Susan Sontag Quotes

Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every day, year after year, alone.

Susan Sontag

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 16, 1933 - December 28, 2004

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AloneDayYearEvery DayRoomSit

In the old days of literature, only the very thick-skinned - or the very brilliant - dared enter the arena of literary criticism. To criticise a person's work required equal measures of erudition and wit, and inferior critics were often the butt of satire and ridicule.

Joanne Harris

WorkCriticismLiteraturePersonWit

You have to ask what is going to happen to a lot of companies when there is not a lot more money to be gotten. That changes everybody's perspective, I think.

Jerry Yang

MoneyPerspectiveThinkYouChanges

I am a blogger - that is an amazing thing for me, because it captures a moment in time every day.

Mena Grabowski Trott

TimeMomentDayI AmAmazingMe

I meet a lot of people when I do stand-up in the Middle East, and I don't know any terrorists, yet on TV and in the movies, 9 out of 10 are depicted as terrorists.

Maz Jobrani

PeopleKnowMoviesMeetOutMiddle

What we realize is number one, people want to know what the Bible says. In their heart, they want to know the Bible but it is just hard to understand the big picture of it. And number two, they want to know where they plug in.

Max Lucado

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I did my work slowly, drop by drop. I tore it out of me by pieces.

Maurice Ravel

WorkMeOutPiecesDropSlowly

My one wish for humanity is that everyone can become the person they were meant to be - what are the barriers to that? Often it's crushing poverty or certain circumstances.

Tom Morello

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Only having one melody instrument in play at a time meant that we could improvise more in our practices.

Liv Bruce

TimePlayMoreOnlyMelodyOur

I came in the league as not a shooter, not a scorer. My game was to play defense and make my teammates better. The most important stat to me was that left column - winning. Nothing else matters.

Jason Kidd

MeWinningGameBetterPlayNothing

I wish I trusted people more. But when I meet someone, the first thing is, 'What does this person want?' And I put up a defense mechanism. But I've always been that way.

Derek Jeter

PeopleSomeoneWishPersonMeetWay

To me, I love real estate because you can feel it.

Donald Trump

LoveMeReal EstateFeelYouReal

The truth is, we were sick of, every time we finished a movie, having to start all over again from nothing, going to a studio, pitching an idea, setting up a new office.

Dean Devlin

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