John Tenniel
It saddens me that educated people don't even know that my subject exists. — Paul Halmos
None of my own experiences ever finds its way into my work. However, the stages of my life - motherhood, middle age, etc. - often… — Anne Tyler
My subject matter was a genuine sort of experience that came out of my life, particularly the American world in which I was privileged to… — Wayne Thiebaud
Honestly, I expected to get a cold reception because of my subject matter. But when editors took a look at the story I had to… — Laura Hillenbrand
I never let my subject get in the way of what I want to talk about. — Mark Victor Hansen
Unlike my subject will I frame my song, It shall be witty and it shan't be long. — Lord Chesterfield
We feasted on love; every mode of it, solemn and merry, romantic and realistic, sometimes as dramatic as a thunderstorm, sometimes comfortable and unemphatic as… — C.S. Lewis
My subject is my life, and my life is my subject. — Otto von Bismarck
You cannot meet someone for a moment, or even cast eyes on someone in the street, without changing. That is my subject. — Carolyn Kizer
It's a nice feeling to go out in the world and look for excellence - the best in man. My subject is very valid. It's… — LeRoy Neiman

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