(425 quotes found)
“Most contemporary novelists, especially the American and the French, are too subjective, mesmerized by private demons; they're enraptured by their navels and confined by a view that ends with their own toes.”
Truman Capote
“My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.”
Wilfred Owen
“Knowledge is the only instrument of production that is not subject to diminishing returns”
John Maurice Clark
“I have been subject to politics as long as I've been alive, thirty-five years, starting with the New Deal, going into the Second World War, the Cold War, Korea, the whole thing. So, I've been affected by it and hence since I've made my art, my art must reflect my political experience.”
Carl Andre
“If I were to make public these tapes, containing blunt and candid remarks on many different subjects, the confidentiality of the office of the president would always be suspect.”
Richard M. Nixon
“Any subject can be made interesting, and therefore any subject can be made boring.”
Hilaire Belloc
“Everyone is a reactionary about subjects he understands.”
Robert Conquest
“The problem is one of opposition between subjective and objective points of view. There is a tendency to seek an objective account of everything before admitting its reality. But often what appears to a more subjective point of view cannot be accounted for in this way. So either the objective conception of the world is incomplete, or the subjective involves illusions that should be rejected.”
Thomas Nagel
“It's hard to be the first. It's almost as if I'm subject to a different level of inspection.”
Carol Moseley Braun
“I don't suppose there's any public figure that's ever been subject to any more violent personal attacks than I have.”
Bill Clinton
