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Writers do not choose their subjects; their subjects choose them. By Erica Jong Subjects Writers Choose

No subject is terrible if the story is true, if the prose is clean and honest, and if it affirms courage and grace under pressure. By Ernest Hemingway, True Honest Pressure Subject Terrible

Speaking to the subject is the most overrated thing in journalism, By David Remnick Speaking Journalism Subject Overrated Thing

It's important to let your subjects be themselves. By Herb Ritts Important Subjects

Sir, you have but two topics, yourself and me. I am sick of both. By Samuel Johnson Sir Topics Sick

Nothing that surrounds us is object, all is subject. By Andre Breton Object Subject Surrounds

The subject is said to have the property of making dull men eloquent. By Ralph Waldo Emerson Eloquent Subject Property Making Dull

I never let my subject get in the way of what I want to talk about. By Mark Victor Hansen Subject Talk

Your subject should always answer the question "What is the problem to be solved?" or "What is the job to be done?" A By Brian Tracy Question Solved Subject Answer Problem

[T]he object of any subject is nothing else than the subject's own nature taken objectively. By Ludwig Feuerbach Objectively Subject Object Nature

Subjectivity ceases to exist only when the mutation-like leap is made from subjectivity to objectivity, from individual existence to universal existence. By Piet Mondrian Subjectivity Existence Objectivity Ceases Exist

Study cannot happen until we are subject to the subject. By Richard J. Foster Study Subject Happen

As far as I'm concerned, there is no subject that's off the table. By Garry Trudeau Concerned Table Subject

Certain characteristics of the subject are clear. To begin with, we do not in this subject deal with particular things or particular properties: we deal formally with what can be said about any thing or any property. We are prepared to say that one and one are two, but not that Socrates and Plato are two. By Bertrand Russell Clear Subject Characteristics Deal Socrates

People wonder why you choose certain subjects to write about. The truth is: you don't really. They choose you By Sebastian Faulks People Subjects Write Choose Truth

One always starts work with the subject, no matter how tenuous it is, and one constructs an artificial structure by which one can trap the reality of the subject-matter that one has started from. By Francis Bacon Subject Starts Work Matter Tenuous

The commonest, dullest, most threadbare topic might be rendered interesting by the skill of the speaker. By Jane Austen Dullest Commonest Speaker Threadbare Topic

In a play, certainly, the subject is of more importance than in any other work of art. Infelicity, triviality, vagueness of subject, may be outweighed in a poem, a novel, or a picture, by charm of manner, by ingenuity of execution; but in a drama the subject is of the essence of the work-it is the work. If it is feeble, the work can have no force; if it is shapeless, the work must be amorphous. By Henry James Subject Work Play Art Importance

For people who live in the imagination, there is no lack of subjects. To seek for the exact moment at which inspiration comes is false. Imagination floods us with suggestions all the time, from all directions. By Federico Fellini Subjects People Live Lack Imagination

All subjects do not reside in neat little compartments, but are continuous and inseparable from the one big subject we have been put on Earth to study, which is life itself. By Kurt Vonnegut Earth Compartments Study Reside Neat

We ask the poet: 'What subject have you chosen?' instead of: 'What subject has chosen you? By Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach Poet Subject Chosen

The subject was as easy to spot as a kangaroo in a dinner jacket By Raymond Chandler Jacket Subject Easy Spot Kangaroo

The chief vestige of subjectivity is the fallacy that everybody else also cares about the same things as the observer, and/or lives in his/her exact same state of mind By Stephan Attia Observer Mind Chief Vestige Subjectivity

Subjectivity is objective. By Woody Allen Subjectivity Objective

I have never made it a consideration whether the subject was popular or unpopular, but whether it was right or wrong; for that which is right will become popular, and that which is wrong, though by mistake it may obtain the cry or fashion of the day, will soon lose the power of delusion, and sink into disesteem. By Thomas Paine Wrong Popular Unpopular Day Delusion

