Subjects Quotes
I only write about stuff I know. I don't have a lot of experience with boys and stuff so I write a lot of songs about interesting and strange subjects that people wouldn't write songs about.
In my teenage years I was put off the idea of a career in flying, because I'd convinced myself that you had to be a boffin with degrees in maths and physics, which were my weakest subjects.
When we force a boy to be a mediocrity in a dozen subjects we destroy his standards, perhaps for life.
I have the vagary of taking a lively interest in mathematical subjects only where I may anticipate ingenious association of ideas and results recommending themselves by elegance or generality.
I feel like it's my responsibility to honestly cover a lot of subjects in part because I have two little girls and I really want them when they grow up to have a voice.
I punched to line. "Yes? What?" "Norville. It's Cormac. If you don't change the subject right now, I'm going to have to go over there and have a word with you.
All things, in all their aspects, consist exclusively of 'souls', that is, of various kinds of subjects, or units of experiencing, with their qualifications, relations, and groupings, or communities.
I have ideas of subjects and atmospheres that I love. I either want to go in a tougher, stronger direction or do the opposite: simple ballads.
Mental violence is as bad as physical violence. You don't see that very often in movies, so it was a good subject to tackle.
I want to draw subjects that seem very boring and everyday... Stuff that would be normal except for one thing. Or two things. Or stuff that's undeniably weird.
I can't think of a subject that is taboo for me, unless it's one I simply don't know anything about.
Every writer has certain subjects that they write about again and again, and . . . most people's books are just variations on certain themes.
I'm not afraid of writing about sensitive subjects, but I want to be careful how I do so and I know not all readers will think I have been, of course.
Any good biography has to got to lead you to the work. Many biographers have started out in love with their subjects and ended up hating them.
I tend to think of fiction as being mainly about characters and human beings and inner experience, whereas essays can be much more expository and didactic and more about subjects or ideas.
There are certain subjects which seem to me can be taught very effectively online, although they aren't.
I was a freelance journalist, and it was a struggle because I had to pitch all the time, research, and stay on top of subjects.
I feel that history is in many ways the most important of all subjects because it is about everything and because it's about who we are and how we came to be the way we are.
Human paleontology shares a peculiar trait with such disparate subjects as theology and extraterrestrial biology: it contains more practitioners than objects for study.
I started writing nonfiction because nonfiction is well-suited to subjects that, if you wrote them as fiction, people would say, "I don't believe this. This is a little outlandish".
We need to be around our families not because we have so many shared experiences to talk about, but instead because they know precisely which subjects to avoid.
In general, I'm careful when I'm dealing with subjects of deep cultural importance and write with abandon when I'm dealing with issues of personal dysfunction.
My work is never intellectual. I never make a negative unless emotionally moved by my subject.
It's difficult to beat making your living thinking and writing about subjects that matter to you.
The more we know, the more pain we have. But because we are human beings, this must be. Otherwise we become objects rather than subjects.
In school math and science were my favorite subjects, but I probably in my true self I'm more of a people person. At the same time, I don't think that's how I recharge.
Necessity is an evil; but there is no necessity for continuing to live subject to necessity.
Once they were librarians, but that is a subject they will only discuss if heavily intoxicated.
My responsibility as a photographer, to my subjects, is to know what's going to happen with my images.
I didn't know how to grab your best material and put it together into a comedy set. I would just choose subjects and do it onstage. That's what I learned. I didn't know how to put a set together.
There are two sorts of constancy in love one arises from continually discovering in the loved person new subjects for love, the other arises from our making a merit of being constant.
Pantagruel was telling me that he believed the queen had given the symbolic word used among her subjects to denote sovereign good cheer, when she said to her tabachins, A panacea.
Occupy yourself with what's in your life now. Address those situations and subjects as fully as possible with your best efforts. That is what produces happiness and clarity and knowledge and power.
Movies dealing with social subjects in France become very paternalist. They want to teach lessons. They don't show poorness like a normal situation.
Most subjects at universities are taught for no other purpose than that they may be re-taught when the students become teachers.
Edgar was named as one of the players involved, but he was in my room, discussing religious subjects with me.
The patterns became even more vivid at Cardinal Hayes High School. That's when I began failing subjects and running away from home for days at a time.
Opinions: men's thoughts about great subjects. Taste: their thoughts about small ones: dress, behavior, amusements, ornaments.
We owe to our Mother-Country the Duty of Subjects but will not pay her the Submission of Slaves.
"Statesman" presumes I'm out there giving opinions all the time about things, and no, I'm not interested in opining on a lot of subjects.
Speak seldom, but to important subjects, except such as particularly relate to your constituents, and, in the former case, make yourself perfectly master of the subject.
