Subject Quotes

I love to compare different time frames. Poetry can evoke the time of the subject. By a very careful choice of words you can evoke an era, completely throw the poem into a different time scale.

Death seems to provide the minds of the Anglo-Saxon race with a greater fund of amusement than any other single subject.

I got quite bored, serving in the bar. Since I was there, the customers wouldn't talk about women, and with half their subject matter denied them, it was: horses, silence; horses, silence.

I noticed that almost everyone I went to college with has worked at something other than the subject they majored in. I guess that' s one of the reasons for campus unrest.

The subject matter is so much more important than the photographer.

I don't have a problem with my body. I don't diet, and I'm not hiding anything. I'm not going to be the subject of a movie of the week 10 years from now.

Subject the material world to the higher ends by understanding it in all its relations to daily life and action.

For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.

I'm not sure whay I've been drawn to this subject, except that murder is a subject that has always drawn people for as long as people have been telling stories.

On the subject of emigration, it is not my intention to dwell at any length.

Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.

My own interest developed because I thought it was a fascinating subject and something I wanted to pursue.

Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.

After Mary Queen of Scots, I turned to the farthest subject possible: Cromwell.

The challenge is to manage the Web in an open way-not too much bureaucracy, not subject to political or commercial pressures. The U.S. should demonstrate that it is prepared to share control with the world.

I never let my subject get in the way of what I want to talk about.

Worthy or not, my life is my subject, and my subject is my life.

And at that point, I think my experience in covering the subject helped me. I think editors felt comfortable with the idea of me telling this story because I had demonstrated that I know this business pretty well.

One needs to know what the hierarchy of values are from which one takes inspiration, and in a democratic society this is the subject of continuous democratic debate.

When I was a child I asked my mother what homosexuality was about and she said - and this was 100 years ago in Germany and she was very open-minded - 'It's like hair color. It's nothing. Some people are blond and some people have dark hair. It's not a subject.' This was a very healthy attitude.

I don't think the subject of a documentary film should be producers on it.

A decision by the Supreme Court to subject Guantanamo to judicial review would eliminate these advantages.

To my mind, there is a solution which has to do with democracy, because democratic governments are subject to the will of the people. So, if the people will it, you can actually create international institutions through the democratic states.

Every artist undresses his subject, whether human or still life. It is his business to find essences in surfaces, and what more attractive and challenging surface than the skin around a soul?

You keep on balancing and balancing and balancing until the picture wins, because then the subject's turned into the picture.

I don't know what has happened to movies, but lately every movie is at least 20 minutes too long. It used to be that if you were three hours long it was because it was epic - a movie about Gandhi; something with very important subject matters.

Of mediumship there are many grades, one of the simplest forms being the capacity to receive an impression or automatic writing, under peaceful conditions, in an ordinary state; but the whole subject is too large to be treated here.

The artist himself is actually the subject in everything after, say, 1900. Eventually, art becomes so removed from the community that you have to know about the artist before you can even look at the painting, because there is a conceptual idea going on.

That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject.

A painting is finished when the subject comes back, when what has caused the painting to be made comes back as an object.