As for the subject matter in my painting ... it is very often an incidental thing in the background, elusive and unclear, that really stirred me. By William Baziotes Painting Subject Matter Background Elusive

After all, everyone's favorite subject is themselves. By Neil Strauss Favorite Subject

Every proposition, true or false - so the present theory contends - ascribes a predicate to a subject, and - what is a corollary from the above - there is only one subject. The consequences of this doctrine are so strange, that I cannot believe they have been realized by those who maintain it. The theory is in fact self-contradictory. By Bertrand Russell Subject Proposition True False Contends

A woman confronting men is a proper subject, it is inexhaustible. By Claude Chabrol Subject Inexhaustible Woman Confronting Men

Discourse, the sweeter banquet of the mind. By Homer Discourse Mind Sweeter Banquet

Philosophy. - Nil. By Arthur Conan Doyle Philosophy Nil

When I first started to take photographs in Czechoslovakia, I met this old gentleman, this old photographer, who told me a few practical things. One of the things he said was, "Josef, a photographer works on the subject, but the subject works on the photographer." By Josef Koudelka Czechoslovakia Photographer Gentleman Josef Things

The academic bias against subjectivity not only forces our students to write poorly ("It is believed ... ," instead of, "I believe ... "), it deforms their thinking about themselves and their world. In a single stroke, we delude our students into believing that bad prose turns opinions into facts and we alienate them from their own inner lives. By Parker J. Palmer Poorly Believed Academic Bias Subjectivity

I am my own muse, the subject I know best. By Frida Kahlo Muse Subject

Objects are inorganic and biological values; subjects are social and intellectual values. By Robert M. Pirsig Objects Subjects Inorganic Biological Social

I crossed my arms, stilled by a revelation that had been mounting in me ever since our arrival in this bower of poured concrete: that as the "subject," I was both the center of attention and completely extraneous. The feeling brought with it an eerie, stultifying familiarity; I was still the model, after all. I was modeling my life. By Jennifer Egan Subject Arms Stilled Concrete Extraneous

Many photographers feel their client is the subject. My client is a woman in Kansas who reads Vogue. I'm trying to intrigue, stimulate, feed her. My responsibility is to the reader. The severe portrait that is not the greatest joy in the world to the subject may be enormously interesting to the reader. By Irving Penn Client Photographers Feel Reader Vogue

The starting point is a question. By Alberto Manguel Question Starting Point

The only subject I know anything about is myself and I don't know that too clearly. By William Shatner Subject

When you fight among subjects you are a figure, a form, an idea. By Mark Lawrence Figure Form Idea Fight Subjects

The world is inseparable from the subject, but from a subject which is nothing but a project of the world, and the subject is inseparable from the world, but from a world which the subject itself projects. By Maurice Merleau Ponty World Subject Inseparable Project Projects

Where no interest is takes in science, literature and liberal pursuits, mere facts and insignificant criticisms necessarily become the themes of discourse; and minds, strangers alike to activity and meditation, become so limited as to render all intercourse with them at once tasteless and oppressive. By Madame De Stael Science Literature Pursuits Mere Discourse

The purpose of subject matter is to veil technique. The great artist uses the cloak of resemblance to hide the means. By John French Sloan Technique Purpose Subject Matter Veil

The simplest subjects are the immortal ones. By Pierre-Auguste Renoir Simplest Subjects Immortal

The world does not consist of subjects and objects, the "subject" and the "object" are metaphysical abstractions of the single and indivisible Wholeness. Man's finite knowledge separates the Whole into parts and studies fragmentarily the beings. The Wholeness is manifested in multiple forms and each form encapsulates the Wholeness By Alexis Karpouzos Wholeness Objects Object Subjects Subject

A sentence has a subject and a verb and expresses a complete thought. However, By Ann Longknife Thought Sentence Subject Verb Expresses

The best subjects are always people, who never fail to amaze me by their unpredictability. By Ronnie James Dio People Unpredictability Subjects Fail Amaze

The task of education is not to teach subjects: it is to teach students. By Ken Robinson Teach Subjects Students Task Education

