Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
There's not any subject the public doesn't know about me. I don't have secrets, and this is so liberating because this makes me free.
Dream Theater music, there's a lot of background and context to the songs, as far as the subject matter and the albums they come from.
Content arises out of certain considerations about form, material, context-and that when that subject matter is sufficiently far away.
Wait for those unguarded moments. Relax the mood and, like the child dropping off to sleep, the subject often reveals his truest self.
Conducting! A subject, truly, concerning which much might be written, yet scarcely anything of real importance is to be found in books.
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.
What's the subject of life - to get rich? All of those fellows out there getting rich could be dancing around the real subject of life.
Whenever you bring up women's internal workings, guys want to change the subject. Unless, of course, they're trying to change the laws.
The development of the meaning attaching to the personal self, the conscious being, is the subject matter of the history of psychology.
The figure is still the only thing I have faith in in terms of how much emotion it's charged with and how much subject matter is there.
When power is exercised exclusively at the centre, the result is rigidity of rules and alienation of the people subject to those rules.
To know ourselves, is agreed by all to be the most useful Learning; the first Lessons, therefore, given us ought to be on that Subject.
You know, a football coach is nothing more than a teacher. You teach them the same subject, and you have a group of new guys every year.
No relief was forthcoming from my then-Catholic faith, which said the practice of homosexuality was a 'mortal sin' subject to damnation.
Anybody with skin issues knows that that's a very sensitive subject, and that's why I've never shared that I have vitiligo because I do.
Anything that excites me for any reason, I will photograph; not searching for unusual subject matter, but making the commonplace unusual.
I know that I have the right freely to speak and publish my sentiments, subject only to the laws of the land for the abuse of that right.
Music has no subject beyond the combinations of notes we hear, for music speaks not only by means of sounds, it speaks nothing but sound.
The best way to tell people about climate change is through non-fiction. There's a vast literature of outstanding writing on the subject.
I think that if I would talk on a political subject, if I talk about it, it would divide the audience on that issue. That's not my issue.
The foundation of our democracy is the ability to have a debate about any subject. That is why I am so committed to defending free speech.
I don't mind a dirty girl. But what I find tragic is when we, as women, become not the subject of our own story but someone else's object.
The only knowledge which satisfies us is one which is subject to no external standards but springs from the inner life of the personality.
Sex, a great and mysterious motive force in human life, has indisputably been a subject of absorbing interest to mankind through the ages.
I've done Graham Norton's show three times now. He tackles taboos and subject matter that wouldn't make it past the censors in the States.
Trying to write books with a subject matter or in a genre or style you're not familiar with is the best way to find the Big Block looming.
Love is such a powerful subject matter because it comes in so many different shapes and sizes. It's about timing, fate, failure, redemption.
The very name of my subject, economics, suggests economizing or maximizing. But Political Economy has gone a long way beyond home economics.
Design and technology should be the subject where mathematical brainboxes and science whizzkids turn their bright ideas into useful products.
When you're shooting with long lenses, even if you're shooting a close-up, you feel the air, the distance between the camera and the subject.
Subject matter that is not bound to reality offers more opportunity to write a unique story and cinematically present it in very unique ways.
My own perception of Malcolm was one of something that bordered on fascination because I was looking at him and reacting to him as a subject.
It seems disingenuous to ask a writer why she, or he, is writing about a violent subject when the world and history are filled with violence.
Well, I think in my own work the subject matter usually deals with characters I know, aspects of myself, friends of mine - that sort of thing.
I have always respected the freedom of expression. But the dissemination of false information is lamentable and subject to criminal penalties.
Because I'm a walker, natural history is my subject; I've always been obsessed with landscape, and I have an elegiac tone in most of my books.
Careers in virtually all academic disciplines are fostered by being a superstar who knows more about one subject than anyone else in the world.
Most painting in the European tradition was painting the mask. Modern art rejected all that. Our subject matter was the person behind the mask.
No! on Human Rights and Freedom, on a subject that is as self-evident as that two and two make four, there is no need of any written authority.
Less than fifteen per cent of the people do any original thinking on any subject. The greatest torture in the world for most people is to think.
Economics is a strange science. Our subject deals with some of the most important as well as mundane issues that impinge on the human condition.
Whomever you're going to interview, you have to be interested in what it is you want to know from them. You have to be interested in the subject.
Anthropology never has had a distinct subject matter, and because it doesn't have a real method, there's a great deal of anxiety over what it is.
I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry, and of criminal inquiry too.
The thing I hate the most in any kind of writing is self-righteousness. Where you pretend you don't have the same kinds of flaws your subject has.
It's a nice feeling to go out in the world and look for excellence - the best in man. My subject is very valid. It's about people, and about life.
There's a lot of new subject matter to learn. You start slowly peeling the onion and start figuring out how the policy and the politics intersect.
Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.
The biggest killer to funny is hyper sensitivity to certain subject matter and Montreal is as guilty of that as L.A. or New York or San Francisco.
I'm not the authority on the subject. I'm a middle-aged white guy speaking about racism. I'm just finding it a really difficult subject to broach.