Subjects

Famous quotes containing the word subjects:

“We are the subjects of an experiment which is not a little interesting to me.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Conversation ... is like the table of contents of a dull book.... All the greatest subjects of human thought are proudly displayed in it. Listen to it for three minutes, and you ask yourself which is more striking, the emphasis of the speaker or his shocking ignorance.”
—Stendhal [Marie Henri Beyle] (1783–1842)

“Intellectuals have opinions on subjects they just heard about five minutes ago.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)