Bound to seek recognition of its own existence in categories, terms, and names that are not of its own making, the subject seeks the sign of its own existence outside itself, in a discourse that is at once dominant and indifferent. Social categories signify subordination and existence at once. In other words, within subjection the price of existence is subordination. By Judith Butler Terms Existence Bound Making Indifferent

The pains and pleasures of the body, howsoever important to ourselves, are an indelicate subject of conversation By Edward Gibbon Body Howsoever Conversation Pains Pleasures

As a writer reading, I came to realize the obvious: the subject of the dream is the dreamer. By Toni Morrison Reading Obvious Dreamer Writer Realize

The subject, the thing itself, is the genesis of all types of photography. By Bill Jay Subject Photography Thing Genesis Types

Conversation is not a search after knowledge, but an endeavor at effect. By John Keats Conversation Knowledge Effect Search Endeavor

Every decent director has only one subject, and finally only makes the same film over and over again. My subject is the exploitability of feelings, whoever might be the one exploiting them. It never ends. It's a permanent theme. Whether the state exploits patriotism, or whether in a couple relationship, one partner destroys the other. By Rainer Werner Fassbinder Subject Decent Director Finally Makes

The subject of an outsider who becomes obsessed. By Wes Anderson Obsessed Subject Outsider

To me Art's subject is the human clay, / And landscape but a background to a torso; / All Cezanne's apples I would give away / For one small Goya or a Daumier. By W. H. Auden Daumier Art Cezanne Goya Clay

We know that man has the faculty of becoming completely absorbed in a subject however trivial it may be, and that there is no subject so trivial that it will not grow to infinite proportions if one's entire attention is devoted to it. By Leo Tolstoy Subject Trivial Man Faculty Completely

Everything turns on grasping and expressing the True, not only as Substance, but equally as Subject. By Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel True Substance Subject Turns Grasping

An object of art creates a public capable of finding pleasure in its beauty. Production, therefore, not only produces an object for the subject, but also a subject for the object. By Karl Marx Object Beauty Art Creates Public

I am my own muse. I am the subject I know best. The subject I want to better. By Frida Kahlo Muse Subject

In my view, no subject is ever finished. No concept is sealed off from other concepts. Knowledge is continuous; ideas flow. By Salman Khan View Finished Subject Knowledge Continuous

Death is not my best subject. By Judd Nelson Death Subject

Philosophy, art, and science are not the mental objects of an objectified brain but the three aspects under which the brain becomes subject. By Gilles Deleuze Philosophy Art Brain Subject Science

My interests were aroused, and my faith in the cliches of the subject destroyed, as so often with other subjects, by the discussions with my friend, Aaron Director. By George Stigler Aaron Director Aroused Destroyed Friend

They say that that's a difficult task, that nothing's amusing that isn't spiteful," he began with a smile. "But I'll try. Get me a subject. It all lies in the subject. If a subject's given me, it's easy to spin something round it. I often think that the celebrated talkers of the last century would have found it difficult to talk cleverly now. Everything clever is so stale ... By Leo Tolstoy Task Spiteful Smile Subject Amusing

My subject matter was a genuine sort of experience that came out of my life, particularly the American world in which I was privileged to be ... I would really think of the bakery counters, of the way the counter was lit, where the pies were placed, but I wanted just a piece of the experience. From when I worked in restaurants ... [it was] always poetic to me. By Wayne Thiebaud American Life Experience Subject Matter

He was my teacher, and he had wrapped himself, his elaborate historical self, into this package, and stood in front of the high windows, to teach me my little lesson, which turned out to be not about Poland or fascism or war, borderlines or passion or loyalty, but just about the sentence: the importance of, the sweetness of. And I did long for it, to say one true sentence of my own, to leap into the subject, that sturdy vessel traveling upstream through the axonal predicate possibility; into what little we know of the future, of eternity. By Rebecca Lee Poland Teacher Package Windows Lesson

