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Nerds are just deep, and neurotic, fans. Needy fans. We're all nerds, on one subject or another. — Jonathan Lethem
A life spent largely among books, and in the exercise of a literary profession, has very obvious drawbacks, as a subject-matter, when one comes to… — Mary Augusta Ward
Why multiply instances? It is written, the Heavens and the Earth shall fade away like a Vesture; which indeed they are: the Time-vesture of the… — Thomas Carlyle
All things are in flux; the flux is subject to a unifying measure or rational principle. This principle (logos, the hidden harmony behind all change)… — Heraclitus
Many things prevent knowledge, including the obscurity of the subject and the brevity of human life — Protagoras
The inevitable effect of a biographer's hindsight is to belittle the subject's foresight. — Clive James
In any really good subject, one has only to probe deep enough to come to tears. — Edith Wharton
My eyes are green, my hair is silver and I freckly; the rest is subject to change without notice. — Anne McCaffrey
Artistic creation, after all, is not subject to absolute laws, valid from age to age; since it is related to the more general aim of… — Andrei Tarkovsky
The two best interview subjects are children under 10 and people over 70 for the same reason: they say the first thing that comes to… — Art Linkletter
And who can doubt that it will lead to the worst disorders when minds created free by God are compelled to submit slavishly to an… — Galileo Galilei
I constantly meet people who are doubtful, generally without due reason, about their potential capacity [as mathematicians]. The first test is whether you got anything… — John Edensor Littlewood
Some of the most flowery praise you hear on the subject of teams is only hypocrisy. Managers learn to talk a good game about teams… — Tom DeMarco
The subject matter that I am really spending my time on has become an acceptable subject matter. Living, lifestyle, family, is now in the forefront… — Martha Stewart
Every really good creative person in advertising has always had two noticeable characteristics. First, there was no subject he could not easily get interested in...Second,… — James Webb Young
One had to immerse oneself in one's surroundings and intensely study nature or one's subject to understand how to recreate it. — Paul Cezanne
Hurdlers are sprinters with a problem. They're not satisfied just to sprint. Anybody can sprint, some not as well as others of course, but anybody… — Unknown Author
Nothing is more durable than the dynasty of Doubt; for he reigns in the hearts of all his people, but gives satisfaction to none of… — Charles Caleb Colton
I know of nothing which I would choose to have as the subject of my ambition for life than to be kept faithful to my… — Charles Spurgeon
Winston Churchill said that appetite was the most important thing about education. Leadership guru Warren Bennis says he wants to be remembered as 'curious to… — Tom Peters
Theology, Mr. Fortune found, is a more accommodating subject than mathematics; its technique of exposition allows greater latitude. For instance when you are gravelled for… — Sylvia Townsend Warner
The most frightening interview I've ever done was with Dr. Lonnie Thompson of The Ohio State University on the subject of global warming. — Bill Kurtis
I think the invitation offered the non-black reader is to join us in this expression of our familiarity and via that joining, come to understand… — Bell Hooks
I have come, Sire, to complain of one of your subjects who has been so audacious as to kick me in the belly. — Marie Antoinette
To a psychoanalyst, a woman pilot, particularly a married one with children, must prove an interesting as well as an inexhaustible subject. Torn between two… — Louise Thaden

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