Subject Quotes

2685 Subject quotes by 1904 unique authors

Dead is when the chemists take over the subject. — Arthur Leonard Schawlow
To pass to the deluge, and beyond it, and to come to close quarters with our proper division, the origin of Romance itself is a… — George Saintsbury
Abstract understanding doesn't mean arbitrary sloshing and messing. Abstract art is controlled visual magic based on laws and methodology. Abstraction generally involves implication, suggestion and… — Robert Genn
After reading Edgar Allan Poe. Something the critics have not noticed: a new literary world pointing to the literature of the 20th Century. Scientific miracles,… — Jules de Goncourt
The artist is an interpreter of Nature. People learn to love Nature through pictures. To the artist, nothing is in vain; nothing beneath his notice.… — William Morris Hunt
Nuclear war is such an emotional subject that many people see the weapons themselves as the common enemy of humanity. — Herman Kahn
Let it be known that this is the true Church, in which there is confession and penance and which takes a health-promoting care of the… — Lactantius
A child's slowness in any subject indicates a deficiency in his environment, educational or otherwise. — Shinichi Suzuki
Truly, as the ancients taught us, there is nothing under the moon, however fine, that is not subject to corruption. — C.J. Sansom
Is it a coincidence that stories from the private life became more popular just as the grand hope for public redemption through revolution was beginning… — Susan Griffin
I think that former leaders are best seen occasionally and not too often heard - particularly on the subject of their successors! — Charles Kennedy
The subject matter is autobiographical, it's all to do with hope and memory and sensuality and involvement, really. — Lucian
Men and women shall have equal rights throughout the United States and every place subject to its jurisdiction. — Alice Paul
My point is that when you look at a rabbit and can see only a pest, or vermin, or a meal, or a commodity, or… — Matthew Scully
Both art and science are bent on the understanding of the forces that shape existence, and both call for a dedication to what is. Neither… — Rudolf Arnheim
The present is always unsettled, no one has had time to contemplate it in tranquillity . I was a painter before I was a writer… — Isak Dinesen
Every intelligent painter carries the whole culture of modern painting in his head. It is his real subject, of which everything he paints in both… — Robert Motherwell
Mental events, it is said, are not passive happenings but the acts of a subject. — Hermann Ebbinghaus
In the end I think theatre has only one subject: justice — Edward Bond
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
My idea of an educated person is one who can converse on one subject for more than two minutes. — Robert Andrews Millikan
If the book is finished—published and on the shelf—I do not think of revising it. But if I'm not finished psychologically with characters, they will… — Antonya Nelson
A cleric who loses his faith abandons his calling; a philosopher who loses his redefines his subject. — Ernest Gellner
Nowledge which... transcends the bounds, the prejudices and prejudgements of any one society and culture is not an illusion but, on the contrary, a glorious… — Ernest Gellner
The true subject of poetry is the loss of the beloved. — Faiz Ahmad Faiz

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