Quotes About Subject

The generating of any image is a process in egoless participatory response to some apparent "subject" or "subject-context". The image is not to replicate or "objectify" the apparent "subject" by means of the response. The image is the response itself—ecstatic, beyond and prior to "point of view", "object", separateness, duality, reflection, and likeness.

The relationship of the toastmaster to speaker should be the same as that of the fan to the fan dancer. It should call attention to the subject without making any particular effort to cover it.

The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to permit the conquered Eastern peoples to have arms. History teaches that all conquerors who have allowed their subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by doing so.

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

I'm a passionate individual, and sometimes when I have strong feelings about a subject, I feel the need to express myself.

You can only have one aim per debate.

To violate the law is the same crime in the emperor as in the subject.

Slightly surreal, so private, so obscure That critics classify his work as 'pure' Because, in digging through the endless chatter They can't discern what is the subject matter...

If someone smells a flower and says he does not understand, the reply to him is: there is nothing to understand, it is only a scent. If he persists, saying: that I know, but what does it all mean? Then one has either to change the subject, or make it more abstruse by saying that the scent is the shape which the universal joy takes in the flower.

Sex is not a subject in my photographs, or would only be if it had to do with romance, sometimes vulnerability. The photographs are quite clearly about happiness, or search for happiness.

Every book is vulnerable, and every book is nerve-wracking, but I've never been both so excited and terrified to have a book coming into the world. It's an expressly loaded subject, one on which you can't win.

Too many people think that economics is this subject that should wait until the university level. But it can't wait that long.

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.

I really love history. When I was a little kid in Brazil, it was my favorite subject in school. I always did really well in it.

We knew that bringing a level of entertainment value to the subject of history was the key to our success.

The precariatised mind is one without anchors, flitting from subject to subject, in the extreme suffering from attention deficit disorder. But it is also nomadic in its dealings with other people.

For a photographer, sharks are a stirring subject, possessing a perfect blend of grace and power. They have been sculpted by evolution and are ideally suited for whichever ecosystem they inhabit, from coral reefs to the open ocean.

When women do take on traditionally male subjects, certain male colleagues can seem affronted that a woman has dared to trespass on their subject. I could given you dozens of examples, but here's one: Max Hastings's review in the 'Sunday Times' in 2009 of Miranda Carter's book 'The Three Emperors'.

It was only after I had finished writing the first part that the whole story revealed itself to me in its tragic character and in the march of its events as unavoidable and sufficiently ample in its outline to give free play to my creative instinct and to the dramatic possibilities of the subject

Yossarian decided to change the subject. Now you're changing the subject. he pointed out diplomatically. I'll bet I can name two things to be miserable about for every one you can name to be thankful for.

Haven't you got anything humorous that stays away from waters and valleys and God? I'd like to keep away from the subject of religion altogether if we can." The chaplain was apologetic. I'm sorry, sir, but just about all the prayers I know are rather somber in tone and make at least some passing reference to God.

Be still, be quiet, I am in control, you must obey me, you are subject to my command, you cannot intrude where you do not belong."   It

Be still, be quiet, I am in control, you must obey me, you are subject to my command, you cannot intrude where you do not belong.

Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are a subject to a good many different ailments, but I have never heard of one who has suffered from insomnia.