Subject Quotes
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Land is an emotional subject with a farmer in India because it is his only means of income.
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History studies not just facts and institutions, its real subject is the human spirit.
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The only purpose in requesting it was to demand the release of the Americans that they’ve detained, given the sensitivity of that subject, I don’t want to go beyond what I said, that I requested the meeting, and I did have a discussion with them, and that’s as much as I can say on it.
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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.
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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.
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There is nothing so subject to the inconstancy of fortune as war.
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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.
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I may juggle the composition, as the strength of a picture is in the composition. Or I may play with the light. But I never interfere with the subject. The subject has to fall into place on its own and, if I don't like it, I don't have to print it.
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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.
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The full weight and mystery of your art rests upon your relationship to your subject matter.
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A great artist is never a closed subject, but this catalogue is a milestone production, as useful as it is beautiful.
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The lecturer who is full of his subject is usually very slow in emptying himself.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The very name of my subject, economics, suggests economizing or maximizing. But Political Economy has gone a long way beyond home economics.
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Race seems to me to be less and less a subject worth discussing.
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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.
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You don't want to cover a subject; you want to uncover it.
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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.
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The world is given to me only once, not one existing and one perceived. Subject and object are only one.
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The brain is probably the most mysterious subject there is.
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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.
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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.
