I'm lucky that my real-life Mom has both a great sense of humor about herself and an amazing ability to slip into complete denial if the subject matter gets a little too close to home.
It was my interest in happiness that led me to the subject of habits, and of course, the study of habits is really the study of happiness. Habits are the invisible architecture of everyday life, and a significant element of happiness.
Art and money are closely related. Try sitting down with a group of artists and ask them what's on their mind. Very quickly the topic shifts to money. And it can be very hard to get them off that subject.
The films I grew up loving, and the art that I love, is not generally the kind of postmodern ironic winking stuff. What lasts is the stuff in which the artists are totally in league with the subject.
In LA I was watching At the Movies with Ebert and Roper, it was, nice to see them differentiate between the subject matter and the art form of making the film, and they both gave it thumbs up, and I was kind of pleased at their honesty as far as revi...
I was an awful critic. I operated on the assumption that there was an absolute scale of values against which art could be measured. I didn't trust my own subjective responses.
To: Anna Oliphant From: Étienne St. Clair Subject: So . . . Does that mean I can call you now?
Divination is turning out to be much more trouble than I could have foreseen, never having studied the subject myself.
The mystery of desire was way beyond the conceptual abilities of Jules Jacobson. It was like ... robotics. Just another subject that she couldn’t understand at all.
We fundamentalists are a pack of mood-loving showoffs. I'm sure the Minor Prophets would have found subject for correction.
Having not said anything the first time, it was somehow even more difficult to broach the subject the second time around.
He was like a man thinking on an abstract subject all the time.
Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn't ask ourselves what it says but what it means...
the general or prevailing opinion in any subject is rarely or never the whole truth; it is only by the collision of adverse opinions that the remainder of the truth has any chance of being supplied
Never subject to the rules, believing that the correct judgement and healthy nature keep her in the honesty she lived in.
Suddenly, she employed those very English weapons: devious good manners and a rapid change of subject.
…as though, capable themselves of suffering, they granted no reality to the suffering of others. ‘The subject exhibited a pain response.’ But not, under any circumstances, .
It’s degrading being routinely subjected to a battery of medical tests to ensure I continue to deserve a place in this new world.
Just because you spent 4 years studying a subject doesn't mean you have to spend the rest 40 years suffering it.
Can I be blunt on this subject? If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.
The subjects of every state ought to contribute towards the support of the government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to their respective abilities.
