Subject Quotes
2685 Subject quotes by 1904 unique authors
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I tend to arrive in the rehearsal process with very strongly developed ideas about what I want to do. But I don't like those ideas…
— Trevor Nunn
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The full weight and mystery of your art rests upon your relationship to your subject matter.
— Keith Carter
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It is simultaneously the blessing and the curse of the reflective Christian that believers are called to live out their faith in the church. No…
— Daniel Taylor
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Cooking is a subject you can never know enough about. There is always something new to discover.
— Bobby Flay
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Subliminal perception is a subject that virtually no one wants to believe exists, and -- if it does exist -- they much less believe that…
— Wilson Bryan Key
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The flow of people in a setting, their changing relationships to each other and their environment, and their constantly changing expressions and movements - all…
— Constantine Manos
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On the subject of dress almost no one, for one or another reason, feels truly indifferent: if their own clothes do not concern them, somebody…
— Elizabeth Bowen
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Whenever Roosevelt (Theodore) expected a visitor, he sat up late the night before, reading up on the subject in which he knew his guest was…
— Dale Carnegie
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Most of us are not really approaching the subject in order to find out what Christianity says; we are approaching it in the hope of…
— C.S. Lewis
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Surrealism! What is Surrealism? In my opinion, it is above all a reawakening of the poetic idea in art, the reintroduction of the subject but…
— Paul Delvaux
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A subject to which few intellectuals ever give a thought is the right to be a vagrant, the freedom to wander. Yet vagrancy is a…
— Isabelle Eberhardt
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Today there are more African-Americans under correctional control — in prison or jail, on probation or parole — than were enslaved in 1850, a decade…
— Michelle Alexander
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O take heart, my brothers. Even now... with every leader & every resource & every strategy of every nation on Earth arrayed against Her -…
— Kenneth Patchen
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We resist mindlessness of any kind. Again, drugs, like television, are fine for other people. The more enslaved they are, the easier it is for…
— Blanche Barton
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I would go to sketch groups and draw. I really enjoyed the subject matter, but I wasn't good at it.
— Jack Prelutsky
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The difference between the casual impression and the intensified image is about as great as that separating the average business letter from a poem. If…
— Harry Callahan
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Novels shouldn’t aspire to answer questions, and I wouldn’t presume to offer advice about love or marriage in any case. What’s fascinating to me about…
— Nell Freudenberger
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Do you tell me that the Bible is against our rights? Then I say that our claims do not rest upon a book written no…
— Ernestine Rose
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Again, I shall be told that the law presumes the husband to be kind, affectionate, and ready to provide for and protect his wife. But…
— Ernestine Rose
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To become enlightened is not just to slip into some disconnected euphoria, an oceanic feeling of mystic oneness apart from ordinary reality. It is not…
— Robert Thurman
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What’s strange is how many beginning writers seem to think that grammar is irrelevant, or that they are somehow above or beyond this subject more…
— Francine Prose
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In teaching, the other main problem related to type is the students’ interest. Intuitives and sensing types differ greatly in what they find interesting in…
— Isabel Briggs Myers
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Like any other composer of opera, I choose a subject not for polemical reasons, but because it contains vivid characters in highly charged dramatic situations.
— Carlisle Floyd
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Geisha because when I was living in Japan, I met a fellow whose mother was a geisha, and I thought that was kind of fascinating…
— Arthur Golden
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You cannot meet someone for a moment, or even cast eyes on someone in the street, without changing. That is my subject.
— Carolyn Kizer
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