“The kind of stuff I usually read is a bit more on the literary side, like books that I think are influential in the sense that they're doing pulpy subject matter in a refined way. Like 'The Road' by Cormac McCarthy, I loved that book.” ThinkingWayKindBookMatterStuffBitsSidesSubjectsInfluentialSubject MatterRefined Author:Isaac Marion
“A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.” BelieveHandsMovingReligionPoliticsSidesAtheismSubjectsHistoricalAtheistAppearanceTyrannyDevotionTreatmentIllegalTyrantsRulersPiousUncommonAtheistic Author:Aristotle
“The solitary side of our nature demands leisure for reflection upon subjects on which the dash and whirl of daily business, so long as its clouds rise thick about us, forbid the intellect to fasten itself.” LongSidesSubjectsDemandReflectionCloudsIntellectLeisureThickSolitarySelf ReflectionDaily Business Book:Short Studies on Great Subjects Source: Short Studies on Great Subjects
“All of us need an identity which unites us with our neighbours, our countrymen, those people who are subject to the same rules and the same laws as us, those people with whom we might one day have to fight side by side to protect our inheritance, those people with whom we will suffer when attacked, those people whose destinies are in some way tied up with our own.” PeopleWayNeedsMightLawSufferingFightingSidesDestinySubjectsIdentityOne DayProtectTiedInheritanceNeighbourCountrymenTied Up Author:Roger Scruton
“I have argued with him on almost every subject in the world, and we have always been on opposite sides, without affectation or animosity... It is necessary to disagree with him as much as I do, in order to admire him as I do; and I am proud of him as a foe even more than as a friend.” WorldOrderSidesSubjectsProudArgumentOppositesAdmireDisagreeFoeAnimosityProud Of Him Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton
“(Politeness is) a tacit agreement that people's miserable defects, whether moral or intellectual, shall on either side be ignored and not be made the subject of reproach.” PeopleMadeSidesMoralSubjectsIntellectualMiserableAgreementIgnoredDefectsPolitenessReproachTacit Book:Counsels and Maxims: Top of Schopenhauer Source: Counsels and Maxims: Top of Schopenhauer
“When we would show any one that he is mistaken, our best course is to observe on what side he considers the subject,--for his view of if is generally right on this side,--and admit to him that he is right so far. He will be satisfied with this acknowledgment, that he was not wrong in his judgment, but only inadvertent in not looking at the whole case.” IfsWholeShowsCoursesSidesViewsCasesSubjectsJudgmentArgumentSatisfiedMistakenAcknowledgment Author:Blaise Pascal
“I like big escapist films. It's odd because the type of comedian I am and the things I do when I'm writing and directing myself usually deal with the darker side of the human psyche and excruciating social faux pas. I often deal in taboos and the subjects I do as a stand-up are quite challenging. But my film roles have been much more fun and escapist.” WritingHumansHas BeensBigsFilmFunSocialSidesChallengesDealsRolesSubjectsTypeComedianOddTabooHuman PsycheEscapistsFauxDarker SideFaux Pas Author:Ricky Gervais
“Our role as artist is more controversial now because there are those, claiming the absolute authority of religion, who detest much of our work as much as they detest most of our politics. Instead of rationally debating subjects like abortion or gay rights, they condemn as immoral those who favor choice and tolerance. They disown their own dark side and magnify everyone else's until, at the extreme, doctors are murdered in the name of protecting life. I wonder, who is this God they invoke, who is so petty and mean? Is God really against gun control and food stamps for poor children?” MeanChildrenArtistChoicesNamesSidesDarkPoorWonderRolesRightsSubjectsGayAuthorityGunDoctorsAbsolutesExtremesFavorsToleranceAbortionGun ControlStampsImmoralPettyControversialDark SideGay RightsInvokeDetestFood StampsPoor Children Author:Barbra Streisand
“The taboos that I have mentioned are extraordinarily harsh and numerous. They stand around nearly every subject that is genuinely important to man: they hedge in free opinion and experimentation on all sides. Consider, for example, the matter of religion. It is debated freely and furiously in almost every country in the world save the United States, but here the critic is silenced. The result is that all religions are equally safeguarded against criticism, and that all of them lose vitality. We protect the status quo, and so make steady war upon revision and improvement.” MenWorldImportantWarCountryMatterStatesSidesLosesUnitedResultsOpinionUnited StatesAtheismSubjectsExampleProtectCriticismCriticsPositive AtheismImprovementSteadyHarshStatus QuoVitalityTabooExperimentationRevisionFree Opinion Author:H. L. Mencken
