100+ Subjects Quotes | InspiringQuotes.us

source: Howard Pyle, Newell Convers Wyeth, John Edward Dell, Walt Reed (2000). “Visions of adventure: N.C. Wyeth and the Brandywine artists”, Watson-Guptill

topic: Mind, Projects, Subjects

Ignorance of certain subjects is a great part of wisdom.

- Hugo Grotius

topic: Ignorance, Certain, Subjects

A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it.

- Ida Tarbell

topic: Mind, Subjects, Detached

No matter what the subject, the subject is always love.

- Ingrid Bengis

topic: Matter, Subjects

You're not going to get any true confessions out of me," she said. "I'm a Leo, and our thing is changing the subject.

- Ira Levin

source: Ira Levin (1972). “The Stepford Wives: A Novel”, Random House Incorporated

topic: Confession, Said, Subjects

The nude, if you tackle it, is a very fascinating subject, especially for a woman.

- Isabel Bishop

topic: Beauty, Women Beauty, Subjects

The nature of love is that it catches you off-guard, subjects you to rules you have never faced, some of them contradictory.

- Ivan Doig

topic: Love Is, Contradictory, Subjects

Pain is truth; all else is subject to doubt.

- J. M. Coetzee

source: J. M. Coetzee (1980). “Waiting for the Barbarians”, Penguin Group USA

topic: Pain, Doubt, Subjects

I'd be a very easy therapist's subject.

- James Nesbitt

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Easy, Therapists, Subjects

Drop the whole subject and put it out of your mind and let your subconscious do its thing.

- James Webb Young

topic: Mind, Subconscious, Subjects

A wild creature is not subject to any will except its own

- Jay Griffiths

topic: Creatures, Subjects, Wild Creatures

American pictures usually have no subject, only a story. A pretty woman is not a subject. Julia Roberts doing this and that is not a subject.

- Jean-Luc Godard

topic: Pretty Woman, Stories, Subjects, Julia

Pick up a rifle and you change instantly from a subject to a citizen.

- Jeff Cooper

topic: Rifles, Citizens, Subjects

What I do is try to stay away from the hot subjects.

- Jerry Bruckheimer

topic: Trying, Hot, Subjects

The subject says: I see first many things which dance... then everything gradually becomes connected.

- Jim Morrison

topic: Firsts, Connected, Subjects

Make Things rather than Persons the subjects of conversations.

- John Adams

topic: Conversation, Persons, Subjects

The writers who accomplish most are those who compel thought on the highest and most profoundly interesting subjects.

- John Lancaster Spalding

topic: Interesting, Accomplish, Subjects

There are some subjects that can only be tackled in fiction.

- John le Carre

topic: Fiction, Subjects

When you're dealing with serious subjects, there is a pressure to be absolutely sure that you know what you're doing.

- John Oliver

topic: Pressure, Serious, Subjects, Serious Subjects

Minds which never rest are subject to many digressions.

- Joseph Joubert

topic: Mind, Subjects

Painting is the subject of painting.

- Joseph Raffael

topic: Painting, Subjects

I'm not easily inhibited by the fact that I don't know something about a subject. It doesn't stop me from dabbling in it.

- Joshua Lederberg

topic: Facts, Subjects, Dabbling

Have the utmost respect for your subjects. Love them.

- Joyce Tenneson

topic: Subjects

Death is not my best subject.

- Judd Nelson

topic: Subjects

I find myself a fascinating subject.

- Juliana Hatfield

topic: Subjects

There's science and there's science, is all I'm saying. Where humans are the subjects, it's mostly not science

- Karen Joy Fowler

topic: Humans, Subjects

About no subject is there less philosophizing than about philosophy.

- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

topic: Philosophy, Subjects

The subject of history is the gradual realization of all that is practically necessary.

- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

topic: Realization, Literature, Subjects

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

- Keith Crown

topic: Intensity, Subjects

The degradation to which you subject others comes back, sooner or later, to haunt you,

- Ken Follett

topic: Degradation, Sooner Or Later, Subjects

Whomever you're going to interview, you have to be interested in what it is you want to know from them. You have to be interested in the subject.

- Kurt Loder

topic: Want, Interviews, Subjects

Any idealism is a proper subject for art.

