Let us dance in the sun, wearing wild flowers in our hair...
Susan Polis Schutz
Related
In the '60s not everybody was wearing flowers in their hair and flowing caftans.
BAZ LUHRMANN It's often difficult for those who are lucky enough to have never experienced what true depressi...
SUSAN POLIS SCHUTZ This life is yours. Take the power to choose what you want to do and do it well. Take the power to l...
SUSAN POLIS SCHUTZ I was always a happy and loving person. Many would say that I was living an idyllic life.
SUSAN POLIS SCHUTZ Through my own struggles with depression, I discovered that knowledge, therapy, medication and educa...
SUSAN POLIS SCHUTZ Getting better from depression demands a lifelong commitment. I've made that commitment for my l...
SUSAN POLIS SCHUTZ My own life was filled with so much love and joy that when depression struck, it was like a prison d...
SUSAN POLIS SCHUTZ Love is . . . Being happy for the other person when they are happy, Being sad for the person when th...
SUSAN POLIS SCHUTZ I LOVE YOU SO MANY REASONS '
---
Before i met you
I spent a lot of time
...
SUSAN POLIS SCHUTZ Caution not spirit, let it roam wild; for in that natural state dance embraces divine frequency.
SHAH ASAD RIZVI For dance recitals, my mom would do my makeup all extravagant because obviously I was really little ...
JILLIAN HERVEY Learn to dance among the wildflowers never forgetting you are a blade of grass. A beautiful green pi...
MARCY CHRISTON Yes,” Bernarde quipped, “Deal with me, Jean Luc. Come and dance with the night, brother. Let us ...
KATERINA MARTINEZ Mindfulness gives us the power to understand our deep connection with the trees, flowers, stars, sun...
AMIT RAY In Dark Places,
May we Never be truly Alone.....
~Susan Schroder, Circle the Sun books
SUSAN SCHRODER Now the summer's in prime
Wi' the flowers richly blooming,
And the wild mountain thyme
A...
ROBERT TANNAHILL He called out to his fellow monks,'Come quickly I am tasting stars.
JOHN GREEN She was intimidating and all I could do was sit back on the couch as she paced back and forth, slowl...
IN THE MAKING you left
and i wanted you still
yet i deserved someone
who was willing to stay
RUPI KAUR In the beginning, I didn't dance that much and stuff.
NAMIE AMURO People with red hair are supposed to get mad very easily,...,and he had very red hair.
J.D. SALINGER Do not be frightened, friend. Let us dance our way to God.
KAMAND KOJOURI What else? She is so beautiful. You don’t get tired of looking at her. You never worry if she is s...
JOHN GREEN Pero diré esto: Cuando los científicos del futuro aparezcan en mi casa con ojos robot y me digan q...
JOHN GREEN Wow,” I said. “Are you making this up?”
“Hazel Grace, could I, with my meager intellect...
JOHN GREEN Finally, I decided that the proper strategy was to stare back. Boys do not have a monopoly on the St...
JOHN GREEN We were sitting there on the couch together, and he pushed himself up to go but then fell back down ...
JOHN GREEN So it’s your death suit.”
“Correct. Don’t you have a death outfit?”
“Yeah,”...
JOHN GREEN I spent your Wish on that doucheface,” I said into his chest.
“Hazel Grace. No. I will gran...
JOHN GREEN «Hazel Grace,” he said, my name new and better in his voice. “It has been a real pleasure to ma...
JOHN GREEN Cold,” he said, pressing a finger to my pale wrist.
“Not cold so much as underoxygenated,�...
JOHN GREEN If he is anything other than a total gentleman, I’m going to gouge his eyes out.”
“So you...
JOHN GREEN People always get used to beauty, though.”
“I haven’t gotten used to you just yet,” he ...
JOHN GREEN Augustus: “You probably need some rest.”
Me: “I’m okay.”
Augustus: “Okay.” (...
JOHN GREEN Time's a slut, she screws with everyone.
JOHN GREEN como toda pregunta sobre el universo, esta vía de investigación nos obliga inevitablemente a pregu...
J.K. ROWLING No puedes escoger si serás lastimado en este mundo, pero si puedes decidir quién te lastima
JOHN GREEN But it's your life.
JOHN GREEN No matter how hard you kick, no matter how high you get, you can't go all the way round.
JOHN GREEN Cancer kids are essentially side effects of the relentless mutation that made the diversity of life ...
JOHN GREEN No puedes elegir si van hacerte daño en este mundo, pero sí eliges quién te lo hace.
JOHN GREEN you clench your teeth,you look up, you tell yourself that if they see you cry, it will hurt them,and...
JOHN GREEN That's the think about pain. It demands to be felt.
JOHN GREEN Seriously, don't even get me started on my hot bod. You don't want to see me naked, Dave. seeing me ...
