Susan Sontag Quotes
Art today is a new kind of instrument, an instrument for modifying consciousness and organizing new modes of sensibility.
Quotes to Explore
-
Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.
-
Every character I've ever played, I always try to take him right to the edge and not allow him to fall over, but directors have a tendency to pull me back a little bit.
-
When I first got to L.A., I thought every person in a limo was a star.
-
What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.
-
Life isn't easy, and leadership is harder still.
-
Russian Parliament today is a bunch of puppets that just fall in with the instructions from Kremlin.
Garry Kasparov
-
There's going to be positive and negative in anything in life.
-
Maybe you have to know darkness before you can appreciate the light.
-
Kinsey was six foot five, and he had this leader of men quality.
-
From its inception by Michael Bennett, 'Dreamgirls' has always been an epic story with an ensemble cast. I didn't change that. The screen version remains, really, a group story.
-
I'm a huge Top 40 lover.
-
It's important to know how to operate within the system you are existing in.
-
There's been roles that I have turned down. There's no rule book or handbook... It's just... whatever I'm comfortable with.
-
I hesitated before buying a Kindle. I wasn't worried that the digital reader would ruin literature as we know it. Rather, my concern centered on using an electronic device in the bathtub.
-
No offense to Boston, but I was glad to get out of there. I think it's just because I'm from Philly. Honestly, the blue collar side of each are pretty similar in ways, but something about the makeup of your brain, Philly versus Boston. It's a lot different, in weird ways.
-
It is not legitimate that an American citizen feels that they are more likely to be arrested or held to account or stopped and searched than someone else simply because of the color of their skin.
-
I would say to my colleague that the misery index, inflation and unemployment, when added together is the lowest it has been in the last series of Presidents, even going back to Jimmy Carter. So I think the Bush administration is doing a good job.
-
I first met Kim Dae Jung when he was a Korean dissident whose life was threatened by the military regime ruling in Seoul. I was Ronald Reagan's Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights, and Kim was directed to me because the East Asia Bureau at the State Department had long shunned him.
-
I hate a messy closet. I totally freak out when my closet is messy and I can't find anything.
-
A friend is a second self, so that our consciousness of a friend's existence...makes us more fully conscious of our own existence.
-
My artwork gets stolen all the time; it's ridiculous.
-
To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.
-
Art today is a new kind of instrument, an instrument for modifying consciousness and organizing new modes of sensibility.