- Lafcadio Hearn

topic: Art, Idealism, Subjects

I'm attracted to subjects who overcome tremendous suffering and learn to cope emotionally with it

- Laura Hillenbrand

topic: Suffering, Overcoming, Subjects

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

- Leonard Nimoy

topic: Vision, Speak, Subjects, Personal Vision

Once form has been smashed, it has been smashed for good, and once a forbidden subject has been released, it has been released for good.

- Louise Bogan

topic: Form, Forbidden, Subjects

Math is one of my favorite subjects.

- Macaulay Culkin

topic: Math, My Favorite, Subjects, Favorite Subject

No one can speak well, unless he thoroughly understands his subject.

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

topic: Speak, Wells, Subjects

Finding the right subject is the hardest part.

- Mary Ellen Mark

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Hardest, Subjects, Findings

I always wanted to photograph the universal subjects.

- Mary Ellen Mark

topic: Photograph, Wanted, Subjects

I've always been slightly embittered about computers because it was the only subject I failed at school.

- Matt Frewer

source: "Matt Frewer Takes Eureka to the Max". Interview with Matt Webb Mitovich, www.tvguide.com. August 29, 2006.

topic: School, Computer, Subjects

The one thing that I do is take really complicated systems and subjects and make them accessible to regular people.

- Matt Taibbi

topic: People, Complicated, Subjects

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

- Miuccia Prada

topic: Nostalgia, Complicated, Subjects

The style depends on the subject.

- Mohsen Makhmalbaf

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Style, Subjects

Race seems to me to be less and less a subject worth discussing.

- Morgan Freeman

topic: Race, Subjects, Discussing

Nations whose nationalism is destroyed are subject to ruin.

- Muammar al-Gaddafi

topic: Military, Ruins, Subjects

After all, everyone's favorite subject is themselves.

- Neil Strauss

source: Neil Strauss (2011). “The Game and Rules of the Game”, p.55, Canongate Books

topic: Subjects, Favorite Subject

Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.

- Niels Bohr

topic: Serious, Subjects, Jokes

I love black-and-white movies that are about contemporary subjects.

- Noah Baumbach

topic: Black And White, Contemporary, Subjects

Betrayal... is my favorite subject.

- Norman Jewison

topic: Betrayal, My Favorite, Subjects, Favorite Subject

I do believe that movies are subject to a million interpretations.

- Oliver Stone

topic: Believe, Interpretation, Subjects, Different Interpretations

Noah and his family were the only loyal and obedient subjects to the legal power: they alone were saved

- Orson Pratt

topic: Loyal, Subjects

My subject is my life, and my life is my subject.

- Otto von Bismarck

topic: Aries, Life Is, Subjects

You are not your body. It is just something you wear for a while, because living in the earthplane is infinitely more meaningful and more involved if you are encased in its trappings and subject to its rules.

- P. M. H. Atwater

source: P. M. H. Atwater (2004). “We Live Forever: The Real Truth about Death”, p.89, ARE Press

topic: Meaningful, Body, Subjects

My wealth is not a subject I relish discussing.

- Paul Getty

topic: Wealth, Economy, Subjects

Art is the writer not having control, but the subject having control of the writer.

- Paula Vogel

topic: Art, Art Is, Subjects

The whole object of science is to synthesize, and so simplify; and did we but know the uttermost of a subject we could make it singularly clear.

- Percival Lowell

source: "Mars and its Canals". Book by Percival Lowell, Preface, 1906.

topic: Simplify, Clear, Subjects

No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.

- Peter Drucker

topic: Inspirational, Teach, Subjects

There's nothing anyone can do except change the subject.

- Philibert Orry

topic: War, History, Subjects

I preferred to study those subjects that were of interest to me.

- Philip Emeagwali

topic: Study, Interest, Subjects

The proper Science and Subject for Man's Contemplation is Man himself. [Fr., La vraie science et le vrai etude de l'homme c'est l'homme.]

- Pierre Charron

topic: Men, Contemplation, Subjects

All things are subject to decay and change...

- Polybius

source: Polybius (1812). “The General History of the Wars of the Romans”, p.401

topic: Decay, Subjects

We declare, say , define, and pronounce that it is absolutely necessary for the salvation of every human creature to be subject to the Roman Pontiff.

