Subjects Quotes - Page 4

• I've tried to make a book that's accessible to the ordinary, intelligent reader. Very often books that cover this kind of subject are written by academics, for academics. But I am not an academic.

  Brian Crozier

  Book, Intelligent, Ordinary

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• Society is the offspring of leisure; and to acquire this forms the only rational motive for accumulating wealth, notwithstanding the cant that prevails on the subject of labor.

  Henry Theodore Tuckerman

  Society, Leisure, Wealth

  Henry Theodore Tuckerman (1850). “The optimist”, p.115

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• I do think we know that a teacher who knows what he or she is doing, knows their subject matter, and knows how to impart knowledge to kids is a critical piece of closing the achievement gap.

  Margaret Spellings

  Teacher, Kids, Thinking

  "The Education Week Interview: Margaret Spellings". Interview with Lynn Olson and Erik W. Robelen, www.edweek.org. February 9, 2005.

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• Annoyance arises from the feared implication that we are copyists in subject or treatment, or both, whereas the common qualities that establish the relationship result merely from a similarity of method.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Quality, Copying, Common

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• Any subject is suitable provided it is of sufficient interest, but the design must be very carefully considered, and plenty of time and thought given to its construction.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Design, Construction, Given

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• A people who`s primary aims are driving, shopping, and television are subject to terrorism at any time.

  Steven Dietz

  Shopping, People, Television

  Steven Dietz, Eric Peltoniemi (1987). “Ten November”

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• To decide to reach for this blue and not that one, to switch styles or subject matter, to move, in the middle of a sentence, in one direction or another, to commit to this book when that one is also calling, are the sorts of choices that artists must make if they are to function.

  Eric Maisel

  Moving, Book, Artist

  Eric Maisel (2013). “Making Your Creative Mark: Nine Keys to Achieving Your Artistic Goals”, p.200, New World Library

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• When you write something new about science, other scientists may not like it but they pay attention because it is subject to proof. When you write something new about art, it is subject only to the reader's discomfort, and will probably be rejected.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Art, Writing, Attention

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• One wants to see the artifice of the thing as well as the subject.

  Richard Diebenkorn

  Want, Wells, Artifice

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• The area between the nose and the chin, the subject of kissing and the vehicle for speech, is perhaps even more known and set upon than the eyes. The mouth is also riddled with a complex interweaving of folds, curves, flats and lost-and-found edges. These nuances are needed by a perceptive person who might try to understand human nature.

  Robert Genn

  Eye, Kissing, Curves

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• I simply like the monumentality of the subjects - the opportunity for metaphor and the varied light that comes with high altitudes.

  Robert Genn

  Opportunity, Light, Metaphor

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• An abstract title suggests another value to the subject, perhaps an artistic quality that sets the viewers' sensitivities into action.

  Robert Genn

  Quality, Titles, Action

  Robert Genn (1996). “The Painter's Keys: A Seminar with Robert Genn”, p.144, Studio Beckett Publications

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• When shucked and released from its edges, the windowless subject stands alone as its own thing.

  Robert Genn

  Stand Alone, Edges

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• Every man holds his property subject to the general right of the community to regulate its use to whatever degree the public welfare may require it.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Men, Land, Community

  Speech, Osawatomie, Kan., 31 Aug. 1910

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• She who has intentionally destroyed [the fetus] is subject to the penalty corresponding to a homicide. For us, there is no scrutinizing between the formed and unformed [fetus]; here truly justice is made not only for the unborn but also with reference to the person who is attentive only to himself/herself since so many women generally die for this very reason.

  Saint Basil

  Justice, Abortion, Fetus

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• It was love that motivated His self-emptying, that led Him to become a little lower than angels, to be subject to parents, to bow His head beneath the Baptist's hands, to endure the weakness of the flesh, and to submit to death even upon the cross

  Bernard of Clairvaux

  Angel, Self, Hands

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• [Among the books he chooses, a statesman] ought to read interesting books on history and government, and books of science and philosophy; and really good books on these subjects are as enthralling as any fiction ever written in prose or verse.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Philosophy, Book, Science

  Theodore Roosevelt (2013). “Bully!”, p.257, Simon and Schuster

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• I have taken special interest in these accounts [of UFOs].. I think there may be substance to some of these reports... I think we owe it to the people to establish credibility regarding UFOs and to produce the greatest possible enlightenment on this subject.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Taken, Thinking, People

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• In the firm belief that the American public deserves a better explanation than that thus far given by the Air Force, I strongly recommend that there be a committee investigation of the UFO phenomena. I think we owe it to the people to establish credibility regarding UFOs, and to produce the greatest possible enlightenment of the subject.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Thinking, Air, People

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• There was never in my mind a desire to give in on the subject of freeing the political prisoners.

  Robert Bourassa

  Giving, Political, Mind

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• There are fashions in reading, even in thinking. You don't have to follow them unless you want to. On the other hand, watch out. Don't stick too closely to your favorite subject. That would keep you from adventuring into other fields. It's silly to build a wall around your interests.

  Walt Disney

  Fashion, Wall, Reading

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• The Government which attacks its own innocent subjects has no claim to be called a civilised government. Bear in mind, such a government does not survive long. I declare that the blows struck at me will be the last nails in the coffin of the British rule in India.

  Lala Lajpat Rai

  Blow, British Rule In India, Government

  "Under the Shadow of Gallows". Book by Gulab Singh, p. 40, 1963.

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• Steep yourself in your subject, work like hell, and love, honor and obey your hunches.

  Leo Burnett

  Honor, And Love, Hell

  Leo Burnett (1961). “Communications of an Advertising Man: Selections from the Speeches, Articles, Memoranda, and Miscellaneous Writings of Leo Burnett”

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• People who ponder too much about the subject of enlightenment don't progress very fast. It is interesting to know it's there, but you can't know what it's like until you get there.

  Frederick Lenz

  People, Interesting, Progress

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• In reasoning upon moral subjects, we have great occasion for candor, in order to compare circumstances, and weigh arguments with impartiality.

  Nathanael Emmons

  Order, Moral, Argument

  Nathanael Emmons (1842). “The Works of Nathanael Emmons, D.D.: With a Memoir of His Life [written by Himself]”, p.496

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