Famous quotes containing the word subject:
“Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.”
—Samuel Johnson (17091784)
“Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just dont happen to think its an appropriate subject for an ethic.”
—Barbara Ehrenreich (b. 1941)
“The writer, like a swimmer caught by an undertow, is borne in an unexpected direction. He is carried to a subject which has awaited hima subject sometimes no part of his conscious plan. Reality, the reality of sensation, has accumulated where it was least sought. To write is to be capturedcaptured by some experience to which one may have given hardly a thought.”
—Elizabeth Bowen (18991973)
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