Subject Matter Quotes
195 quotes by 174 authors
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I do love to eavesdrop. It's inspirational, not only for subject matter but for actual dialogue, the way people talk.
— Lynda Barry
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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
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Los Angeles is an industry town, and it has great facilities and personnel. The disadvantage is that everyone there seems to talk about the same…
— Carter Burwell
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A woman is subject matter enough.
— Claude Chabrol
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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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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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At the current rate of 28 miles of SBInet [Secure Border Initiative network] technology every 4.5 years, it would take 320 years - or until…
— Henry Cuellar
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The student is infinitely more important than the subject matter.
— Nel Noddings
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The workmanship was better than the subject matter.
— Ovid
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The subject matter of the stories on the surface... there seem to be a number of stories about travel.
— Kenneth Koch
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As music is the poetry of sound, so is painting the poetry of sight and the subject-matter has nothing to do with harmony of sound…
— James Whistler
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People can get obsessed with romance, they can get obsessed with political paranoia, they can get obsessed with horror. It's isn't the fault of the…
— Adam Arkin
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Communication of science as subject-matter has so far outrun in education the construction of a scientific habit of mind that to some extent the natural…
— John Dewey
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... one of the main functions of an analogy or model is to suggest extensions of the theory by considering extensions of the analogy, since…
— Mary Hesse
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The validity of mathematical propositions is independent of the actual world-the world of existing subject-matters-is logically prior to it, and would remain unaffected were it…
— Cassius Jackson Keyser
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...if there is a widely shared concept of intentional action... a philosophical analysis of intentional action that is wholly unconstrained by that concept runs the…
— Alfred Mele
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... three main components of leadership: mastery of the subject-matter, ability convincingly to articulate the particular course of action required and a fervent belief in…
— Ninian Stephen
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I do not think one can assess a writer's motives without knowing something of his early development. His subject matter will be determined by the…
— George Orwell
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I think you reveal yourself by what you choose to photograph, but I prefer photographs that tell more about the subject. There's nothing much interesting…
— Mary Ellen Mark
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When subject matter is forced to fit into preconceived patterns, there can be no freshness of vision. Following rules of composition can only lead to…
— Edward Weston
Who Wrote These Subject Matter Quotes
174 authors contributed a total of 195 Subject Matter Quotes, led by these top contributors: