Avid Quote by Susan Sontag Download Open image “Sight is a promiscuous sense. The avid gaze always wants more.” — Susan Sontag ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Avid Inspirational Promiscuous Sight Want
Sight is something you take for granted until you think you might lose it. — Paul Coffey Copy Share Image
Sight is a slick and overbearing autocrat, trumpeting its prodigal knowledge and perceptions so forcefully that it drowns out the other, subtler senses. — Rosemary Mahoney Copy Share Image
Sight is the least sensual of all the senses. And we strain ourselves to see, see, see--everything, everything through the eye, inone mode of… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“To look, see and observe are different ways of using the organ of sight, each with its own intensity, even when there is some deterioration, for example, to look without seeing, when someone is distracted, a common situation in traditional novels, or to see and not notice, when the eyes out of weariness and boredom avoid anything likely to tax… — José Saramago Copy Share
sight-seeing gratifies us in different ways. First, there is the pleasure of novelty; secondly, either that of admiration or fault-finding - the latter a… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
Sight is about what lies right in front of us. Vision is what lies ahead. — Thomas Haden Church Copy Share Image
the appetite for thinking must be regulated, as all sensible people know, for it may stifle one's life. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, moral beauty in art - like physical beauty in a person - is extremely perishable. It is nowhere so durable as artistic or… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Like the collector, the photographer is animated by a passion that, even when it appears to be for the present, is linked to a… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Anthropology has always struggled with an intense, fascinated repulsion towards its subject… [The anthropologist] submits himself to the exotic to confirm his own inner… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“Why not eliminate schooling between age 12-16? It’s biologically + psychologically too turbulent a time to be cooped up inside, made to sit all the time. During these years, kids would live communally – doing some work, anyway being physically active, in the countryside(...) This simple change in the age specificity of schooling would a) reduce adolescent discontent, anomie, boredom,… — Susan Sontag Copy Share
To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves, by having knowledge of them that they can never… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
One set of messages of the society we live in is: Consume. Grow. Do what you want. Amuse yourselves. The very working of this… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Currently intellectuals in Western Europe and North America are extremely demoralized and shaken by the rise of a virulent conservative tendency (which some have… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
With the modern diseases (once TB, now cancer) the romantic idea that the disease expresses the character is invariably extended to assert that the… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
As objects of contemplation, images of the atrocious can answer to several different needs. To steel oneself against weakness. To make oneself more numb.… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The creative phase of an idea coincides with the period during which it insists, cantankerously, on its boundaries, on what makes it different; but… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Greatness by nature includes a power, but not a will to power. ... The great man, whether we comprehend him in the most intense activity of his work or in the restful equipoise of his forces , is powerful, involuntarily and composedly powerful, but he is not avid for power. What he is avid for is the realization of what… — Martin Buber Copy Share
Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself... — Sophia Loren Copy Share Image
Gary Speed was honourable, trustworthy and a joy to manage. He was honest, he was a role model and he was a great bloke.… — Howard Wilkinson Copy Share Image
I'm an avid bicyclist, so I catch some sun while I'm out bicycling. — Dennis Muilenburg Copy Share Image
More than 3,500 hardcover novels are published each year. Even the most avid reader buys fewer than one a week. — M.J. Rose Copy Share Image
When she is older she will see in these resemblances a regrettable uniformity among individuals (they all stop at the same spots to kiss,… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
The one constant in this ever changing music business is the heartfelt and “ear to the ground” Indie Record Stores that avid music fans and artists alike know they can count on to keep music thriving locally. I tour all over the world, and it's these Indie Record Stores that many times make or break a market. People will always… — Dale Watson Copy Share
As her sons have seen her: the mother in patriarchy: controlling, erotic, castrating, heart-suffering, guilt-ridden, and guilt-provoking; a marble brow, a huge breast, an… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Thank you for reminding Canada that I'm a disappointment to them. I like hockey, I love it, but I'm not an avid hockey -… — Dustin Milligan Copy Share Image
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