JOHN GREEN Writing does not resurrect. It buries..
JOHN GREEN Pero diré esto: Cuando los científicos del futuro aparezcan en mi casa con ojos robot y me digan q...
JOHN GREEN You’re arguing that the fragile, rare thing is beautiful simply because it is fragile and rare. Bu...
JOHN GREEN So how’s it going?”
“Okay. Glad to be home, I guess. Gus told me you were in the ICU?”<...
JOHN GREEN Still perfect,” he said. “Read to me.”
“This isn’t really a poem to read aloud when y...
JOHN GREEN Let us keep the dance of rain our fathers kept and tread our dreams beneath the jungle sky.
ARNA BONTEMPS I will be the gladdest thing under the sun! I will touch a hundred flowers and not pick one.
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Wildflowers don't grow haphazardly us we are led to believe. They grow in fantastic patterns which a...
ANTHONY T.HNICKS I was a bit of a Victorian Lady, fainting-wise.
JOHN GREEN While I did not fancy myself a particularly good person, I never thought my first real sexual action...
JOHN GREEN Mom sobbed something into Dad's chest that I wish I hadn't heard, and that I hope she never finds ou...
JOHN GREEN Come over here so I can examine your face with my hands and see deeper into your soul than a sighted...
JOHN GREEN But it is the nature of stars to cross, and never was Shakespeare more wrong than when he has Cassiu...
JOHN GREEN But this was the truth, a pitiful boy who desperately wanted not to be pitiful, screaming and crying...
JOHN GREEN I'm feeling grand. I'm on a rollercoaster only going up.
AUGUSTUS WATERS THE FAULT IN OUR STARS Europe began as the relatively empty, uncivilized Wild West of Asia; then the Western Hemisphere bec...
GORE VIDAL What she did was to open our eyes to details of country life such as teaching us names of wild flowe...
LAURIE LEE Wild flowers grow where they will.
RACHEL LAMBERT MELLON Let the sun shine in.
ANTI-WAR POSTER Heat in her birds of prey fingertips, smoke of gilded flowers in her aureate gorging hair.
LAURA GENTILE To enjoy the rainbows, let us dance in the rain. To get lost in the beauty of nature, keep your wind...
DEBASISH MRIDHA Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.
VOLTAIRE Let us read and let us dance - two amusements that will never do any harm to the world.
VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) Let us read and let us dance - two amusements that will never do any harm to the world.
VOLTAIRE He told her the flowers in her painting contained exactly the purple substance of the flowers on the...
SARAH HALL I don't wear dresses and flowers in my hair and float around!
VICTORIA LEGRAND All that is important is this one moment in movement. Make the moment important, vital, and worth li...
MARTHA GRAHAM Let us rather run the risk of wearing out than rusting out.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT If wearing a weave is what makes you feel beautiful, if wearing a wig, if wearing your hair pink, bl...
TRACEE ELLIS ROSS I love your roots, not the flower everybody sees!
AKILNATHAN LOGESWARAN Fool! Never wait on a man! Let him wait on himself!
V.C. ANDREWS With stars in her eyes and veils in her hair, with cyclamen and wild violets—what nonsense was he ...
VIRGINIA WOOLF If you're going to San Francisco, Be sure to wear some flowers in your hair
J. B. PHILLIPS In the beginning, there was nothing and from nothing came our species then behold the dawn of music....
GARY F EVANS... Is it still cool to go to the mall?' she asked. 'I take quite a lot of pride in not knowing what's c...
JOHN GREEN You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world, old man, but you do have some say in who hurt...
JOHN GREEN I imagined the Augustus Waters analysis of that comment: If I am playing basketball in heaven, does ...
JOHN GREEN All salvation is temporary," Augustus shot back. "I bought them a minute. Maybe that's the minute th...
JOHN GREEN That's why I like you. Do you realize how rare it is to come across a hot girl who creates a adjecti...
JOHN GREEN We’re as likely to hurt the universe as we are to help it, and we’re not likely to do either.
JOHN GREEN It's just that most really good-looking people are stupid, so I exceed expectations.'
'Right, i...
JOHN GREEN It's a metaphor, see: You put the killing thing right between your teeth, but you don't give it the ...
JOHN GREEN I'm on a rollercoaster that only goes up
JOHN GREEN I want to see you again tonight, but I'm willing to wait all night and much of tomorrow - Augustus W...
JOHN GREEN I’m in love with you,” he said quietly.
"Augustus," I said.
"I am," he said. He ...
JOHN GREEN I fear oblivion. I fear it like the proverbial blind man who's afraid of the dark.
JOHN GREEN I just held her hand and tried to imagine the world without us and for about one second I was a good...
JOHN GREEN Girls think they’re only allowed to wear dresses on formal occasions, but I like a woman who says,...
JOHN GREEN I am in the midst of a soliloquy! I wrote this out and memorized it and if you interrupt me I will c...
