Subject Quotes
2685 Subject quotes by 1904 unique authors
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My favorite subject was recess. Fortunately for me, I had a mother who believed I was smart.
— Benjamin Carson
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Good critical writing is measured by the perception and evaluation of the subject; bad critical writing by the necessity of maintaining the professional standing of…
— Raymond Chandler
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Think about the photo before and after, never during. The secret is to take your time. You mustn't go too fast. The subject must forget…
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
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In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little, human detail can become a Leitmotiv.
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
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Actually, I'm not all that interested in the subject of photography. Once the picture is in the box, I'm not all that interested in what…
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
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For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.
— Paul Cezanne
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A woman is subject matter enough.
— Claude Chabrol
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The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Self-awareness is value-free. It isn't scary. It doesn't imply that you will subject yourself to needless pain.
— Deepak Chopra
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My physics teacher, Thomas Miner was particularly gifted. To this day, I remember how he introduced the subject of physics. He told us we were…
— Steven Chu
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A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
— Winston Churchill
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Actually, the curious thing is that the more you become a subject of admiration or loathing, the more you're examined under a microscope, the distance…
— Nick Clegg
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I would rather the man who presents something for my consideration subject me to a zephyr of truth and a gentle breeze of responsibility rather…
— Grover Cleveland
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As a young man, Yeats spoke to me in a way I could understand. Shakespeare I couldn't understand, but Yeats I could. It was his…
— Leonard Cohen
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I don't mind a dirty girl. But what I find tragic is when we, as women, become not the subject of our own story but…
— Tori Amos
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The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of…
— Thomas Aquinas
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It is obviously easier, for the short run, to draw cheap labor from adjacent pools of poverty...than to find it among one's own people. And…
— George F. Kennan
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The essence of love and compassion is understanding, the ability to recognize the physical, material, and psychological suffering of others, to put ourselves "inside the…
— Nhat Hanh
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Seeing, in the finest and broadest sense, means using your senses, your intellect, and your emotions. It means encountering your subject matter with your whole…
— Freeman Patterson
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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
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However, if we consider that all the characteristics which have been cited are only differences in degree of structure, may we not suppose that this…
— Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
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On the whole, at least in the author's experience, the preparation of species-specific antiserum fractions and the differentiation of closely related species with precipitin sera…
— Karl Landsteiner
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The fact is that even art is subject to fashion.
— Hugo Pratt
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It's better to be talked about than to be forgotten. (In other words, if you are the subject of gossip or speculation, enjoy it! Don't…
— Robin Meade
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