Quotations Quote by Susan Sontag Download Open image “We are ruled by quotations.” — Susan Sontag ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Quotations
Quotation, like much better things, has its abuses. One may quote till one compiles. The ancient lawyers used to quote at the bar till… — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
If my quotes do not follow rules, then let rules follow my quotes. — Mohammad MUSTAFA Copy Share Image
We sometimes think of quotations as extracts from larger texts, but some quotations originated complete unto themselves. — Gary Saul Morson Copy Share Image
Quotations have always been supremely effective rhetorical devices, instruments of one-upmanship, ways of supporting any position under the sun with borrowed or stolen authority. — Justin Kaplan Copy Share Image
Some lines are born quotations, some are made quotations, and some have "quotation" thrust upon them. — Gary Saul Morson Copy Share Image
Quotation is more universal and more ancient than one would perhaps believe. — James Boswell Copy Share Image
I'm a discursive thinker, so quotation has played an active role in the structure and content of my books from the beginning. — Masha Tupitsyn 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… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
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
Photographs objectify: they turn an event or a person into something that can be possessed. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Quotations can be valuable, like raisins in the rice pudding, for adding iron as well as eye appeal. — Peg Bracken Copy Share Image
Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience....A Journey With My Girl — Luckybannu Copy Share Image
You're trying too HARD to convince me that you're a TRUE friend & DEEP Down Inside you know you're not but you stick around… — Ta'Nisha Marie Copy Share Image
That quotation about not having time to stand and stare has never applied to me. I seem to have spent a good part of… — James Herriot Copy Share Image
Don't get anger, force yourself, complain others, waste time, thing much, compare yourself, except, sad, silent, stop thinking. — Jayanthi AJ Copy Share Image
Whatever we may say against collections, which present authors in a disjointed form, they nevertheless bring about many excellent results. We are not always… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
A Beautiful Saying Do Not Wish For Less Problems, Always Wish For More Skills. — Vinesh Copy Share Image
Pay attention and listen to the sayings of the wise; apply your heart to what I teach, for it is pleasing when you keep… — Bible Copy Share Image
“For their never-ending endeavours to obtain or retain wealth, countries desperately need companies, because they—unlike most human beings—have the means of production, and human… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
A forward critic often dupes us With sham quotations peri hupsos, And if we have not read Longinus, Will magisterially outshine us. Then, lest… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
