Topic Quotes

I'm sick of people sittin' in chairs stating their problems.

Then we roll the videotape... then we have our experts on the topic... I'm in the 'What's next?' phase of my career.

Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial.

I think it's been the topic of conversation for every one.

.. If the U.S. is hit again, how are we going to handle it? Our troops are all over the place.

I feel like if you read something, and it makes you so curious about a topic that you then go read something else, that's exciting.

At least believe this many humans, who are interested obviously in this topic.

Many of them visited me after lectures and meetings, in hope that I can give concrete answers to their questions. For it was clear: If that does not know it, who is to then know it?

Within psychology and neuroscience, some new and rigorous experimental paradigms for studying consciousness have helped it begin to overcome the stigma that has been attached to the topic for most of this century.

I argue very well. Ask any of my remaining friends. I can win an argument on any topic, against any opponent. People know this, and steer clear of me at parties. Often, as a sign of their great respect, they don't even invite me.

Real good breeding, as the people have it here, is one of the finest things now going in the world. The careful avoidance of all discussion, the swift hopping from topic to topic, does not agree with me; but the graceful style they do it with is beyond that of minuets!

I happen to feel that the degree of a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting attitudes she can bring to bear on the same topic.

If you ever have to support a flagging conversation, introduce the topic of eating.

You can judge a good listener by asking the talker at the end of the conversation what the listener's position is on the topic. If the talker doesn't know, then the listener has probably done a good job of listening.

There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers. If you have not slept, or if you have slept, or if you have headache, or sciatica, or leprosy, or thunder-stroke, I beseech you, by all angels, to hold your peace, and not pollute the morning.

Open debate and full discourse on the topic of torture is a double-edged sword.

My favorite water cooler topic is fantasy football.

I used to make fun of friends for doing it and now I'm obsessed.

I think reading is important in any form.

I think a person who's trying to learn to like reading should start off reading about a topic they are interested in, or a person they are interested in.

I'd think of a topic and just rant on it and transfer it to the computer, upload it. It's such a quick thing. You post it on your website and after an hour, 10 people write comments.

The conversation topic in my head is not what role I should play;

it is whether I am going to play at all.

Well, as a songwriter, it's really dangerous to use the word love in a song.

It's a word that has been used in songs so many millions of times before, and it's the most popular topic to ever write about.

I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.

We should not use special budget procedures to jam through legislation to drill in the Arctic Refuge. This topic is too important to the public to address it in such a back-door manner. We should be having a full, open discussion of the issue during an energy debate.

Convinced as I am and as I am from my government that the world needs a new moral architecture over all I believe that this should be the first topic to debate in our world of today, ethics, moral.

Ay, rail at gaming - 'tis a rich topic, and affords noble declamation.

Go, preach against it in the city - you'll find a congregation in every tavern.

I can win an argument on any topic, against any opponent.

People know this, and steer clear of me at parties. Often, as a sign of their great respect, they don't even invite me.

Art and money are closely related. Try sitting down with a group of artists and ask them what's on their mind. Very quickly the topic shifts to money. And it can be very hard to get them off that subject.

If the scholar feels that he must know everything about any topic, he is in trouble - and will not publish with a clear conscience.

When I select a topic, it's usually a commitment of two to three years of my life.

There are no taboos. Every topic is open, however shocking. It is the way that the topics are handled that's important, and that applies whether it is a 15-year-old who is reading your book or someone who is 55.

When I started writing a business column 15 years ago, I knew I'd found the perfect job for myself. As a columnist I could pick my own topic, do my own analysis, say what I wanted to say and attribute it to myself. Best of all, I could write in my own voice.

I think it will bring back discussion about Columbine.

When Columbine happened it was the topic of the week, and we shouldn't have just moved on to something else. Whether people like the film or not, it's going to make them think about what happened.

I think that consciousness has always been the most important topic in the philosophy of mind, and one of the most important topics in cognitive science as a whole, but it had been surprisingly neglected in recent years.

If you spend any time in Los Angeles, there's only one topic of conversation.

With the question of the effect of a poem, the topic of investigation shifts from that of textual autonomy to textual reception - to the issue of what we actually look for or find in reading a poem.

Food was a constant topic of conversation in our household.

It's funny because I think a lot of it is simply.

.. We've never considered ourselves satirists, but because we're on Comedy Central and because we're South Park on Comedy Central, we can do any topic we want.

Really the topic of breakfast cereal is generally a very boring one.

In the late 1950s a major topic under discussion was whether Canada should acquire nuclear weapons.

Half of Google's revenue comes from selling text-based ads that are placed near search results and are related to the topic of the search. Another half of its revenues come from licensing its search technology to companies like Yahoo.

Most people come out of their Ph.D. experience trying to prove themselves, trying to get ahead, trying to get published. You're scared everybody else is going to do your research and get your topic.

It makes sense that whatever the topic is, it's more compelling if you can provide the audience with a range of perspectives, and you can cross disciplines. And you don't have to control what people take out of it.

Even though money seems such an objective topic, it can also be the most intimate, and possibly harmful, part of a relationship.

Hamilton had one of those extraordinary 18th-century minds that touched on virtually every major topic of the day.

Robots... I think that is a hot topic.

For instance, one big issue in hip hop is the gay thing.

It's 2013, and it's a shame that, to this day, that topic still gets people all excited. It's crazy. And it makes me upset that this topic even matters when it comes to hip hop, because it makes it seem like everybody in hip hop is small-minded or stupid - and that's not the case.

One of the things I did when I discovered this huge importance of being vulnerable is very happily moved away from the shame research, because that's such a downer, and people hate that topic. It's not that vulnerability is the upside, but it's better than shame, I guess.

There are half a dozen subjects that I return to time and time again, and that doesn't bother me. Because most of my favorite writers do that, to hunt down the same topic or theme from different directions each time.

The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.

I guess, topic to topic, you could consider me a left-leaning person.

The topic of leadership is a touchy one.

A lot of leaders fail because they don't have the bravery to touch that nerve or strike that chord. Throughout my years, I haven't had that fear.

Presidential campaigns are exhausting.

Once they're over, we all heave a sigh of relief that we have our lives back, the constant emails and news reports no longer harangue us, and the topic even turns at times to something else entirely.

But it seemed to me that as soon as you have computer storage you could put every point you wanted in - make the ones that are less relevant to your central topic, further away or allow the central topic to move as the reader proceeded.