Subjects – Quotes

Not only did she

Not only did she [Marilyn Monroe] master her own image, create it and ultimately control it, she was the subject of many of the great masters of photography of the 20th century. Gail Levin

For a border state, I would argue that Texas is less lunatic on the subject of immigration issues than other places around it, like Arizona. They’re much more comfortable with their long-term identity as a place with a very large Hispanic population. Gail Collins

Whenever you bring up

Whenever you bring up women’s internal workings, guys want to change the subject. Unless, of course, they’re trying to change the laws. Gail Collins

Not much is done

Not much is done to promote non-cricket sports in India. There is a lot of talk about how sports needs to reach the grassroots and how it should be introduced as a subject in school, but nothing has been done to that effect. Gagan Narang

Films, fiction, can encompass

Films, fiction, can encompass a whole global vision on a particular subject with any story, whatever it is. You can play the story in whatever country with whatever language in whatever style you want to tell the story in. Gael Garcia Bernal

i discovered that my

i discovered that my obsession for having each thing in the right place, each subject at the right time, each word in the right style, was not the well-deserved reward of an ordered mind, but just the opposite: a complete system of pretense invented by me to hide the disorder of my nature. Gabriel Garcia … Read more

This splendid subject [mathematics],

This splendid subject [mathematics], queen of all exact sciences, and the ideal and norm of all careful thinking. G. Stanley Hall

The fact is there

The fact is there are few more popular subjects than mathematics. Most people have some appreciation of mathematics, just as most people can enjoy a pleasant tune. G. H. Hardy

I count Maxwell and

I count Maxwell and Einstein, Eddington and Dirac, among real mathematicians. The great modern achievements of applied mathematics have been in relativity and quantum mechanics, and these subjects are at present at any rate, almost as useless as the theory of numbers. G. H. Hardy

… Philosophy proper is

… Philosophy proper is a subject, on the one hand so hopelessly obscure, on the other so astonishingly elementary, that there knowledge hardly counts. G. H. Hardy