JOHN GREEN you gave me a forever within the numbered days and i can't tell you how thankful i am for our little...
JOHN GREEN I’ve stopped thinking about it. I don’t have time to have a girlfriend. I have like a full-time ...
JOHN GREEN My parents were my two best friends. My third best friend was an author who did not know I existed.
JOHN GREEN I pulled the oxygen tubes from my nostrils and raised the tube up over my head, handing it to Dad. I...
JOHN GREEN He took a long drink, then grimaced. “I do not have a drinking problem,” he announced, his voice...
JOHN GREEN Thank you for wearing that dress which is like whoa.
JOHN GREEN I want to minimize the deaths I am responsible for.
JOHN GREEN
More Susan Polis Schutz
It's often difficult for those who are lucky enough to have never experienced what true depressi...
SUSAN POLIS SCHUTZ This life is yours. Take the power to choose what you want to do and do it well. Take the power to l...
SUSAN POLIS SCHUTZ I was always a happy and loving person. Many would say that I was living an idyllic life.
SUSAN POLIS SCHUTZ Through my own struggles with depression, I discovered that knowledge, therapy, medication and educa...
SUSAN POLIS SCHUTZ Getting better from depression demands a lifelong commitment. I've made that commitment for my l...
SUSAN POLIS SCHUTZ My own life was filled with so much love and joy that when depression struck, it was like a prison d...
SUSAN POLIS SCHUTZ Love is . . . Being happy for the other person when they are happy, Being sad for the person when th...
SUSAN POLIS SCHUTZ I LOVE YOU SO MANY REASONS '
---
Before i met you
I spent a lot of time
...
SUSAN POLIS SCHUTZ That's when I feel really excited about a painting. When it starts to feel real, when it feels l...
DANA SCHUTZ I just saw a clip of Maria Bamford. She has a comedy show that was filmed and performed from her bed...
DANA SCHUTZ I think that's just part of how it is with making art. Sometimes you're just flooded with id...
DANA SCHUTZ There are a lot of artists in Gowanus, and certain things come into your visual vocabulary from livi...
DANA SCHUTZ I like the feeling of not knowing where to look when you are only performing for one person or watch...
DANA SCHUTZ I often use hypothetical situations to generate information and imagery for paintings and to create ...
DANA SCHUTZ The distinction between reality and fiction in America seems like it is becoming really blurry. With...
DANA SCHUTZ I'm mostly drawn to narratives that are difficult for me to visualize.
DANA SCHUTZ I don't see how Lehman shares can go up meaningfully from here. This is a record valuation for them....
ANTON SCHUTZ These are all steps in the right direction. Clearly the sale of the aircraft unit is a positive. I h...
ANTON SCHUTZ This is a precursor to a deal -- but I would not look for something that changes the face of the fra...
ANTON SCHUTZ Mack is not going to sell damaged goods. If he can fix it, he'll get a higher price.
ANTON SCHUTZ I'm never interested in the painting being a mirror to culture. I think that's really boring...
DANA SCHUTZ Is any of this stuff going to destroy the underlying value of Citigroup? ... The answer is: No.
ANTON SCHUTZ There is nothing wrong that you can criticize and say it's a bad quarter.
ANTON SCHUTZ Mack is certainly going to continue to reshape the company and the board,
ANTON SCHUTZ You basically had a board that backed Purcell, and Purcell has gone, so you would expect over time t...
ANTON SCHUTZ Mack is certainly going to continue to reshape the company and the board. There will be guys who are...
ANTON SCHUTZ I think we can certainly see another few (leaving). It's going to be different company going forward...
ANTON SCHUTZ Even the pigeons are dancing, kissing,
going in circles, mounting each other.
Paris is the...
SAMANTHA SCHUTZ I cry and wonder
how I'm going to fall asleep
because sleeping means waking
and going...
SAMANTHA SCHUTZ I am the cure and the disease.
SAMANTHA SCHUTZ I visit him a few times downtown
while he paints.
We talk about how he's going to Spain SAMANTHA SCHUTZ It's nice to have a conference win. We've got a great group of kids and they proved that they can pl...
KALLI SCHUTZ I couldn't ask for a better game from them. I wasn't sure how they were going to handle three games ...
KALLI SCHUTZ My constituents include CU Buffs, ski bums, techies, artists, suburban soccer moms, and proud, hard-...
JARED POLIS My district is centered around the progressive college town of Boulder, Colorado, and the high-tech ...
JARED POLIS In my opinion, real reform, which lowers costs and ensures all Americans get the quality, affordable...
JARED POLIS Far too many of our elected officials are chained to an ideology that is rooted in the past. They ar...
JARED POLIS Pizza certainly has its place in school meals, but equating it with broccoli, carrots and celery ser...
