When the tongue or the pen is let loose in a frenzy of passion, it is the man, and not the subject, that becomes exhausted.
Last year I gave several lectures on "Intelligence and Musicality among Animals". . . Today I am going to speak to you about "Intelligence and Musicality among Critics". . . The subject is much the same, with some modifications, of course.
When I go to the cinema, I'm often frustrated because I can guess exactly what is going to happen about ten minutes into the screening. So, when I'm working on a subject, I'm always looking for the element of surprise.
A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience.
You are protected. But if you don't take risks, God will retreat and become only a subject of philosophical speculation.
Her Majesty is not a subject.
I glean a few times a week, and it's all about the subject line. I look for the lyrical, "Billowy Red Scarf Girl" or the funny, "Hipster Chick Who Passed Gas," the unintentionally funny, "Looking for the Hot Girl in Pink Dress," ones that immediately suggest images, "Furry Arms Under a Yellow Umbrella," or the plain odd, "Seeking Girl Who Bit Me Twice. . . " I don't think I've ever abandoned one. . . the images usually arrive fully formed in my head as soon as I read the message, and I decide whether to draw it or not.
'Ape House' is an ambitious novel in several ways, for which it is to be admired, and it is certainly an easy read, but because Gruen is not quite prepared for the philosophical implications of her subject, it is not as deeply involving emotionally or as interesting thematically as it could be.
Although I am very interested in the subject of human misjudgment - and lord knows I've created a good bit of it - I don't think I've created my full statistical share, and I think that one of the reasons was I tried to do something about this terrible ignorance I left the Harvard Law School with.
People say don't stare. Through the photos, not only do I stare, but I allow viewers to stare at the subject, to see things that they cannot see with a casual glance.
I was looking to do something non-fiction because I had done a strip, 'My Mom Was a Schizophrenic. ' I really enjoyed the process of doing that strip, despite its subject matter. To do it I'd had to do a lot of research and reading and I figured I'd like to do that again.
The painter's obsession with his subject is all that he needs to drive him to work.
I arrange my subject as I want it, then I go ahead and paint it, like a child.
Experience has shown that the more fascinating the subject, the less observant the photographer.
I wanted to keep the complexity of the female experience in the film as much as it is in the book, and the subject of not wanting a child is a very interesting subject, one that's not dealt with very much actually. However that complexity was not serving the story of what became the film [The Girl on the Train].
Belief in an external world independent of the perceiving subject is the basis of all natural science.
After I discovered my degree in photojournalism would only get me a job in a camera store, I taught myself lighting. I read tons of magazines and books and studied the photos trying to figure out how they were done. I bought some flash equipment and played around until I figured out how to make a subject look as I envisioned it should look.
After five years' work I allowed myself to speculate on the subject, and drew up some short notes; these I enlarged in 1844 into a sketch of the conclusions, which then seemed to me probable: from that period to the present day I have steadily pursued the same object. I hope that I may be excused for entering on these personal details, as I give them to show that I have not been hasty in coming to a decision.
Diplomacy is, perhaps, one element of the U. S. government that should not be subject to the demands of 'open government'; whenever it works, it is usually because it is done behind closed doors. But this may be increasingly hard to achieve in the age of Twittering bureaucrats.
I must react selectively, contrarily, arbitrarily, perversely, and always with intensity directly from the subject.