Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gustav Mahler

I don't choose what I compose. It chooses me.

Veronica Roth

I choose him over and over again, and he chooses me.

Vikram Seth

I don't pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.

Elizabeth Bowen

Writers do not find subjects; subjects find them.

Bruno Tonioli

I like to read about subjects unrelated to my work, especially history.

Barry White

Everyone to me has to pick a subject to talk about in music if you're going to be a writer.

Arthur Schopenhauer

That which knows all things and is known by none is the subject.

Saint Ignatius

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

Annie Dillard

A writer looking for subjects inquires not after what he loves best, but after what he alone loves at all.

Erica Jong

writers do not choose their subjects; their subjects choose them.

Jay Griffiths

A wild creature is not subject to any will except its own

J. R. Moehringer

You think you choose the subjects of your books. But sometimes, in ways you don't know, the books choose you.

Derek Blasberg

I feel like I have been portrayed as if I was standing outside Cipriani hoping someone picks me as their plus-one.

Richard Avedon

Any artist picks and chooses what they want to paint or write about or say. Photographers are the same.

Chris Colfer

You don’t get to pick where you’re from, but you always have control of where you’re going.

Mike Shanahan

When he's in there, there is a presence. He really picks up our team.

Dean Laidley

Hawthorn want two first-round picks and that's what we are offering.

Amy Waldman

Nothing in life gets dropped without someone else having to pick it up.

Rajon Rondo

I was trying to get up and pressure the ball, but the picks were very effective. It was very frustrating. It's a play that we run a lot, but they executed it very well.

Janet Frank

When (Life Flight) picks up a patient, they have nothing to do with money. When they're called, they pick the person up.

Drew Young

I thought he was ready (for varsity football) the first day I saw him. He's very intelligent and he picks things up quick. You tell him once and he's got it.