Subject Matter Quotes

195 quotes by 174 authors

I do love to eavesdrop. It's inspirational, not only for subject matter but for actual dialogue, the way people talk. — Lynda Barry
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
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
A woman is subject matter enough. — Claude Chabrol
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
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
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
The student is infinitely more important than the subject matter. — Nel Noddings
The workmanship was better than the subject matter. — Ovid
The subject matter of the stories on the surface... there seem to be a number of stories about travel. — Kenneth Koch
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
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
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
... 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
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
...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
... 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
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
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
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

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