“One can do such lovely things with so little. Subjects that are too beautiful end by appearing theatrical.” LittlesEndsBeautifulCan DoSubjectsLovelyTheatricalAppearingLovely Things Author:Camille Pissarro
“Debate doesn’t really change things. It gets you bogged in deeper. If you can address or reopen the subject with something new, something from a different angle, then there is some hope. ... People are suddenly gazing at something else and pausing for a moment. And for the duration of that gaze and pause, they are like reflectors of the totality of their own knowledge and/or ignorance. That’s something poetry can do for you, it can entrance you for a moment above the pool of your own consciousness and your own possibilities.” PeopleIfsDifferentMomentsCan DoConsciousnessSubjectsPossibilityIgnoranceDeeperDebateAddressesSomething NewPoolPausesAngleEntrancesTotalityDurationGazingDifferent AnglesPausing Author:Seamus Heaney
“In the eighty or ninety years I have given to this subject, trying to trace out the meanderings of their twisty little minds, the only thing that I have learned for certain about women is that when a gal is gonna, she's gonna. All a man can do is cooperate with the inevitable.” MenTryingYearsMindLittlesCertainGivenWomenCan DoSubjectsInevitableI Have LearnedNinetyEightyGalsLittle Minds Author:Robert A. Heinlein
“There's nothing anyone can do except change the subject.” WarCan DoHistorySubjectsCivil WarAmerican Civil War Author:Philibert Orry
“Time was when medicine could do very little for critically ill or dying patients. Now it can do too much. Where to draw the line is the subject of a broad, heated debate throughout the country, a debate that becomes louder with each new medical miracle or impossible case.” LittlesCountryCareCan DoLinesCasesToo MuchImpossibleSubjectsDyingDrawsMiracleMedicinePatientIllIllnessMedicalDebateHealth CareBroads Author:Lisa Belkin
“I admire photographers who can take much more ordinarily subject matter and make it transcend that ordinariness, so that it becomes something else fresh and new. It opens this doorway. I really admire people who can do that with photography.” PeopleMatterCan DoSubjectsPhotographyPhotographerAdmireSubject MatterDoorwaysOrdinariness Author:Andy Summers
“Hence it is a mistake to think, that the supreme or legislative power of any common-wealth, can do what it will, and dispose of the estates of the subject arbitrarily, or take any part of them at pleasure.” ThinkingCan DoWealthPleasureCommonMistakeSubjectsSupremeEstates Book:Two treatises of government Source: Two treatises of government
“I think some people see those three numbers 9/ 11 and they walk away. That might be changing now. People are more willing to step into an artistic exploration of that subject. All you can do is let it go” PeopleThinkingMightThreeCan DoWalksNumbersStepsSubjectsWillingArtisticExplorationLet It Go Author:Andre Dubus
“The situation that women were in, at the time, was something that Dumas doesn't really go into, but it's a great subject to look at. It's a great genre because you can do a lot. Sometimes in thrillers, you can really explore things, and it's the same in this genre.” LooksSometimesCan DoSituationSubjectsGenreThrillers Author:Adrian Hodges