#subject

By virtue of some of the ways the game is played, in terms of message discipline, in terms of access for reporters, and especially in the way that sources and subjects, especially famous subjects, treat the media, almost by default there's more news that's falling into books. ↗

— Ron Suskind

#almost #books #default #discipline #especially

Well, I get my subject on Wednesday night; I think it out carefully on Thursday, and make my rough sketch; on Friday morning I begin, and stick to it all day, with my nose well down on the block. ↗

— John Tenniel

#begin #block #carefully #day #down

But primitive man had enemies real as well as imaginary, and they were not subject to priestly sorceries. ↗

— Paul Harris

#imaginary #man #priestly #primitive #real

If the world were good for nothing else, it is a fine subject for speculation. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#fine #good #nothing #speculation #subject

The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man only. ↗

— Thomas Hobbes

#creature #living #living creature #man #only

What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter - a soothing, calming influence on the mind, rather like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue. ↗

— Henri Matisse

#art #balance #calming #depressing #devoid

Mental violence is as bad as physical violence. You don't see that very often in movies, so it was a good subject to tackle. ↗

— Chazz Palminteri

#good #mental #movies #often #physical

People can get obsessed with romance, they can get obsessed with political paranoia, they can get obsessed with horror. It's isn't the fault of the subject matter that creates the obsession, I don't think. ↗

— Adam Arkin

#fault #get #horror #i #matter

You must forget all your theories, all your ideas before the subject. What part of these is really your own will be expressed in your expression of the emotion awakened in you by the subject. ↗

— Henri Matisse

#art-theory #creativity #design #emotion #matisse

It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it. ↗

— Aung San Suu Kyi

#fear #losing #power #power corrupts #scourge