Subjects Quotes

Any idealism is a proper subject for art.

The supreme rulers are hardly known by their subjects. The lesser are loved and praised. The even lesser are feared. The least are despised.

The best of all rulers is but a shadowy presence to his subjects.

School gives you the freedom to explore different philosophies, religions, aspects of yourself, and subjects.

The biographer who writes the life of his subjects self-concept passes through a fade into the inner house of life.

[Europe has] this tradition of self revelation in popular music. We have it here - it's called Country Western Music... I think that's where the deeper and more complex subjects are treated.

I don't Tweet a lot because I've Tweeted things that I thought were really innocuous about subjects that are inflammatory, and the response is so insane sometimes from people.

Harvard has something that manages, I think, to provide a lot of options for students, but still fairly prescriptive about the kinds of subjects that the courses ought to cover.

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.

I had a general outline of subjects. The way I start my days is my husband brings me a thermos of coffee up to the bedroom.

It would look like a notebook with dividers, and there'd be different subjects and things [preschoolers] could do, so that they could feel like they were going to school also.

Nonfiction gives you subjects. Writing fiction I can have more fun, but I have to invent my subject.

I subject my sentences and the words to a kind of Grand Inquisition.

John Kerry knows more about more subjects than an awful lot of people. But I think it's a very hard job [Secretary of State].

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

Real power does not consist in the ability to inflict capital punishment upon the subjects, but in the will and the ability to protect the subjects against the world.

The unparalleled extravagance of English rule has demented the rajas and the maharajas who, unmindful of consequences, ape it and grind their subjects to dust.

We live in a world where people are really hungry for information, and they're not hungry for information on subjects that they're not interested in.

I bless the gods for not letting my education in rhetoric, poetry, and other literary studies come easily to me, and thereby sparing me from an absorbing interest in these subjects.

All my shows are therapy, trying to navigate interesting subjects so I can work them out and to be honest and say some things are beyond the wit of this man.

In the midst of all this great variety of subjects, an individual cannot attain to perfection in each, because it is scarcely in his power to take in and comprehend the general theories of them.

Victorian literature was my subject at Harvard.

You may have noticed that the less I know about a subject the more confidence I have, and the more new light I throw on it.

Our office...subjects us to great burdens and labors, dangers and temptations, with little reward or gratitude from the world. But Christ himself will be our reward if we labor faithfully.

You seem to have quite a taste for discussing these horrible subjects," she said, rather scornfully; "you ought to have been a detective police officer.

Everyone asks me how I get my subjects to open up to me. There’s no formula to it. It’s just a matter of who you are and how you talk to people - of being yourself.

I always wanted to photograph the universal subjects.

Like other high subjects, the Law gives no ground to common sense.

The noble style immobilizes its subjects.

Futility has become a great subject, full of opportunities.

Intellectuals have opinions on subjects they just heard about five minutes ago.

Some subjects come up suddenly in our speech and cannot be silenced.

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

A lot of people are writing poems and don't realize it. They have this limited idea of how the poem should sound or what subjects it should address.

You know, when you engage so much with somebody it seems like the subjects never end. You can actually talk forever, and I felt like that with my wife. And at some point we shut up and got married.

Of all the subjects I have photographed, the most controversial and the one that has moved me the most has to be the prostitutes who are getting on in years. They are true survivors.

The final product becomes a passionate reflection of all that was revealed to me about my subjects during intense moments of personal clarity.

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

The judgment is an utensil proper for all subjects, and will have an oar in everything.

I've never had a plan. You look for different actors you want to work with or different subjects you want to explore, or sometimes it's just a momentary fancy.

A lot of networks don't want to touch controversial subjects, and especially stuff that deals with race and history.

The style depends on the subject.

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

What remarkable strength is shown by the person who can lay aside personal prejudices and work without friction with a group of individuals with whom he or she is not in accord on many subjects.

Science is not a subject you took in school. It's life. We are wrapped by it, in it, with it.

It's progress I think, that science has joined philosophy, metaphysics & religion as subjects drunk people argue about in bars.

Not everyone is going to like science as a subject.

I love film, and I think it's so important for kids to be educated about films and real life subjects that films cover.

Anybody who is not shocked by this subject has failed to understand it. [of quantum mechanics]

Even for an area I know well, I prepare a shooting list of subjects I need.