Top Subject Quotes
What's an expert? I read somewhere, that the more a man knows, the more he knows, he doesn't know. So I suppose one definition of an expert would be someone who doesn't admit out loud that he knows enough about a subject to know he doesn't really know how much.
Malcolm Forbes
When the subject is strong, simplicity is the only way to treat it.
Jacob Lawrence
All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.
Friedrich Nietzsche
A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Less than fifteen per cent of the people do any original thinking on any subject. The greatest torture in the world for most people is to think.
Luther Burbank
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William Hazlitt 
David Crystal 
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Arnold Newman 
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C. S. Lewis 
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Sometimes it's difficult directing yourself on film because you can't quite separate yourself from the subject.
Stanley Tucci 
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If the world were good for nothing else, it is a fine subject for speculation.
William Hazlitt
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In every work of art the subject is primordial, whether the artist knows it or not. The measure of the formal qualities is only a sign of the measure of the artist's obsession with his subject; the form is always in proportion to the obsession.
Alberto Giacometti
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Generally what I produce is new. Of course, they are often variations on the same subject.
Sergio Aragones
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A teacher enlarges people in all sorts of ways besides just his subject matter.
Wallace Stegner
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Wait for those unguarded moments. Relax the mood and, like the child dropping off to sleep, the subject often reveals his truest self.
Barbara Walters
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Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.
C. S. Lewis
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Pick up a rifle and you change instantly from a subject to a citizen.
Jeff Cooper
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I do care about style. I do care, but I only care about style that serves the subject.
Richard Attenborough
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