Subject Quotes

I proceed with the proper subject of this discourse; namely, the further changes in scientific belief, which have occurred within my own recollection, even since the time when I first aspired to authorship, now forty- five years ago.

In LA I was watching At the Movies with Ebert and Roper, it was, nice to see them differentiate between the subject matter and the art form of making the film, and they both gave it thumbs up, and I was kind of pleased at their honesty as far as reviewers go.

I think it is very difficult today to have a reasoned public discourse on any controversial subject. Certainly, election years present a complicating factor.

Today painters do not have to go to a subject matter outside of themselves. Most modern painters work from a different source. They work from within.

I think the best teachers had a real interest in the subject they were teaching and a love for children.

The fact is that even art is subject to fashion.

Self-awareness is value-free. It isn't scary. It doesn't imply that you will subject yourself to needless pain.

There is nothing far-fetched about disappointment as a subject for comedy. It's something we are all too familiar with.

That's my favorite subject because it really levels the playing field for artists these days. You don't have to sell out to the record company. You don't have to get a five hundred thousand dollars, or whatever, and pay them back for the rest of your life to record a record.

It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen.

Conducting! A subject, truly, concerning which much might be written, yet scarcely anything of real importance is to be found in books.

Today it's almost impossible to do it unless you are an actress or writer with power... I wouldn't hesitate right this minute to hire a talented woman if the subject matter were right.

The public character of every public servant is legitimate subject of discussion, and his fitness or unfitness for office may be fairly canvassed by any person.

Her old Grannie and subject must be the first to kiss her hand.

Do not get elated at any victory, for all such victory is subject to the will of God.

My writing is a combination of three elements. The first is travel: not travel like a tourist, but travel as exploration. The second is reading literature on the subject. The third is reflection.

One is that if women's sexuality in Africa wasn't under assault, if women were able to say no, if women weren't subject to predatory attacks by men, or predatory behaviour generally, then you would have a disease in Africa called AIDS. But you wouldn't have a pandemic.

I just was not going to subject my record to the bleak prospects of a primary election.

It's time for women to make their voices heard. Their silence on the subject of war and peace is deafening.

There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.

I think the key to being a journalist is getting your subject to feel comfortable enough to talk about stuff they want to talk about and the stuff they like and don't like, and still feel comfortable about it.

Most of the time common stocks are subject to irrational and excessive price fluctuations in both directions as the consequence of the ingrained tendency of most people to speculate or gamble... to give way to hope, fear and greed.

Our dear country, Iran, throughout history has been subject to threats.

I think poetry can help children deal with the other subjects on the curriculum by enabling them to see a subject in a new way.

Someday, I'd like to sit down with a small group of people, in a relaxed environment, and make a film that feels more independent. That way we can be a little more free in terms of storytelling and subject.

It seems disingenuous to ask a writer why she, or he, is writing about a violent subject when the world and history are filled with violence.

A liberty subject to law and subordinate to the common welfare.

I do think we know that a teacher who knows what he or she is doing, knows their subject matter, and knows how to impart knowledge to kids is a critical piece of closing the achievement gap.

Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change the essential nature of man, even though both sciences yield technologies with a vast power to manipulate the subject matters.

The problem is that too many adults think their kids' lives are simple, or they try to make their lives simple, when their emotional lives are just as complicated as ours. They might have a few less tools to deal with it because they're young, but the emotions are all the same, and the subject matter is all the same.