“So many of the properties of matter, especially when in the gaseous form, can be deduced from the hypothesis that their minute parts are in rapid motion, the velocity increasing with the temperature, that the precise nature of this motion becomes a subject of rational curiosity. Daniel Bernoulli, Herapath, Joule, Kronig, Clausius, &c., have shewn that the relations between pressure, temperature and density in a perfect gas can be explained by supposing the particles move with uniform velocity in straight lines, striking against the sides of the containing vessel and thus producing pressure.” MatterMovingFormSidesLinesPerfectMinutesSubjectsRelationPressurePropertyCuriosityRationalGasUniformsPreciseHypothesisVesselRapidsParticlesTemperatureStraight LinesContainingVelocityDensitySupposingProperties Of Matter Author:James Clerk Maxwell
“I think an artist, in my definition of that word, would not be someone who takes sides with the emperor against his powerless subjects. That's different from prescribing a way in which a writer should write.” ThinkingWayShouldWritingDifferentArtistSidesSubjectsDefinitionsPowerlessEmperorPrescribing Author:Chinua Achebe
“They are, in a sense, two sides of the same coin: women are, on the one hand, subjects of an extremely real and abject (as Julia Kristeva put it) body and denigrated sexuality; on the other, the proliferation of images, and their digitalisation produces more and more abstract and air-brushed representations of impossible female bodies. Both indicate, certainly, a "lack of progress." But, one hopes, discussions and resistance are emerging in response.” TwoRealBodyHandsSidesProgressImpossibleAirSubjectsProduceFemaleResponseSexualityResistanceDiscussionAbstractRepresentationCoinsEmergingTwo SidesJuliaProliferationFemale Body Author:Laura Mulvey
“In attempting to explain F For Fake's state-side failure, it has occurred to me that perhaps the subject matter was at least partially to blame, and that this country is so blissfully enslaved by the notion of the special sanctity of the expert that an overtly anti-expert film was bound to go too much against the national grain.” CountryMatterStatesFilmSidesToo MuchSpecialSubjectsBlameNotionBoundsFakeExpertsGrainAttemptingSubject MatterSanctity Author:Orson Welles
“Change is always subjective. All through evolution you find that the conquest of nature comes by change in the subject. Apply this to religion and morality, and you will find that the conquest of evil comes by the change in the subjective alone. That is how the Advaitic system gets its whole force, on the subjective side of man.” MenWholeEvilForceSidesSubjectsEvolutionMoralityConquestSubjective Author:Swami Vivekananda
“Well, that's the great thing about indie film, in general. If it's not subject to the constraints of too much pressure from the studio or marketing, and all of that, you get to actually present fuller characters and you get to have the dark side of the characters. That's usually what gets cut out.” IfsWellsCharacterFilmSidesDarkToo MuchCuttingSubjectsPressureMarketingStudiosGreat ThingsConstraintsDark SideIndie Films Author:Ty Burrell
“I never listen to debates. They are dreadful things indeed. The plain truth is that I am not a fair man, and don't want to hear both sides. On all known subjects, ranging from aviation to xylophone-playing, I have fixed and invariable ideas. They have not changed since I was four or five.” MenWantIdeasSidesKnownFiveFourSubjectsChangedTruth IsFairsDebateFixedAviationBoth Sides Author:H. L. Mencken
“I don't like taking a sly picture on the side. I like the direct approach. I want to be as honest to myself and the subject as possible. And I'm depending on their humanness to come through.” WantSidesSubjectsHonestApproachDirectSlyHumannessDirect Approach Author:Jurgen Teller
“I am genuinely sorry for scientists of the younger generation who never knew Fisher personally. So long as you avoided a handful of subjects like inverse probability that would turn Fisher in the briefest possible moment from extreme urbanity into a boiling cauldron of wrath, you got by with little worse than a thick head from the port which he, like the Cambridge mathematician J. E. Littlewood, loved to drink in the evening. And on the credit side you gained a cherished memory of English spoken in a Shakespearean style and delivered in the manner of a Spanish grandee.” LittlesLongMomentsTurnsSidesMemoriesGenerationsSubjectsStyleDrinkScientistSorryExtremesCreditEveningThickMathematicianProbabilityWrathHandfulAvoidedPortYounger GenerationBoilingCambridgeInverseCauldronsCherished Memories Author:Fred Hoyle