- Pope Boniface VIII

topic: Salvation, Creatures, Subjects

Do not talk a little on many subjects, but much on a few.

- Pythagoras

topic: Littles, Subjects

There was a time when no difficult subjects were ever aired in the 'Lady', and sadly, life isn't like that.

- Rachel Johnson

topic: Difficult, Subjects, Difficult Subjects

The subject itself is of no account; what matters is the way it is presented.

- Raoul Dufy

topic: What Matters, Way, Subjects

One wants to see the artifice of the thing as well as the subject.

- Richard Diebenkorn

topic: Want, Wells, Subjects

People confuse the subject of the joke with the target of the joke, and they're very rarely the same.

- Ricky Gervais

topic: People, Target, Subjects

Never fear the truth. No bad can come of discussing a true subject. No bad at all.

- Ricky Gervais

topic: Never Fear, Subjects, Discussing

My career seems to be a career of non-specific subjects which are all over the place.

- Ridley Scott

topic: Careers, Subjects

If as individuals we can improve the geography only slightly, if at all, perhaps the more appropriately scaled subject for reshaping is ourselves.

- Robert Adam

topic: Individual, Geography, Subjects

An aphorism is a single sentence that totally exhausts its subject.

- Robert Breault

topic: Aphorism, Subjects, Sentences, Single Sentence

Everyone is a reactionary about subjects he understands.

- Robert Conquest

source: "Scourge and poet" by Andrew Brown, www.theguardian.com. February 14, 2003.

topic: Subjects

When shucked and released from its edges, the windowless subject stands alone as its own thing.

- Robert Genn

topic: Stand Alone, Subjects

A subject emerges from an interaction between my self, my I, and my medium.

- Robert Motherwell

topic: Self, Mediums, Subjects

The search for a meaningful painting subject is a search for ourselves.

- Robert Reynolds

topic: Meaningful, Painting, Subjects

Being a mother is hard and it wasn't a subject I ever studied.

- Ruby Wax

source: "Happy and Crappy Days As a New Mom" by Chelsey Wilson, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 13, 2014.

topic: Mother, Being A Mother, Subjects

Often we don't notice the stringent rules to which our culture subjects us.

- Sara Sheridan

topic: Culture, Subjects

A man who has nothing in particular to recommend him discusses all sorts of subjects at random as if he knew everything.

- Sei Shonagon

source: Sei Shōnagon (1967). “The Pillow Book of Sei Shōnagon”

topic: Men, Subjects, Particular

There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.

- Seneca the Elder

topic: Subjects, Persons, Remorse, Whips

Logic is the science of the laws of thought, as thought,--that is of the necessary conditions to which thought considered in itself is a subject.

- Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet

topic: Law, Logic, Subjects

We need to have a talk on the subject of what's yours and what's mine.

- Steig Larsson

topic: Needs, Subjects

I've always tried to be fair to my subjects. That's easy when they are as likable and admirable as Lewis and Clark, or Eisenhower.

- Stephen Ambrose

topic: Easy, Admirable, Subjects, Lewis And Clark

I am interested in the subject which is Russia.

- Tatyana Tolstaya

topic: Russia, Subjects

The songs are definitely all about me. I am my favourite subject.

- Teddy Thompson

topic: Song, Favourite, Subjects

The universe is a communion of subjects, not a collection of objects.

- Thomas Berry

source: Thomas Berry (2010). “Evening Thoughts”, p.17, Counterpoint

topic: Inspiring, Communion, Subjects

The conscious experience of being a subject arises when a single organism learns to enslave itself.

- Thomas Metzinger

source: Thomas Metzinger (2009). “The Ego Tunnel: The Science of the Mind and the Myth of the Self”, p.96, Basic Books

topic: Conscious, Arise, Subjects

Happy thou that learnest from another's griefs, not to subject thyself to the same.

- Tibullus

source: "Carmina". III. 6. 43,

topic: Grief, Example, Subjects

Art cannot be subordinate to its subject, otherwise it is not art but biography.

- Tom Stoppard

topic: Art, Biographies, Subjects

Words can make the illness a subject I can master, and not one that one simply emotes over.

- Tony Judt

topic: Illness, Masters, Subjects, Emote

I don't pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.

- Vikram Seth

topic: Choose Me, Subjects

Most photographers seem to operate with a pane of glass between themselves and their subjects. They just can't get inside and know the subject.

