Subject Quotes

That subject has lost its one time appeal to economists as our science has become more abstract, but my interest has even grown more intense as the questions raised by the sociology of science became more prominent.

That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject.

A painting is finished when the subject comes back, when what has caused the painting to be made comes back as an object.

However, the sovereignty of the states is constitutionally defined and recognized, while the powers of the local government in Puerto Rico are defined by, and subject to alteration under, federal statutory law.

I think most people see drawing as subservient to the subject, a sort of meditation, a studying, a searching observation, in my case, for its own sake.

A book should have an intellectual shape and a heft that comes with dealing with a primary subject.

Music has no subject beyond the combinations of notes we hear, for music speaks not only by means of sounds, it speaks nothing but sound.

I always feel the danger because you might always be subject to an unexpected or emergency event.

Nostalgia is a very complicated subject for me. I'm attracted by nostalgia but I refuse it intellectually.

Art is a subject that is inundated with opinions. In fact, that's all it is about is opinions.

To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.

Careers in virtually all academic disciplines are fostered by being a superstar who knows more about one subject than anyone else in the world.

People can get obsessed with romance, they can get obsessed with political paranoia, they can get obsessed with horror. It's isn't the fault of the subject matter that creates the obsession, I don't think.

Every year I teach dozens of students at the University of Birmingham. Most of the students on the gender and sexuality courses are women. I guess this is because the boys don't think that gender applies to them: that it's a subject for girls.

As a physicist, I can state that none of the 18 physicists who signed the Statement works in this field; nor to my knowledge has ever published a paper on this subject.

Sometimes you can tell a large story with a tiny subject.

This time, there have been a lot of interesting discussion about the subject matter and I've had a good time talking about it. And in some of the cases, I'm not just signing books; I'm showing slides and talking about the work.

And as long as you're subject to birth and death, you'll never attain enlightenment.

Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.

I went to college for one semester, and I took every subject I could, and I ended up failing. So I thought to myself, Ever since I was a kid, I've loved expression - and that's when I started thinking about acting.

So I try to re-invent my own eye every time I tackle a new subject. But it's hard, because everybody has style. You can't help it.

Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it. No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does.

The development of the meaning attaching to the personal self, the conscious being, is the subject matter of the history of psychology.

There's a part of me that wishes I'd never said one single solitary word on any subject publicly. Then I could have been the tortured poet, and there's so much mileage in that. But it's too late to stop now.

We were environmentalists of the Teddy Roosevelt theory. We believed in separation of church and state. We believed in the independence of the Supreme Court not being subject to politicians.

My wealth is not a subject I relish discussing.

In every work of art the subject is primordial, whether the artist knows it or not. The measure of the formal qualities is only a sign of the measure of the artist's obsession with his subject; the form is always in proportion to the obsession.

There was never in my mind a desire to give in on the subject of freeing the political prisoners.

I do love to eavesdrop. It's inspirational, not only for subject matter but for actual dialogue, the way people talk.

It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.