Subjects Quotations | Page 5

You have two choices, two paths to take as a comedian. You can tackle the difficult subjects and be harsh about it, be brash, be abrasive. But adding hatred to racism is not going to help everybody. So I like to have fun around it.

To have been able to write the books I wanted to write, on demanding subjects like war and the history of psychiatry, and for them to have sold in the numbers they have - and then go around saying: 'Actually, I'd also like to have won the Costa Book of the Year?' That would be ridiculous.

It was difficult getting all of the subjects and making the arrangements. Once we got a hold of them, they were great. But the higher the profile, the harder it was to arrange. Sometimes you had to go through layers of people just to reach them.

I'm trying to talk about challenging subjects people might not like and trying to find relief as we discuss it.

Sexes make no Difference; since in Souls there is none: And they are the Subjects of Friendship.

O Motherland! May we,your subjects unite and be 'sweet-speakers'! Bless all of us so that we too could be soft spoken.

The wellbeing of the head resounds throughout the whole body, and as are the Superiors, so, in turn, will their subjects be.

There are some subjects in school that I love, but it can still feel like a chore. Acting never feels like a chore.

I dread specialists in power because they are specialists speaking outside of their special subject.

We come to Scripture not to learn a subject but to steep ourselves in a person.