#subject

I think the worst and most insidious procrastination for me is research. I will be looking for some bit of fact or figure to include in the novel, and before I know, I've wasted an entire morning delving into that subject matter without a word written. ↗

— James Rollins

#bit #delving #entire #fact #figure

Subjective artists are one-eyed, but objective artists are blind. ↗

— Georges Rouault

#blind #objective #one-eyed #subjective

Within speech, words are subject to a kind of relation that is independent of the first and based on their linkage: these are syntagmatic relations, of which I have spoken. ↗

— Ferdinand de Saussure

#first #i #independent #kind #relation

A subject which at first glance seems quite removed from the undeclared concern of the book can encapsulate that concern. ↗

— W. G. Sebald

#concern #encapsulate #first #glance #quite

I think I take what you might call a B-movie story, deal with B-movie subjects, and I treat it as if it's an A-movie in terms of my approach, my crew, my actors, my ethics and so on. I guess that's my trademark or one of them, anyway! ↗

— M. Night Shyamalan

#approach #b-movie #call #crew #deal

A general presumption that Icings will govern well, is not a sufficient security to the People... those who subjected themselves to the will of a man were governed by a beast. ↗

— Algernon Sidney

#general #govern #governed #man #people

When you get into statistical analysis, you don't really expect to achieve fame. Or to become an Internet meme. Or be parodied by 'The Onion' - or be the subject of a cartoon in 'The New Yorker.' I guess I'm kind of an outlier there. ↗

— Nate Silver

#analysis #become #cartoon #expect #fame

I just was not going to subject my record to the bleak prospects of a primary election. ↗

— Arlen Specter

#election #going #i #just #primary

All persons harboring or secreting the conspirators or aiding their concealment or escape, will be treated as accomplices in the murder of the President and shall be subject to trial before a military commission, and the punishment of death. ↗

— Edwin M. Stanton

#before #commission #concealment #conspirators #death

That's my ambition: that you look at the pictures and realize what complex, fascinating, interesting people every single one of my subjects is. ↗

— Jock Sturges

#complex #every #fascinating #interesting #interesting people