#subject

I start with the subject matter I want to write about. Then I make a musical base for that and create an atmosphere with the music. Once I've done that, the lyrics come last. ↗

— Midge Ure

#atmosphere #base #come #create #done

In the case of an artistic practice that performs female narcissism..., the threat lies in its making superfluous the arbiters of artistic value. Already presuming her desirability, [she] obviates the modern critical system; loving herself, she needs no confirmation of her artistic 'value ↗

— Amelia Jones

#female-artist #female-narcissism #art

I only care for the subjective life; I am very German, you see: The woods interest me, and the world does not. ↗

— Ouida

#nature #subjectivity #life

From my subjective position, there was no honeymoon. ↗

— John Hickenlooper

#position #subjective

The value and utility of any experiment are determined by the fitness of the material to the purpose for which it is used, and thus in the case before us it cannot be immaterial what plants are subjected to experiment and in what manner such experiment is conducted. ↗

— Gregor Mendel

#before #cannot #case #conducted #determined

What is the natural reaction when told you have a hopeless mental illness? That diagnosis does you in; that, and the humiliation of being there. I mean, the indignity you're subjected to. My God. ↗

— Kate Millett

#being there #diagnosis #does #god #hopeless

We are women. We are a subject people who have inherited an alien culture. ↗

— Kate Millett

#culture #inherited #people #subject #who

My idea of an educated person is one who can converse on one subject for more than two minutes. ↗

— Robert Millikan

#educated #idea #minutes #more #person

I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#i #metaphysics #more #myself #other

I come from a political family. My father was a freedom fighter. He was a prominent leader of the locality and member of the Congress party. He spent 10 years in British prisons. In the evening, in our living room, the only subject we used to discuss was politics. So politics was not unfamiliar to me. ↗

— Pranab Mukherjee

#come #congress #discuss #evening #family