Subjects Quotes

• The subject of criminal rehabilitation was debated recently in City Hall. It's an appropriate place for this kind of discussion because the city has always employed so many ex-cons and future cons.

  

  Mike Royko
  • Discussion
  • Criminals
  • Rehabilitation

• In writing if it takes over 30 minutes to write the first two paragraphs select another subject.

  

  Raymond Aron
  • Writing
  • Minutes
  • Paragraph

• Skepticism is not a position; skepticism is an approach to claims, in the same way that science is not a subject but a method.

  

  Michael Shermer
  • Position
  • Approach
  • Skepticism

• Yossarian decided to change the subject. "Now you're changing the subject." he pointed out diplomatically. "I'll bet I can name two things to be miserable about for every one you can name to be thankful for.

  

  Joseph Heller
  • Names
  • Miserable
  • Subjects

• I am interested not in individual readings, but in constructing networks of images and meanings capable of reflecting the complexity of the subject.

  

  Wolfgang Tillmans
  • Reading
  • Individual
  • Capable

• The theoretical broadening which comes from having many humanities subjects on the campus is offset by the general dopiness of the people who study these things.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Humanity
  • Study
  • Theoretical

• I was never ignorant, as far as being experienced in classrooms and learning about different subjects and actually soaking it up.

  

  Nipsey Hussle
  • Different
  • Ignorant
  • Soaking

• As Claude LeLouche said, his favorite American director is Sergio Leone. Not because I would be American, but because I was dealing with subject matter that an American could have just as easily dealt with.

  

  Sergio Leone
  • Matter
  • Said
  • Directors

• The particular, eternally persisting, elementary physical stuff of the world, according to the standard presentations of relativistic quantum field theories, consists (unsurprisingly) of relativistic quantum fields... They have nothing whatsoever to say on the subject of where those fields came from, or of why the world should have consisted of the particular kinds of fields it does, or of why it should have consisted of fields at all, or of why there should have been a world in the first place. Period. Case closed. End of story.

  

  David Albert
  • World
  • Kind
  • Should

• For me, if the writing and - by extension - the subject matter and the characters are all good, it doesn't matter if it's film or TV. Each medium has great things going for it.

  

  Adam Croasdell
  • Writing
  • Character
  • Film

• I could not write about a subject sacred to me because I would be too flippant. Fortunately, there are no subjects sacred to me.

  

  Joseph Heller
  • Writing
  • Sacred
  • Flippant

• Most persons who indulge in second thought don't do much thinking when the subject is presented for first thought.

  

  William Feather
  • Persons
  • Firsts
  • Indulge

• I never wanted to be commissioned to paint portraits. I like to choose my own subject and make a character study from it.

  

  William Dobell
  • Character
  • Wanted
  • Paint

• I felt the need to get back to painting and I thought the best way was to start drawing, so I enrolled in a life drawing class. I soon discovered that people made very interesting subjects and I am still surprised that I had never discovered it before.

  

  Peter Wright
  • Painting
  • Discovered
  • Subjects

• All the people I've met, many outside of cinema, knew everything perfectly about one thing or one subject or one area.

  

  Sergio Leone
  • People
  • Cinema
  • Areas

• I must react selectively, contrarily, arbitrarily, perversely, and always with intensity directly from the subject.

  

  Keith Crown
  • Subjects
  • Intensity

• And for the season it was winter, and they that know the winters of that country know them to be sharp and violent, and subject to cruel and fierce storms.

  

  William Bradford
  • Country
  • Winter
  • Fierce

• Democracy, or "majority rules," is another trick of our society to force us to do things we don't want to do. Even if we actually lived in a pure democracy (and the system we do live in is not even close), where everyone got a single vote on every subject, forcing the minority to obey the majority is no different to one man, if he had the power, forcing everyone else to do what he wanted them to-simply because he could.

  

  William J. Murray
  • Democracy
  • Majority
  • Minorities

• I think any person who goes to Rikers is criminalized, even just for visiting. I go back every week to see my friends in there. When you go to see a criminal, you are by relation a criminal and subject to be treated like one.

  

  Cecily McMillan
  • Persons
  • Week
  • Relation

• People think: 'If this photographer's looking like a big jerk-off, maybe it's okay if I do.' I like to catch my subjects off balance a bit.

  

  Mick Rock
  • Thinking
  • Balance
  • Photographer

• Its subject is the slow and erratic process by which the peoples of the British Isles learnt - and then for long periods forgot - about the 'Safeguard of the Sea', as the 15th century phrase had it, meaning the use of the sea for national defence, and the defence of those who used the sea.

  

  Nicholas Rodger
  • Process
  • Century
  • Defence

• A publisher should always be on the receiving end. He should take an interest in almost any subject and remain anonymous, letting the author take center stage.

  

  Cass Canfield
  • Should
  • Interest
  • Stage

• I want women to be the subject, not the object.

  

  Jill Soloway
  • Subjects
  • Objects

• It's important to let your subjects be themselves.

  

  Herb Ritts
  • Important
  • Subjects

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