(425 quotes found)
“There are three things to aim at in public speaking: first, to get into your subject, then to get your subject into yourself, and lastly, to get your subject into the heart of your audience”
Alexander Gregg
“I never had to choose a subject - my subject rather chose me.”
Ernest Hemingway
“Bores can be divided into two classes; those who have their own particular subject, and those who do not need a subject.”
A. A. Milne
“A teacher enlarges people in all sorts of ways besides just his subject matter.”
Wallace Stegner
“An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in his subject, and how to avoid them”
Werner Karl Heisenberg
“I have written on all sorts of subjects . . . yet I have no enemies; except indeed all the Whigs, all the Tories, and all the Christians.”
David Hume
“The theoretical broadening which comes from having many humanities subjects on the campus is offset by the general dopiness of the people who study these things...”
Richard Feynman
“Bob Dole revealed he is one of the test subjects for Viagra. He said on Larry King, 'I wish I had bought stock in it.' Only a Republican would think the best part of Viagra is the fact that you could make money off of it.”
Jay Leno
“Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.”
Will Durant
“Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.”
Will Smith