Subject Quotes
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My wealth is not a subject I relish discussing.
J. Paul Getty -
Any idealism is a proper subject for art.
Lafcadio Hearn
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This is a serious analysis of a ridiculous subject, which is of course the opposite of what is usual in economics.
Paul Krugman -
Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
Oscar Wilde -
For me, the human face is the most important subject of the cinema.
Ingmar Bergman -
I keep the subject of my inquiry constantly before me, and wait till the first dawning opens gradually, by little and little, into a full and clear light.
Isaac Newton -
I've never used my weight to get a laugh. That is, used my size as the subject for humor. You never saw me stuck in a door-way or stuck in a chair.
Fatty Arbuckle -
About no subject is there less philosophizing than about philosophy.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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Not only did she [Marilyn Monroe] master her own image, create it and ultimately control it, she was the subject of many of the great masters of photography of the 20th century.
Gail Levin -
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) bound opposites together in a unified tension, which is like that of a lyre, where a stable harmonious sound emerges from the tension of the opposing forces that arise from the bow bound together by the string.
Heraclitus -
Art is subject to arbitrary fashion.
Kary Mullis -
Like all people who try to exhaust a subject, he exhausted his listeners.
Oscar Wilde -
My father never forced me, but chemistry was my best subject.
Yusuf Hamied -
Descartes spent far too much time in bed subject to the persistent hallucination that he was thinking. You are not free from a similar disorder.
Flann O'Brien
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Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.
Gaston Bachelard -
The so-called Pythagoreans, who were the first to take up mathematics, not only advanced this subject, but saturated with it, they fancied that the principles of mathematics were the principles of all things.
Aristotle -
For me, photography is as much about the way I respond to the subject as it is about the subject itself.
Alec Soth -
Madam, I could teach lessons in hell on the subject of ‘want.’
Connie Brockway -
It's difficult to beat making your living thinking and writing about subjects that matter to you.
Eleanor Holmes Norton -
I'm a reporter – if I don't interview someone, I don't have much to say, and I definitely can't just sit down and knock out 800 words on any subject you give me.
Ira Glass
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A good style must, first of all, be clear. It must not be mean or above the dignity of the subject. It must be appropriate.
Aristotle -
Its a beautiful woman's fate to be the subject of conversation where ever she goes.
Oscar Wilde -
Fine writing is a distinct disadvantage. So is unique literary style. They take attention from the subject.
Claude C. Hopkins -
You're not going to get any true confessions out of me," she said. "I'm a Leo, and our thing is changing the subject.
Ira Levin