I could not write about a subject sacred to me because I would be too flippant. Fortunately, there are no subjects sacred to me. By Joseph Heller Sacred Flippant Fortunately Write Subject

subject would largely have to have been a retraction. Because all the while, I was looking for lies to expose. No bit of information existed merely as a fact but as a clue to a deep underlying truth that would reveal a massive cover-up by both East and West. By Mary Mycio Subject Retraction Largely West East

The subjectivist in morals, when his moral feelings are at war with the facts about him, is always free to seek harmony by toningdown the sensitiveness of the feelings. By William James Feelings Subjectivist War Facts Free

Don't 'discover' a subject of any kind. By Richard Diebenkorn Discover Kind Subject

What I am really writing about, what I have always written about, is the idea of human freedom, human community, the real world which makes both possible, and the new technocratic industrial state which threatens the existence of all three. Life and death, that's my subject, and always has been - if the reader will look beyond the assumptions of lazy critics and actually read what I have written. Which also means, quite often, reading between the lines: I am a comic writer and the generation of laughter is my aim. By Edward Abbey Human Written Freedom Community Writing

Art,' she said.'My second favorite subject.'She gave him a shrewd look. 'You wish for me to ask you what your favorite is.''Am I so obvious?''You are only obvious when you wish to be.''And alas, it still doesn't work. You have not asked me what my favorite subject is.''Because,' she returned, sitting down, 'I am quite certain the answer will contain something highly inappropriate.'He placed one hand on his chest, the dramatic gesture somehow restoring his equilibrium. It was easier to play the jester. No one expected as much from fools. 'I am wounded,' he proclaimed. 'I promise you, I was not going to say that my favorite subject was seduction, or the art of a kiss, or the proper way to remove a lady's glove, or for that matter the proper way to remove - ''Stop! By Julia Quinn Favorite Said Subject Gave Shrewd

Words and sentences are subjects of revision; paragraphs and whole compositions are subjects of prevision. By Barrett Wendell Subjects Words Revision Paragraphs Prevision

The choice of a topic which will bear analysis and support enthusiasm, is essential to the enjoyment of conversation. By Agnes Repplier Enthusiasm Conversation Choice Topic Bear

They all know the truth, that there are only three subjects worth talking about. At least here in these parts," he says, "The weather, which, as they're farmers, affects everything else. Dying and birthing, of both people and animals. And what we eat - this last item comprising what we ate the day before and what we're planning to eat tomorrow. And all three of these major subjects encompass, in one way or another, philosophy, psychology, sociology, anthropology, the physical sciences, history, art, literature, and religion. We get around to sparring about all that counts in life but we usually do it while we're talking about food, it being a subject inseparable from every other subject. It's the table and the bed that count in life. And everything else we do, we do so we can get back to the table, back to the bed. By Marlena De Blasi Truth Worth Talking Subjects Subject

True reflection presents me to myself not as idle and inaccessible subjectivity, but as identical with my presence in the world and to others, as I am now realizing it: I am all that I see, I am an intersubjective field, not despite my body and historical situation, but, on the contrary, by being this body and this situation, and though them, all the rest. By Maurice Merleau Ponty Situation Body True Subjectivity Field

What concerns me alone I only think, what concerns my friends I tell them, what can be of interest to only a limited public I write, and what the world ought to know is printed ... By Georg C. Lichtenberg Concerns Write Printed Friends Interest

At bottom there is but one subject of study: the forms and metamorphoses of mind. All other subjects may be reduced to that; all other studies bring us back to this study. By Henri Frederic Amiel Study Mind Bottom Forms Metamorphoses

The subject matter ... is not that collection of solid, static objects extended in space but the life that is lived in the scene that it composes; and so reality is not that external scene but the life that is lived in it. Reality is things as they are. By Wallace Stevens Life Lived Scene Reality Matter