- W. Eugene Smith

topic: Glasses, Photographer, Subjects

I've always had an abundance of material about the subjects of my biographies.

- Walter Isaacson

topic: Biographies, Abundance, Subjects, My Biography

Subject has the variety of life.

- Walter J. Phillips

topic: Subjects, Variety

By life's very nature we are compelled to find and maintain balance, or be subject to the symptoms of the lack thereof.

- Wes Fesler

topic: Balance, Symptoms, Subjects

My subject is war, and the pity of war.

- Wilfred Owen

topic: War, Pity, Subjects

Logic is an old subject, and since 1879 it has been a great one.

- Willard Van Orman Quine

topic: Logic, Subjects

Generous souls Are still most subject to credulity.

- William Davenant

source: Sir William Davenant (1872). “Dramatic Works of William D'Avenant”, p.28

topic: Soul, Stills, Subjects

Ultimately the product that any writer has to sell is not the subject being written about, but who he or she is.

- William Zinsser

source: William Zinsser (2012). “On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition: An Informal Guide to Writing Nonfiction”, p.5, Harper Collins

topic: Subjects, Writing Well

On the Web no subject is sacrosanct. No one, from icon to unknown, is off-limits.

- Willow Bay

topic: Icons, Limits, Subjects

No student knows his subject: the most he knows is where and how to find out the things he does not know

- Woodrow Wilson

topic: Doe, Students, Subjects

That's a huge subject - a writer refusing to do publicity but writing about publicity.

- Ann Goldstein

source: Source: www.guernicamag.com

topic: Writing, Publicity, Subjects

I wanted [photography] to be more than a document, to be something that is as close as you could possibly be to the subject.

- Chris Killip

topic: Photography, Wanted, Subjects

Math - it's not my best subject.

- Heather O'Rourke

topic: Math, Subjects

When you look at my photos, just look into the eyes of my subjects. The eyes say so much.

- Jamel Shabazz

source: Source: therumpus.net

topic: Eye, Looks, Subjects

The great documentary subjects find you, you don't really search for them.

- Jeremy Coon

source: Source: www.indiewire.com

topic: Documentaries, Subjects

You always have to find something to say about the subject and in seven cases out of ten there is nothing to say.

- Jonathan Meades

source: Source: thequietus.com

topic: Seven, Cases, Subjects

I come at a subject from a profoundly photographic level. I am not interested in pictures that ultimately don't work as pictures.

- Michael Light

topic: Levels, Not Interested, Subjects

I prefer working in good cinema, wherever it is. I like subjects that have a universal appeal.

- Om Puri

topic: Cinema, Appeals, Subjects

If you're not excited about the subject, the viewer won't be either.

- Paul Strisik

topic: Excited, Subjects, Viewers

I found out that I could not choose a subject, throw it out of focus, and then have a good picture. I found that I had to learn to see No-focus from the beginning.

- Ralph Eugene Meatyard

topic: Focus, Found, Subjects

In photography, you always have both the medium and the depicted subject at the same time.

- Thomas Ruff

topic: Photography, Mediums, Subjects

I know now that before I take a picture I have to be sure about how I feel about the subjects. What I don't know is if I should explain to them what I'm doing while I'm photographing them.

- Tina Barney

topic: Should, Feels, Subjects

I've always been a history buff. It was one of the few subjects at school that really, really caught me.

- Tom Mison

topic: School, Caught, Subjects

History is no easy science; its subject, human society, is inifinitely complex.

- Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges

topic: Easy, Humans, Subjects, Human Society

No subject is unsuitable for comedy.

- Peter Baynham

source: "Dead funny" by Peter Baynham, www.theguardian.com. April 6, 2004.

topic: Comedy, Subjects

You don't want to cover a subject; you want to uncover it.

- Eleanor Duckworth

source: Eleanor Ruth Duckworth (2006). “"The Having of Wonderful Ideas" and Other Essays on Teaching and Learning”

topic: Want, Subjects

Truth in my love for the subject will produce superior results.

- Robert Toth

topic: Results, Produce, Subjects

Usually, the subject matter of the image is not the subject of the work.

- Roni Horn

topic: Matter, Subject Matter, Subjects

The best subjects are always people, who never fail to amaze me by their unpredictability.

