Susan Sontag Quotes

Literature is dialogue; responsiveness.

Susan Sontag

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• I see my role as a scholar announcing that women's feelings of unworthiness and insecurity often may be traced to training in a male-oriented religion, and I'm trying to investigate a richer spiritual life for both sexes.

  

  Barbara G. Walker
  • Life
  • Women
  • Trying

• I see myself as a true modernist. Even when I do a traditional gown, I give it a modern twist. I go to the past for research. I need to know what came before so I can break the rules.

  

  Vera Wang
  • True
  • Past
  • Myself

• I've always really liked the rhythm element of songs.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Always
  • Really
  • Rhythm

• Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • Knowledge
  • Wonder
  • Doubt

• Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Fall
  • Impossible
  • Compromise

• I'm lucky that I have my family, I'm lucky that my parents are still together. Those are the things that I cherish.

  

  Hailey Bieber
  • Family
  • Together
  • Parents

• The train's always full of football fans going up to see matches. Oh, they make sure I hear their points of view all right. They all want to have their say about their team, and make their opinions known.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Up
  • Team
  • Football

• Social conditions that spur large numbers of people into action are ignored in favor of a Hollywood version of history focusing on one conquering hero. Since a movement for social change is embodied in its leader, death of the leader means death of the movement.

  

  Patricia Hill Collins
  • People
  • History
  • Death

• It's really important, especially for young girls, to see that if you fall down, you get back up. If you get sick, you get back up. People are going to say what they want.

  

  Kat Graham
  • People
  • Up
  • Important

• Every time I sit for a song, I feel I am finished. It's like a beggar sitting waiting for God to fill your bowl with the right thought. In every song, I ask help from Him. Everybody around is so good, so to create music that will connect with so many people is not humanly possible without inspiration.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Music
  • God
  • Help

• I don't know how I got out of some of the scrapes I was in. But I know that there's some sort of plan.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Know
  • Plan
  • Got

• I never really do much research before signing a film. It is just the script and character that I concentrate on.

  

  Kareena Kapoor Khan
  • Character
  • Never
  • Research

• It is not often that idealism of student days finds adequate opportunity for expression in the later life of manhood.

  

  C. V. Raman
  • Life
  • Opportunity
  • Student

• As I told the students every time I visited a campus, you are the director of your own movie, and if you aren't enjoying what you are doing, change it.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Time
  • Movie
  • Change

• One problem I have with drug companies is that they don't make all their data public.

  

  Irving Kirsch
  • Problem
  • Drug
  • Public

• My judges preach against free love openly, practice it secretly.

  

  Victoria Woodhull
  • Love
  • Free
  • Practice

• I can't help but have my sights set on Scorsese, Cohen Brothers and Spike Jones.

  

  Xander Berkeley
  • Help
  • Brothers
  • Sights

• I don't go out unless I'm working. My quality time is when I'm doing nothing.

  

  Nas
  • Time
  • Quality
  • Doing

• Honestly, I grew up in pretty modest circumstances. We were a middle-class family.

  

  Larry Gagosian
  • Up
  • Family
  • Pretty

• When the fearsome foursome of rock music, Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Little Richard, and Jerry Lee Lewis, decided to show up in Toronto for a rock and roll festival, I knew we had to go there to try to get them all on film.

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • Up
  • Music
  • Rock

• I was a blacksmith's boy but yesterday; I am - what shall I say I am today?

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Today
  • Yesterday
  • Blacksmith

• Before all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best.

  

  Jules Verne
  • Masters
  • Teaches
  • Listened

• It's more fun to have a name rather than a number. I think this gives our products a personality. I get the names from literature, movies, opera, traveling, nature, poetry, sometimes even the street. I keep a small book that I write in. I wake up in the middle of the night and jot down a name for a lipstick or an eyeshadow.

  

  Francois Nars
  • Up
  • Book
  • Fun

• Literature is dialogue; responsiveness.

  

  Susan Sontag
  • Literature
  • Dialogue
  • Responsiveness