Subject Quotes
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Its a beautiful woman's fate to be the subject of conversation where ever she goes.
Oscar Wilde
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Fine writing is a distinct disadvantage. So is unique literary style. They take attention from the subject.
Claude C. Hopkins
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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
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Excuse me? You're a lady?" "I bought a title on the Internet. I own one square inch of Scotland. And you're changing the subject.
Rachel Caine
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For me, photography is as much about the way I respond to the subject as it is about the subject itself.
Alec Soth
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In relation to the subject of your letter of the 3rd inst., I have thought not a little; but I really am not prepared to counsel in the matter.
Gamaliel Bailey
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It's difficult to beat making your living thinking and writing about subjects that matter to you.
Eleanor Holmes Norton
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We didn't talk about devil on the set. My mother and I didn't talk about it. Billy Friedkin and I didn't talk about it. It was a closet subject. But it was the best thing that happened because I had no idea what I was going.
Linda Blair
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Sometimes you can tell a large story with a tiny subject.
Eliot Porter
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She...can talk brillantly upon any subject provided she knows nothing about it.
Oscar Wilde
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Realism is a philosophy as opposed to a style. For me, painting is about observing and recording my existence as accurately as I can, it's my way of understanding the world around me and staying constantly engaged with it, the more carefully and patiently I look at what interests me in the world the more faithfully and honestly I can document it. It is only through intense, subtly nuanced observation that we develop an understanding of the psychology of the subject.
David Kassan
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I think one of the major things a director has to do is to know his subject matter, the subject matter of his script, know the truth and the reality of it. That's very important.
Robert Wise
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Anyone can be a genius, if they pick just one specific subject and study it diligently just 15 minutes each day.
Albert Einstein
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That favorite subject, Myself.
James Boswell
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If you choose your subject selectively - intuitively - the camera can write poetry.
Harry Callahan
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But for all those who don't want the Queen there are easily as many who don't want a President and even more who certainly would not want one if they knew who it would be. As you can readily see, I have given more thought to this subject than most and I have reached my own conclusion. God save the Queen.
Dalton Camp
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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
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Politeness is a tacit agreement that people's miserable defects, whether moral or intellectual, shall on either side be ignored and not be made the subject of reproach.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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I have a certain pool of subject matter that I like to write about, things that interest me: politics, religion, ecology, and relationships between men and women. And that's usually what I focus on.
Don Henley The Eagles
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For me, the subject is of secondary importance: I want to convey what is alive between me and the subject.
Claude Monet
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To see with one's own eyes, to feel and judge without succumbing to the suggestive power of the fashion of the day, to be able to express what one has seen and felt in a snappy sentence or even in a cunningly wrought word - is that not glorious? Is it not a proper subject for congregation?
Albert Einstein
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Prana... is the spirit of mantra. Mantra in turn is the expression of prana. Whatever most engages our prana or vital energy becomes the main subject of our speech.
David Frawley
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I am sorry to have to introduce the subject of Christmas. It is an indecent subject; a cruel, gluttonous subject; a drunken, disorderly subject; a wasteful, disastrous subject; a wicked, cadging, lying, filthy, blasphemous and demoralizing subject.
George Bernard Shaw
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A man who examines each subject from a philosophical standpoint cannot neglect them: he has to omit nothing, and state the truth about each topic.
Aristotle