Subject Quotes

Bores can be divided into two classes; those who have their own particular subject, and those who do not need a subject.

This is one of man’s oldest riddles. How can the independence of human volition be harmonized with the fact that we are integral parts of a universe which is subject to the rigid order of nature’s laws?

All we can know is our own subjective version of reality. That’s the way we go through our lives. Everybody.

People love pretty much the same things best. A writer looking for subjects inquires not after what he loves best, but after what he alone loves at all.

Do not talk a little on many subjects, but much on a few.

When you write a song like ‘Forrest Gump,’ the subject can’t be androgynous. It requires an unnecessary amount of effort.

I wanted to catch the problem of consumption, waste, poor people eating what we throw away, which is a big subject. But I didn’t want to become a sociologue, an ethnographe, a serious thinker. I thought I should be free, even in a documentary which has a very serious subject.

My favourite subject at school was avoiding unnecessary work.

Love, our subject: we’ve trained it like ivy to our walls.

The evidence for evolution pours in, not only from geology, paleontology, biogeography, and anatomy, but of course from molecular biology and every other branch of the life sciences.