Susan Sontag Famous Quotes
"AIDS obliges people to think of sex as having, possibly, the direst consequences suicide. Or murder."
"The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects -- making it possible to see a new beauty in what is vanishing."
AIDS occupies such a large part in our awareness because of what it has been taken to represent. It seems the very model of all the catastrophes privileged populations feel await them.
What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.
"The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own."
Susan Sontag Quotations
"It is not so important to be serious as it is to be serious about the important things. The monkey wears an expression of seriousness which would do credit to any college student, but the monkey is serious because he itches."
Robert Hutchins
How different the new order would be if we could consult the veteran instead of the politician.
Henry Miller
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
Robert Anson Heinlein
'Lost Illusion' is the undisclosed title of every novel.
Andr Maurois
"The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs."
Charles De Gaulle
"There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there id only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost."
Martha Graham
Nobody likes the man who brings bad news.
Sophocles
"In those days spirits were brave, the stakes were high, men were real men, women were real women and small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were real small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri."
Douglas Adams
"The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands."
Oscar Wilde
"Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do belive in Art for Art's sake."
E M Forster