Subject Quotes
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History studies not just facts and institutions, its real subject is the human spirit.
Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges -
Do you know, Watson," said he, "that it is one of the curses of a mind with a turn like mine that I must look at everything with reference to my own special subject. You look at these scattered houses, and you are impressed by their beauty. I look at them, and the only thought which comes to me is a feeling of their isolation and of the impunity with which crime may be committed there.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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A sexy picture can come from anyone who forms an intimacy with their subject. You can take a sexy picture of your cat if you want to.
Ellen von Unwerth -
Food is a very sensitive subject for so many people.
Suzy Amis -
I don't like any category; categories are not my favorite subject. They're too confining.
Paul Horn -
Everything is a subject; the subject is yourself. It is within yourself that you must look and not around you... The greatest happiness is to reveal it to others, to study oneself, to paint oneself continually in one's work.
Eugene Delacroix -
It's not always the style of tattooing but the rather the subject matter that drives me. I love tattooing anything from mythology to comic book superheroes.
William Webb -
A great artist is never a closed subject, but this catalogue is a milestone production, as useful as it is beautiful.
Norbert Lynton
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There is no more fascinating subject in which a person may become occupied than an examination into the history of his ancestry.
Archibald F. Bennett -
There is nothing so subject to the inconstancy of fortune as war.
Miguel de Cervantes -
The lecturer who is full of his subject is usually very slow in emptying himself.
Evan Esar -
Race seems to me to be less and less a subject worth discussing.
Morgan Freeman -
Whether in print or other media, a good biography is more than a court record or a stringing together of already familiar sources. It breathes life into the subject.
Noel Riley Fitch -
The full weight and mystery of your art rests upon your relationship to your subject matter.
Keith Carter
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The brain is probably the most mysterious subject there is.
Susumu Tonegawa -
I love convincing a reader that an unusual or seemingly ordinary subject is worth his or her time - it's part of the fun for me as a writer.
Susan Orlean -
To write for PC reasons, because you think you ought to be dealing with this subject, is never going to yield anything that is really going to matter to anyone else. It has to matter to you.
Rita Dove -
Mostly the subject of the photograph, which can be anyone really, coming down the street - someone that has no idea. Heroism in photography, just like in a novel, is for everyone.
Hedi Slimane -
The very name of my subject, economics, suggests economizing or maximizing. But Political Economy has gone a long way beyond home economics.
Paul Samuelson -
Some men are one thing on the surface and another underneath. The true poet shows not just the exterior of his subject, but all the contradictions within, and lets the reader draw his own conclusions.
Steven Saylor
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I don't want to follow comedians because I don't want to see what they're thinking about, 'cause then maybe I won't stumble across a thought maybe I had about the same subject.
Nick Thune -
I'm interested in the landscape of the face, the way in which light and shadow fall across the forms. That's really my subject matter.
Paul Emsley -
Faith is not a refuge from reality. It is a demand that we face reality ... The true subject matter of religion is not our own little souls, but the Eternal God and His whole mysterious purpose, and our solemn responsibility to Him.
Evelyn Underhill -
You don't want to cover a subject; you want to uncover it.
Eleanor Duckworth