Subject Quotes

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

Art is a subject that is inundated with opinions. In fact, that's all it is about is opinions.

To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.

Careers in virtually all academic disciplines are fostered by being a superstar who knows more about one subject than anyone else in the world.

People can get obsessed with romance, they can get obsessed with political paranoia, they can get obsessed with horror. It's isn't the fault of the subject matter that creates the obsession, I don't think.

Every year I teach dozens of students at the University of Birmingham. Most of the students on the gender and sexuality courses are women. I guess this is because the boys don't think that gender applies to them: that it's a subject for girls.

As a physicist, I can state that none of the 18 physicists who signed the Statement works in this field; nor to my knowledge has ever published a paper on this subject.

Sometimes you can tell a large story with a tiny subject.

This time, there have been a lot of interesting discussion about the subject matter and I've had a good time talking about it. And in some of the cases, I'm not just signing books; I'm showing slides and talking about the work.

And as long as you're subject to birth and death, you'll never attain enlightenment.

I know for me the subject of how to be in a relationship is precious and complicated and challenging.

Sex, a great and mysterious motive force in human life, has indisputably been a subject of absorbing interest to mankind through the ages.

My career at Warner Brothers consisted of one musical short subject. I was running around in a bear skin. Very chic.

The subject of criminal rehabilitation was debated recently in City Hall. It's an appropriate place for this kind of discussion because the city has always employed so many ex-cons and future cons.

The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the Government of Reasons; to place our Subject in a Right Light, and excite our Hearers to a due consideration of it.

I think Bob Costas is terrific. He's so knowledgeable. He can talk about any subject, not just sports.

The rule which should guide us in such cases is simple and obvious enough: that the aggregate testimony of our neighbours is subject to the same conditions as the testimony of any one of them.

I have been frequently accused of deliberately twisting subject matter to my point of view. Above all, I know that life for a photographer cannot be a matter of indifference. Opinion often consists of a kind of criticism. But criticism can come out of love.

I talk as I sketch, too, in order to keep their minds off what I'm doing so I'll get the most natural expression I can from them. Also, the talking helps to size up the subject's personality, so I can figure out better how to portray him.

I am still against any kind of censorship. It's a subject in my life that has been very important.

Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.

The purely agitational attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject.

I write songs about real things... The subject dictates the mood and it goes from there, really.

I am aware that a philosopher's ideas are not subject to the judgment of ordinary persons, because it is his endeavour to seek the truth in all things, to the extent permitted to human reason by God.

For if God is a title of the highest power, He must be incorruptible, perfect, incapable of suffering, and subject to no other being; therefore they are not gods whom necessity compels to obey the one greatest God.

I think of painting without subject matter as music without words.

In a world that is constantly changing, there is no one subject or set of subjects that will serve you for the foreseeable future, let alone for the rest of your life. The most important skill to acquire now is learning how to learn.

I - and there are hundreds of thousands of Irishmen who felt on this subject as I do - have always liked my Celtic countrymen and disliked the English nation; it is a national trait of character, and I cannot help it.

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

The more important the subject and the closer it cuts to the bone of our hopes and needs, the more we are likely to err in establishing a framework for analysis.