There are so many different kinds of people in America, with so many different boiling points, that we don't know how to fight with each other. The set piece that shapes and contains quarrels in homogeneous countries does not exist here. The Frenchman is an expert on the precise gradations of espèce de and the Italian knows exactly when to introduce the subject of his other's grave, but no American can be sure how or when another will react, so we zap each other with friendliness to neutralize potentially dangerous situations.
The position of the hysterical subject is that he or she always guesses what is behind the curtain, that is why such a subject usually ends up [. . . ] giving up on love.
You're not going to get any true confessions out of me," she said. "I'm a Leo, and our thing is changing the subject.
For a border state, I would argue that Texas is less lunatic on the subject of immigration issues than other places around it, like Arizona. They're much more comfortable with their long-term identity as a place with a very large Hispanic population.
Content is more than 'subject matter. ' It is all the feelings and ideas you bring to your painting.
Mathematics is man's own handiwork, subject only to the limitations imposed by the laws of thought.
What all great teachers appear to have in common is love of their subject, an obvious satisfaction in rousing this love in their students, and an ability to convince them that what they are being taught is deadly serious
And the truth of the matter is that death is a mystery to me. I have no opinion on the subject.
The mastery of any subject requires that one identify himself with the particular state of consciousness appropriate to that subject.
I am trying to find out why a subject does look so marvelous, and trying to make that sensation manifest on a flat surface.
Kill me if you will, I am not afraid to die; and I have endured so much oppression that I am weary of life. But I am a strong man, and I could cast both of you down, if I would. If you have any legal process to serve, present it, for I am at all times subject to law and shall not offer resistance.
No subject is unsuitable for comedy.
Pytheos made a mistake by not observing that the arts are each composed of two things, the actual work and the theory of it. One of these, the doing of the work, is proper to men trained in the individual subject, while the other the theory is common to all scholars.
I think it was a subject matter that The Social Network didn't involve a lot of women. That's all I think it is.
Puerto Ricans are Americans. We've been American citizens since 1917. We fought the same battles, made the same sacrifices. We've lost our land in the same way that Native Americans lost their land, and we've been the subject of discrimination and racism in the same way that African Americans have. We've suffered the full spectrum of oppression, and yet we've been off the map 4,000 miles away so we haven't even been able to argue our case.
Anything I've not experienced I do not look to for a subject. I have to feel it.
In photography, you always have both the medium and the depicted subject at the same time.
No one is more triumphant than the man who chooses a worthy subject and masters all its facts.
I find myself a fascinating subject.
because if you can’t kill then you are always subject to those who can, and nothing and no one will ever save you.