What are you reading?" Polonius asked."Words, words, words," said Hamlet."And what's the subject?""Lesser than the king, but still not nothing."It took Polonius a moment to realize he had answered another meaning of 'subject.' "I mean what do you read about?""All in a line, back and forth." said Hamlet. "I go from left to right with my mind full, and then must drop it there and head back empty-headed to the left side again, and take up another load to carry forward. It's a most tedious job, and when I'm done, there are all the letters where I found them, unchanged despite my having carried them all into my head. By Orson Scott Card Words Polonius Reading Subject Hamlet

I am sticking as closely to my subject as I can; for my subject is precisely this, that it is the masses, the majority By Henrik Ibsen Subject Masses Majority Sticking Closely

The complaint, therefore, that all topicks are preoccupied, is nothing more than the murmur of ignorance or idleness, by which some discourage others, and some themselves; the mutability of mankind will always furnish writers with new images, and the luxuriance of fancy may always embellish them with new decorations. By Samuel Johnson Complaint Preoccupied Idleness Images Decorations

Conversation is the legs on which thought walks; and writing, the wings by which it flies. By Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington Conversation Walks Writing Flies Legs

The talk was supposed to be about gender and sexuality in music videos. Those who know how I usually flow were tripping at the title [Alicia vs. India], but I had to remind them that had I called the talk "Gender and Sexuality in Music Videos," wouldn't nobody be up in the room. By Mark Anthony Neal Videos Sexuality Music Gender Talk

What do I want to express? The subject means little. The arrangement, the design, colour, shape, depth, light, space, mood, movement, balance, not one or all of these fills the bill. There is something additional, a breath that draws your breath into its breathing, a heartbeat that pounds on yours, a recognition of the oneness of all things. By Emily Carr Express Breath Colour Shape Depth

I only have one subject. The question I am obsessed with is: How do children survive? By Maurice Sendak Subject Survive Question Obsessed Children

A spectre is haunting Western academia ( ... ), the spectre of the Cartesian subject. By Slavoj Zizek Western Cartesian Academia Subject Spectre

Grasp the subject; the words will follow. By Cato The Elder Grasp Subject Follow Words

Until they give me opportunity to write about matters that are not-me, the world must go on uninstructed and unreformed, and I can only do my best with the one small subject upon which I am allowed to discourse. By Helen Keller Notme Unreformed Discourse Give Opportunity

Conversation is the laboratory and workshop of the student. By Ralph Waldo Emerson Conversation Student Laboratory Workshop

The fact that Iam writing to youin Englishalready falsifies what Iwanted to tell you.My subject:how to explain to you that Idon't belong to Englishthough I belong nowhere else By Gustavo Perez Firmat Belong Iam Englishalready Iwanted Ido

It just makes me wonder what subject you blame for talking to me every night.'I'm still settling on an answer for that one. Probably Chemistry.Jesus Christ. I can't believe I just wrote that. By Megan Mccafferty Night Makes Subject Blame Talking

A great man will find a great subject, or which is the same thing, make any subject great. By Ralph Waldo Emerson Great Thing Make Subject Man

I have an object, a task, let me say the word, a passion. The profession of writing is a violent and almost indestructible one. By George Sand Object Task Word Passion Profession

My work never directly addresses the literal subject matter of the photograph, but attempts to ask questions about vision itself. By Uta Barth Photograph Work Directly Addresses Literal

The essayist is a self-liberated man, sustained by the childish belief that everything he thinks about, everything that happens to him, is of general interest. By E.b. White Man Sustained Interest Essayist Selfliberated

The subjectivization of the universal in art brings the universal downward on one hand, while on the other it helps raise the individual toward the universal. By Piet Mondrian Universal Hand Subjectivization Art Brings

Your subjects have had a history - try to reveal it in your picture. By Howard Pyle History Picture Subjects Reveal

I enter into discussion and argument with great freedom and ease, inasmuch as opinion finds me in a bad soil to penetrate and take deep root in. No propositions astonish me, no belief offends me, whatever contrast it offers to my own. There is no fancy so frivolous and so extravagant that it does not seem to me quite suitable to the production of the human mind. By Michel De Montaigne Ease Enter Discussion Argument Great