Subject Quotes

This synchronous action then will be the Subject, which is the representative harmony.
Robert Delaunay

Action, Harmony

Films, fiction, can encompass a whole global vision on a particular subject with any story, whatever it is. You can play the story in whatever country with whatever language in whatever style you want to tell the story in.
Gael Garcia Bernal

Country, Play, Tell

I search for the realness, the real feeling of a subject, all the texture around it... I always want to see the third dimension of something... I want to come alive with the object.
Andrew Wyeth

Feeling, Real, Around

Don't have a favorite subject, I think I want to carry on doing this because I really enjoy it.
Rupert Grint

Enjoy, Favorite, Carry

Careers in virtually all academic disciplines are fostered by being a superstar who knows more about one subject than anyone else in the world.
Philip Zimbardo

Else, Anyone, Knows

I believe that historians and analysts of historical events need the authority of facts supplied by living witnesses to the events, which they make their subject.
Ibrahim Babangida

Living, Facts, Authority

I think authors can get into trouble viewing the subject matter as their turf.
Laura Hillenbrand

Matter, Trouble, Authors

Honestly, I expected to get a cold reception because of my subject matter. But when editors took a look at the story I had to tell, and saw that this was not a parochial story at all, they really warmed to it.
Laura Hillenbrand

Tell, Matter, Story

And at that point, I think my experience in covering the subject helped me. I think editors felt comfortable with the idea of me telling this story because I had demonstrated that I know this business pretty well.
Laura Hillenbrand

Business, Experience, Pretty

What they were giving me seemed incredibly real to me, so I'd react to it in a very real way. That was frightening for me, especially because of the subject.
Mariel Hemingway

Real, Giving, React

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 Nimoy

Else, Start, Curious

This time, there have been a lot of interesting discussion about the subject matter and I've had a good time talking about it. And in some of the cases, I'm not just signing books; I'm showing slides and talking about the work.
Leonard Nimoy

Work, Time, Good

That's the most difficult issue for me... to find a subject that holds my interest long enough that I'm prepared to go to work and spend the time and energy to shoot the subject.
Leonard Nimoy

Work, Time, Long

For me it's all about personal vision; is there something about a subject that uniquely speaks to me.
Leonard Nimoy

Personal, Vision, Speaks

Several people, not just reviewers, took me to task for writing about what they called the working classes - something I've been doing for 40 years. I thought that was contemptible - what do they want to do, ghettoize the working class as a subject? Can you only write about your own class? I've written about royalty, am I not allowed to do that?
Martin Amis

Writing, Thought, Working

The paintings that really excite me have an erotic element or side to them irrespective of subject matter.
Lucian Freud

Matter, Side, Paintings

No relief was forthcoming from my then-Catholic faith, which said the practice of homosexuality was a 'mortal sin' subject to damnation.
James McGreevey

Faith, Said, Practice

If there be any plausible reason for supposing that we have the right to legislate on the slave interests of the District, you cannot put down the investigation of the subject out of doors, by refusing to receive petitions.
Caleb Cushing

Down, Cannot, Put

To the extent that I come from a deeply religious tradition and have been contending with those beginnings all of my life - that constitutes the subject of much of my early fiction.
Chaim Potok

Life, Religious, Early

Any idealism is a proper subject for art.
Lafcadio Hearn

Art, Proper, Idealism

Like any other composer of opera, I choose a subject not for polemical reasons, but because it contains vivid characters in highly charged dramatic situations.
Carlisle Floyd

Choose, Characters, Reasons

I think the best teachers had a real interest in the subject they were teaching and a love for children.
Beverly Cleary

Love, Best, Children

There is nothing far-fetched about disappointment as a subject for comedy. It's something we are all too familiar with.
Martin Freeman

Nothing, Comedy, Familiar

I'd love to meet Flannery O'Connor. I think I'd be content to hear her speak on any subject. What forces shaped her. What nebula of books and stories were whirling together inside her at the time of her death.
Karen Russell

Love, Time, Death

As somebody who's been writing about this subject for getting on twenty years now, it's astonishing how the climate has changed in the last five years.
Anthony Holden

Writing, Last, Getting

Charles was very intent to use his years as Prince of Wales to make his mark while he still had freedom of maneuver that he wouldn't have as King. The first subject he really went for was architecture. It made an impact.
Anthony Holden

Freedom, Made, While

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.
Clifford Geertz

Great, Real, Matter

This is part of the complexity of grief: A piece of you recognizes it is an extreme state, an altered state, yet a large part of you is entirely subject to its demands.
Meghan O'Rourke

State, Grief, Large

I know a little more about Kinsey than I know about sex because that is his subject not mine.
Bill Condon

Sex, Mine, Kinsey

I tend to arrive in the rehearsal process with very strongly developed ideas about what I want to do. But I don't like those ideas to be things that are not subject to change, or subject to development, or subject to challenge.
Trevor Nunn

Change, Challenge, Ideas

Share with your Friends

Everyone likes a good quote - don't forget to share.

Related Definition

Subject Definition

J. R. R. Tolkien

Popular Topics

Friendship Quotes

Motivational Quotes

Inspirational Quotes

Get Social with BrainyQuote

BrainyQuote Desktop

BrainyQuote Mobile

Site

Quote of the Day

Social

BQ on Pinterest

Syndication

Funny Quote Feed

Love Quote Feed

Nature Quote Feed

About Us