Like any other composer of opera, I choose a subject not for polemical reasons, but because it contains vivid characters in highly charged dramatic situations.
I never really excelled in any particular subject, but I was just alright at all of them. I never really knew what I wanted to do until I discovered drama.
I think that people's sexual preferences are a legitimate subject for humour, dirty humour if at all possible.
There is a strange idea abroad that in every subject the ancient book should be read only by the professionals, and the amateur should content himself with modern books.
Choose a subject equal to your abilities; think carefully what your shoulders may refuse, and what they are capable of bearing.
I try to take normal things - whether it's a serious subject or something as obscure as a piece of toast - and put a very weird twist on them.
I don't think I'd ever start making a film until I had both the intimacy with the subject and the distance to make it live in a certain way.
Composers in the old days used to keep strictly to the base of the theme, as their real subject. Beethoven varies the melody, harmony and rhythms so beautifully.
What makes a classic is difficult to define. It's entirely subjective, of course. And the term is employed far too promiscuously.
Indeed it is very hard, when we have let the King's subjects have so much of our lands for so little value.
Math is my favorite subject. It's the universal language. I like the fact that wherever you go in the whole world, two plus two will still be four.
I want the subject to be in control. Because they will give me something I couldn't possibly know about them.
Although there exist many thousand subjects for elegant conversation, there are persons who cannot meet a cripple without talking about feet.
Objectivity is the subject subjugating the object. That is how you assert yourself. You make yourself the active voice and the object is the passive no-voice.
Well, many of us believe that excessive media concentration is a subject that ought to be addressed, and it is, of course, the intention of the majority party not to allow that to be discussed.
Our film industry as well as the audiences are now open to unconventional pairings and subjects, which has aided my journey greatly.
All nuclear material in weapons programmes must be subject one day to binding international verification.
The most frightening interview I've ever done was with Dr. Lonnie Thompson of The Ohio State University on the subject of global warming.
We need to keep on praying, keep on believing, keep on enduring and keep on trusting God. With God, all things are subject to change
Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.
Wait for those unguarded moments. Relax the mood and, like the child dropping off to sleep, the subject often reveals his truest self.
