#subjects

People love pretty much the same things best. A writer looking for subjects inquires not after what he loves best, but after what he alone loves at all. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#alone #best #looking #love #loves

You talked about national identity cards and the terrorism bill. We have made a government that has grown used to viewing us as subjects, has grown used to seeing its role as commanding us. ↗

— Malcolm Wallop

#bill #cards #commanding #government #grown

The Methodists love your big sinners, as proper subjects to work upon. ↗

— Horace Walpole

#love #proper #sinners #subjects #upon

The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#difference #fuzzy #merely #other #reasoning

Books on horse racing subjects have never done well, and I am told that publishers had come to think of them as the literary version of box office poison. ↗

— Laura Hillenbrand

#books #box #box office #come #done

While it's really hard to do, at the same time, I'm escaping my body, which I really want to do. I'm living someone else's life. I get very intensely into the story, into the interviews and the research. I'm experiencing things along with my subjects. I have a freedom I don't have in my physical life. ↗

— Laura Hillenbrand

#body #else #escaping #experiencing #freedom

Art and religion first; then philosophy; lastly science. That is the order of the great subjects of life, that's their order of importance. ↗

— Muriel Spark

#first #great #importance #lastly #life

The national will is the supreme law of the Republic, and on all subjects within the limits of his constitutional powers should be faithfully obeyed by the public servant. ↗

— Martin Van Buren

#faithfully #his #law #limits #national

We need to be around our families not because we have so many shared experiences to talk about, but instead because they know precisely which subjects to avoid. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#around #avoid #because #experiences #families

It's very eclectic, the way one chooses subjects in the movie business, especially in the commercial movie business. You need to develop material yourself or material is presented to you as an assignment to direct. ↗

— John Frankenheimer

#business #chooses #commercial #develop #direct