Topics Quotes

• To Englishmen, life is a topic, not an activity.

  

  William Henry Harrison
  • Life
  • Activity
  • Englishmen

• There's always opposition when you speak on topics like I'm speaking on. But I'm a black man in America. I grew up black in America. You can't tell me that what I've experienced and what I've seen is not true.

  

  Eric Reid
  • America
  • Opposition
  • Black Man

• If you keep working hard and not take 'no' for an answer, you achieve.

  

  Joe Bonamassa Black Country Communion
  • Hard
  • Achieve
  • Answer

• [Sexual abuse] is such a sharp, potent topic that we really should have discussions about more openly and more often.

  

  Rachael Taylor
  • Abuse
  • Should Have
  • Topics

• When you know absolutely nothing about the topic, make your forecast by asking a carefully selected probability sample of 300 others who don't know the answer either.

  

  Edgar Fiedler
  • Answers
  • Asking
  • Probability

• After tea, we discussed a variety of topics before the fire; and Mrs. Micawber was good enough to sing us (in a small, thin, flat voice, which I remembered to have considered, when I first knew her, the very table-beer of acoustics) the favourite ballads of "The Dashing White Sergeant", and "Little Tafflin".

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Remembered
  • Considered
  • Discussed

• I don't know if there are topics that I unconsciously avoid, but as soon as they pop up in my writing, I try to take on those topics, whether or not I publish the poems.

  

  Denise Duhamel
  • Writing
  • Poems
  • Whether

• Thank you, World Screen, for regularly providing me with excellent articles on international media topics. For me, World Screen is an important means of information-well-structured and reader-oriented.

  

  Gerhard Zeiler
  • Information
  • Screen
  • Articles

• I'm always looking for something to engage my imagination and take me on a little mental voyage. I just want a new topic in my life.

  

  Steve Martin
  • Imagination
  • Littles
  • Voyages

• Underhand euphemism are used, not so much to conceal offence and to deliberately disguise a topic and deceive

  

  Kate Burridge
  • Disguise
  • Deceiving
  • Offence

• I like to talk about very different topics. I like to jump around a lot because I don't want people to come see me and then for an hour I tell jokes about being a little person. I just don't want that to happen. I understand that it's part of me, that's the first thing that you notice and it's something that people are curious about.

  

  Brad Williams
  • Happens
  • Jokes
  • Notice

• It is not a liberty of circumstance, conceded to us alone, that we wish; it is the adoption absolute of the principle that no man, born red, black or white, can be the property of his fellow man.

  

  Toussaint Louverture
  • Black
  • Alone
  • Adoption

• I guess, topic to topic, you could consider me a left-leaning person.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Persons
  • Left
  • Topics

• Seeing clients as people with goals and desires helps you to understand their perspective, animating their existence beyond a line item in a sales pipeline report.

  

  Rana el Kaliouby
  • Goals
  • Existence
  • Desires

• You won't remember what it was like when your technology didn't recognize when you are sad or angry.

  

  Rana el Kaliouby
  • Remember
  • Technology
  • Like

• Reading has always been in the chief joy, a never-ending topic of conversation, and often a lifesaver, in my family.

  

  Elizabeth Borton de Trevino
  • Reading
  • Conversation
  • Chiefs

• People can't help what topics cut them deep. It all depends on who's inferring - and what the contexts of their lives are at the time.

  

  Sarah Silverman
  • People
  • Depends
  • Topics

• Most great books have been about striving in some sense. In a sense, money is the great topic of the novel. You couldn't necessarily say that about poetry.

  

  Chad Harbach
  • Book
  • Novel
  • Strive

• It does not seem to me that the evidence concerning the being of a God, and concerning immortality, is such as to enable us to assert anything in regard to either of these topics.

  

  Charles Eliot Norton
  • Evidence
  • Seems
  • Atheism

• I like to tell untold true stories, or the lesser-known aspects of larger, familiar stories. I think people or topics that are slightly on the edge or outside the mainstream often reveal more than better-known stories.

  

  Nancy Kates
  • Stories
  • Mainstream
  • Topics