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Time Quotes by Susan Sontag
- Remember when you hear yourself saying one day that you don't have time anymore to read or listen to music or look at paintings or…
- It's a pleasure to share one's memories. Everything remembered is dear, endearing, touching, precious. At least the past is safe though we didn't know it…
- The shock of photographed atrocities wears off with repeated viewings, just as the surprise and bemusement felt the first time one sees a pornographic movie…
- Chris Marker has a brilliant mind and heart and appetite for life, and it's a privilege to travel with him to whatever he chooses to…
- Photographs may be more memorable than moving images, because they are a neat slice of time, not a flow. Each still photograph is a privileged…
- It is a nostalgic time right now, and photographs actively promote nostalgia. Photography is an elegiac art, a twilight art. Most subjects photographed are, just…
- I write in spurts. I write when I have to because the pressure builds up and I feel enough confidence that something has matured in…
- His view of time, and of change, has become that of most elderly people: he hates change, since for him - for his body -…
- The point is to get a good rhythm, to make it mindless, almost as a daydream. To walk like breathing. To make it what the…
- Time may enhance what seems simply dogged or lacking in fantasy now because we are too close to it, because it resembles too closely our…
- Just as a camera is a sublimation of the gun, to photograph someone is a subliminal murder - a soft murder, appropriate to a sad,…
- To take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify…
- The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects - making it possible... to see a new beauty…
- To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves, by having knowledge of them that they can never have;…
- Time exists in order that everything doesn’t happen all at once…and space exists so that it doesn’t all happen to you.
- To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
- Today is such a time, when the project of interpretation is largely reactionary, stifling. Like the fumes of the automobile and of heavy industry which…
- Instead of expecting all and being lowered into despair each time I get less, I expect nothing now and, occasionally, I get a little, and…
- Literature was the passport to enter a larger life; that is, the zone of freedom. Literature was freedom. Especially in a time in which the…
- Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
- Conventions vs. spontaneity. This is a dialectical choice, it depends on the assessment you make of your own times. If you judge that your own…
- Perhaps it is our perennial fate to be surprised by the simultaneity of events, by the sheer extension of the world in time and space.…
More Time Quotes
- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
- As far as we are concerned, we are ready to leave today, tomorrow, at any time, to join the people of Haiti,… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The first time Haiti had free and fair democratic elections was 1990, when I was elected. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and… — Aristotle
- I feel like obviously the standard for what TV looks like changes all the time. — J. J. Abrams
- For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does… — Aristotle
- The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication. — Aristotle
- We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner… — Aristotle
- But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless… — Aristotle
- Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there… — Aristotle
- I design for real people. I think of our customers all the time. There is no virtue whatsoever in creating clothing or… — Giorgio Armani
- I love things that age well - things that don't date, that stand the test of time and that become living examples… — Giorgio Armani