Susan Sontag Quotes

A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.

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• Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Time
  • Age
  • Cheer

• In tight quarters, it's important to choose small-scale items.

  

  Candice Olson
  • Important
  • Small
  • Choose

• I like somebody who's not so crazy but likes to have a good time... and who is thoughtful and kind and easy to laugh with. Somebody you can just be yourself with one hundred and fifty percent.

  

  Kate Bosworth
  • Time
  • Good
  • Crazy

• There has always been a saying in baseball that you can't make a hitter, but I think you can improve a hitter. More than you can improve a fielder. More mistakes are made hitting than in any other part of the game.

  

  Ted Williams
  • Game
  • Baseball
  • Mistakes

• Do not learn more than you absolutely need to get through life.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Life
  • Learn
  • Need

• If we all band together against extremism and spend a few minutes a day using tools that have been proven to work, we can make a big difference in defending those values we share as Americans.

  

  Laura Moser
  • Work
  • Together
  • Day

• Filmmaking is a much more collaborative thing than literature, so you know you're going to be working with a group of people at the start. You know it's going to be a compromise.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • People
  • Literature
  • Start

• Pressure selling is firmly rooted in American economic life, and I'm sorry it is, for it should not be necessary. Some people think part of the panic following 1929 was due to too much pressure in selling.

  

  Vash Young
  • People
  • Life
  • American

• Sometimes it takes a brush with eternity - a crash, an illness, some shock to the system - to get you really thinking about what you want to do with your limited time here, and why you're living on this wobbling dirt clod in the first place.

  

  Hampton Sides
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Why

• To say I'm the easiest person to live with would be a lie.

  

  Yancy Butler
  • Live
  • Say
  • Lie

• Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Experience
  • Truth
  • True

• I feel a man, when married, becomes more balanced. All the extra-curricular activities are done away with. The focus is on work and family.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Work
  • Family
  • Done

• I'm trying to figure out the biology of dinosaurs and what they were like as living creatures.

  

  Jack Horner
  • Trying
  • Living
  • Biology

• And that's what art is, a form in which people can reflect on who we are as human beings and come to some understanding of this journey we are on.

  

  Wendell Pierce
  • People
  • Art
  • Understanding

• I've continually reminded myself that I never want to change. I could be on the cover of a magazine today, but next week someone else is going to be on that cover. You always have to remain the same person because when those opportunities end, guess what you have? You have you. And if you change from being you, you have nothing anymore.

  

  J. R. Martinez
  • Today
  • Change
  • End

• Perfect humility dispenses with modesty.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Perfect
  • Humility

• She fitted into my biggest armchair as if it had been built round her by someone who knew they were wearing armchairs tight about the hips that season.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • She

• One trusted machines. But one never expected machines to return the favor.

  

  Alastair Reynolds

• I used to publish these stories in 32-page comics, and I would either do short stories or break the long ones up into chunks so there would be some variety inside the comic. But since then, people have been doing more and more long, standalone works, and the term 'graphic novel' has sort of become the codified term now.

  

  Jim Woodring
  • People
  • Up
  • Long

• My favorite playwright is probably Samuel Beckett, and he was always laughing at the abyss.

  

  John Cameron Mitchell

• We want to play a really physical style ball, and so, for us tackling, we know we are shoulder-based tackling team, and we want to hit that strike zone just like you're throwing fastballs into that catchers' mitt just as hard as you can.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Want
  • Team
  • Style

• I just try to get people to laugh - I'm not trying to change the world or anything.

  

  Drew Carey
  • People
  • World
  • Trying

• A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.

  

  Susan Sontag
  • World
  • Attention
  • Writer