#subject

With regard to my family as I said nothing upon the subject before I may tell you that I have six children living, 1 dead and before I have the pleasure of seeing you I expect another. ↗

— John Hawley

#before #children #dead #expect #family

Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#mastery #order #simplification #steps #subject

Economics is a subject that does not greatly respect one's wishes. ↗

— Nikita Khrushchev

#economics #greatly #respect #subject #wishes

I tell beginning readers to read a lot and write a lot. If you want to write a book, find a subject that's really worth the time and effort you'll put in. ↗

— Tracy Kidder

#book #effort #find #i #lot

Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many different ailments, but I have never heard of one who suffered from insomnia. ↗

— Joseph Wood Krutch

#ailments #cats #creatures #delicate #different

I like roles that are on the extreme ends of the spectrum, and there's special appeal in exploring these slightly forgotten plays that people might think of as subjects for academic term papers instead of live theater. ↗

— Geoffrey Rush

#appeal #ends #exploring #extreme #forgotten

I was 21 in 1968, so I'm as much a child of the '60s as is possible to be. In those years the subject of religion had really almost disappeared; the idea that religion was going to be a major force in the life of our societies, in the West anyway, would have seemed absurd in 1968. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#almost #anyway #child #disappeared #force

Those objecting to the concept of race argue that the taxonomic definitions are arbitrary and subjective. ↗

— J. Philippe Rushton

#argue #concept #race #subjective

The artist himself is actually the subject in everything after, say, 1900. Eventually, art becomes so removed from the community that you have to know about the artist before you can even look at the painting, because there is a conceptual idea going on. ↗

— Gus Van Sant

#actually #after #art #artist #because

That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject. ↗

— George Santayana

#brief #could #created #fear #first