In my teenage years I was put off the idea of a career in flying, because I'd convinced myself that you had to be a boffin with degrees in maths and physics, which were my weakest subjects.
It is disgusting to note the increase in the quantity of coffee used by my subjects and the amount of money that goes out of the country in consequence. Everybody is using coffee. If possible, this must be prevented. My people must drink beer.
There's nothing anyone can do except change the subject.
The proper Science and Subject for Man's Contemplation is Man himself. [Fr. , La vraie science et le vrai etude de l'homme c'est l'homme. ]
Ultimately the product that any writer has to sell is not the subject being written about, but who he or she is.
Often we don't notice the stringent rules to which our culture subjects us.
The one thing that I do is take really complicated systems and subjects and make them accessible to regular people.
At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight.
Intellectuals have opinions on subjects they just heard about five minutes ago.
When shucked and released from its edges, the windowless subject stands alone as its own thing.
Clam chowder is one of those subjects, like politics or religion, that can never be discussed lightly. Bring it up even incidentally, and all the innumerable factions of the clam bake regions raise their heads and begin to yammer.
An aphorism is a single sentence that totally exhausts its subject.
Love or not, I wouldn't subject a wife to the road. It's punishment.