- Ronnie James Dio

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: People, Failing, Subjects, Unpredictability

It's the not the subject that interests me as much as my perception of the subject.

- Roy DeCarava

topic: Perception, Interest, Subjects

If a nonartist teaches a subject called art, it is nonart.

- Ruth Asawa

source: Daniell Cornell, Ruth Asawa (2006). “The Sculpture of Ruth Asawa: Contours in the Air”, University of California Press

topic: Art, Teach, Subjects

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

- Jill Soloway

source: Source: www.chicagotribune.com

topic: Want, I Want A Woman, Subjects

I know nothing about this subject, but I do have prejudices, which I am more than happy to share with you.

- Leon Botstein

topic: Prejudice, Share, Subjects

The subject of history is the life of peoples and mankind.

- Leo Tolstoy

source: Leo Tolstoy (graf) (194?). “War and peace: a novel”, New York

topic: Mankind, Subjects, Single People

Anything I've not experienced I do not look to for a subject. I have to feel it.

- Abbas Kiarostami

source: Source: aaroncutler.tumblr.com

topic: Looks, Feels, Subjects

The mind that engages in subjects of too great variety becomes confused and weakened.

- Leonardo da Vinci

topic: Confused, Mind, Subjects

No one wants to see or read about a dull subject. I don't consider myself a dull subject.

- Jayne Mansfield

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Dull, Want, Subjects

Trust is everything between two artists, or between subject and artist. You have to have trust or nothing good will come out of it.

- Patti Smith

source: Source: www.pbs.org

topic: Artist, Two, Subjects

Avoid making yourself the subject of conversation.

- Jean de la Bruyere

topic: Conversation, Egotism, Subjects

The subject of a rumor is always the last to hear it.

- Stefan Zweig

source: Stefan Zweig (2008). “The Post-office Girl”, New York Review of Books

topic: Rumor, Lasts, Subjects

Love, our subject: we've trained it like ivy to our walls.

- Adrienne Rich

source: Adrienne Rich (2016). “Collected Poems: 1950-2012”, p.386, W. W. Norton & Company

topic: Wall, Ivy, Subjects

Home is always the impossible subject, multilayered and maddening.

- Paul Theroux

topic: Home, Impossible, Subjects

Don't shoot til the subject hits you in the pit of your stomach.

- Lisette Model

topic: Pits, Stomach, Subjects

Cannot Hannah Arendt's 'banality of evil' be subject to transposition: the evil of banality?

- Studs Terkel

source: Studs Terkel (1980). “American Dreams: Lost and Found”, p.21, The New Press

topic: Evil, Banality, Subjects

I have always attempted to create images that deliver the maximum amount of information about the subject.

- Chuck Close

topic: Information, Maximum, Subjects

Sex has become one of the most discussed subjects of modern times. The Victorians pretended it did not exist; the moderns pretend nothing else exists.

- Fulton J. Sheen

topic: Sex, Modern, Subjects

Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject itself, or know where to find it.

- Lyndon B. Johnson

topic: Two, Kind, Subjects

It is the subjective world that rules the objective. Change the subject, and the object is bound to change; purify youreslf, and the world is bound to be purified.

- Swami Vivekananda

source: Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Personality Development”, p.28, Advaita Ashrama

topic: Growth, World, Subjects

Do not teach too many subjects and what you teach, teach thoroughly.

- Alfred North Whitehead

topic: Teach, Subjects

Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.

- Gaston Bachelard

topic: Description, Subjects, Objects, Passivity

Whatever is subject to origination is all subject to cessation.

- Gautama Buddha

topic: Subjects, Real Buddhist

No nation keeps another in subjection without herself turning into a subject nation.

- Mahatma Gandhi

topic: Subjects, Nations, Subjection

The subject of a good tragedy must not be realistic.

- Pierre Corneille

source: "Héraclius". Play by Pierre Corneille, preface, 1646.

topic: Tragedy, Realistic, Subjects

The simplest subjects are the immortal ones.

- Pierre-Auguste Renoir

topic: Immortal, Simplest, Subjects

Subject is known by what she sees.

- Allen Ginsberg

source: Falco, Nick Cave, Allen Ginsberg (2002). “Viva la poesia”

topic: Vision, Awe, Subjects

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