Subject Quotes
At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight.
StendhalStendhal I was attracted to photography because it was technical, full of gadgets, and I was obsessed with science. But at some point around fifteen or sixteen,
Adam FussAdam Fuss Domestic happiness is the end of almost all our pursuits, and the common reward of all our pains. When men find themselves forever barred from this delightful fruition, they are lost to all industry, and grow careless of all their worldly affairs. Thus they become bad subjects, bad relations, bad friends, and bad men.
Henry FieldingHenry Fielding For me, if the writing and – by extension – the subject matter and the characters are all good, it doesn’t matter if it’s film or TV. Each medium has great things going for it.
Adam CroasdellAdam Croasdell What I’m exploring right now is the subject of my own mortality, It’s an area that I’m curious about, and I’m researching it to see if there’s a photographic essay in it for me. If images don’t start to come, I’ll go to something else.
Leonard NimoyLeonard Nimoy Most of my subject matter was all kind of, like, party stuff, jewelry and cars. It was really just, you know, shallow.
Gucci ManeGucci Mane The things that I have said when I was young and curious about whatever the subject matter was, I respect those – those are growing pains.
NasNas Yes great people are always subject to persecution and always getting into straits.
Friedrich SchillerFriedrich Schiller Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.
Thomas MannThomas Mann I tend to follow a scattershot approach to reading a lot of very diverse subjects interest me, and I’m quite happy to read stuff on any of them.
Vikram SethVikram Seth No one wants to see or read about a dull subject. I don’t consider myself a dull subject.
Jayne MansfieldJayne Mansfield Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.
Joseph AddisonJoseph Addison There is no debate here, just scientists and non-scientists. And since the subject is science, the non-scientists don’t get a vote.
Bill MaherBill Maher Which sometimes forecloses their unique modernism and experience of modernization in favor of a mythic past or an artificially constructed ideal national subject.
Adam MorrisAdam Morris The real subject of every painting is light.
Claude MonetClaude Monet The value and utility of any experiment are determined by the fitness of the material to the purpose for which it is used, and thus in the case before us it cannot be immaterial what plants are subjected to experiment and in what manner such experiment is conducted.
Gregor MendelGregor Mendel