Subject Quotes

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.

I have been frequently accused of deliberately twisting subject matter to my point of view. Above all, I know that life for a photographer cannot be a matter of indifference. Opinion often consists of a kind of criticism. But criticism can come out of love.

I talk as I sketch, too, in order to keep their minds off what I'm doing so I'll get the most natural expression I can from them. Also, the talking helps to size up the subject's personality, so I can figure out better how to portray him.

I am still against any kind of censorship. It's a subject in my life that has been very important.

Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.

The purely agitational attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject.

I write songs about real things... The subject dictates the mood and it goes from there, really.

I am aware that a philosopher's ideas are not subject to the judgment of ordinary persons, because it is his endeavour to seek the truth in all things, to the extent permitted to human reason by God.

For if God is a title of the highest power, He must be incorruptible, perfect, incapable of suffering, and subject to no other being; therefore they are not gods whom necessity compels to obey the one greatest God.

I think of painting without subject matter as music without words.

In a world that is constantly changing, there is no one subject or set of subjects that will serve you for the foreseeable future, let alone for the rest of your life. The most important skill to acquire now is learning how to learn.

I - and there are hundreds of thousands of Irishmen who felt on this subject as I do - have always liked my Celtic countrymen and disliked the English nation; it is a national trait of character, and I cannot help it.

For me it's all about personal vision; is there something about a subject that uniquely speaks to me.