JARED POLIS One of my main legislative efforts in education is to help expand and replicate successful charter s...
JARED POLIS My favorite part of the experience of serving in Congress is knowing that my time and effort are spe...
JARED POLIS Churches should be able to decide what kinds of unions are sanctified by their denomination, but not...
JARED POLIS Patience, they say, is a virtue. Yet in times of emergency, the government needs to be able to make ...
JARED POLIS Technology improves our lives in so many ways - from our toasters, ovens, and refrigerators at home ...
JARED POLIS I oppose piracy and want to see intellectual property protected because that is what fosters and rew...
JARED POLIS We can no more condone the wastefulness of self-serving company executives than we can the sacrifice...
JARED POLIS One of my heroes growing up was Jackie Robinson. My mom, an ardent baseball fan from whom I got my l...
JARED POLIS The passage of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act - or stimulus bill, as it is often called ...
JARED POLIS Too often, our most vulnerable students - English-language learners, immigrants, poor kids, teenage ...
JARED POLIS I am committed to leveling the playing field and expanding opportunity to all.
JARED POLIS Congress seems to thrive on breaking promises and passing unfunded mandates down to local government...
JARED POLIS Our students are the best investment we can make for our country and our future economic prosperity....
JARED POLIS I remember well my first 300 baud modem, which dialed up and scrolled text at an agonizingly slow sp...
JARED POLIS In order to create real, long-lasting reform, we must create a pathway to legal status for the milli...
JARED POLIS From the newest arrivals to our Native American brothers and sisters, we are one America.
JARED POLIS The federal government has an exceptionally poor record of behaving responsibly with Americans' ...
JARED POLIS While most of my public service work centers on improving our schools and fixing our broken immigrat...
JARED POLIS Many rogue sites exist to make a profit and others are enormously expensive to maintain. If they don...
JARED POLIS Someone who is wrongfully accused needs to do their best to put it behind them and move on.
JARED POLIS It can be a living hell to go through endless campus investigations. I've seen this go down, and...
JARED POLIS Having to censor yourself - whether it's lying at the water cooler about how you spent your week...
JARED POLIS There are a lot of children in our country that, because of their neighborhood or socio-economic sta...
JARED POLIS It's critical to show that we can meet our commitment to students with disabilities without rais...
JARED POLIS The foundation of a strong economy and job creation begins with providing every child in America wit...
JARED POLIS Throughout history, we have only moved forward when society has distinguished between traditional va...
JARED POLIS Negotiating deals among members of Congress is an exercise in wearing masks, scaring up votes, and, ...
JARED POLIS The expedition engages students by having them learn directly from the scientists. We're trying to c...
CALEB M. SCHUTZ What we are dealing with, what we are talking about, is very intangible. Through the project we are ...
CALEB M. SCHUTZ We are teaching real science that is standards based, but we are letting the students have the exper...
CALEB M. SCHUTZ I think of myself as something of a connoisseur of procrastination, creative and dogged in my approa...
SUSAN ORLEAN Hard work - I mean, does anybody use that term anymore? Laziness doesn't fly. It's all in th...
SUSAN POWTER At the end of the day, both men and women who become CEOs have showed tenacity and hard work to succ...
SUSAN WOJCICKI Coming out of the Louvre for the first time in 1971, dizzy with new love, I stood on Pont Neuf and m...
SUSAN VREELAND Winter in the country is very white. There is black grit on all the shoulders of the roads and on th...
SUSAN ORLEAN A snow day literally and figuratively falls from the sky, unbidden, and seems like a thing of wonder...
SUSAN ORLEAN My life is fair game for anybody. I spent an unhappy, penniless childhood in Brooklyn. I had to slug...
SUSAN HAYWARD When I travel, I always take my Winsor & Newton watercolor kit, which is the size of a pack of c...
SUSAN MINOT To my great surprise, Twitter is not housed in a silver pod that orbits Earth at supersonic speeds, ...
SUSAN ORLEAN I've been married so long, I am on my third bottle of Tabasco sauce.
SUSAN VASS A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considere...
SUSAN SONTAG The writer is either a practicing recluse or a delinquent, guilt-ridden one; or both. Usually both.
SUSAN SONTAG The best emotions to write out of are anger and fear or dread. The least energizing emotion to write...
SUSAN SONTAG Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we...
SUSAN ERTZ Soaring prescription drug costs have placed a tremendous strain on family budgets. They have also im...
SUSAN COLLINS My own cabaret is constantly evolving with what is occurring in my own life, so motherhood is a natu...
SUSAN EGAN One of the things I was hoping to do in the Secretary of the State's Office when I came was to p...
SUSAN BYSIEWICZ I want to let my friend Buster know that I would like to have dinner with him tonight. Does Buster w...
SUSAN ORLEAN The kids are Job One. So, to be quite candid, if they need me, I do my utmost to make sure I'm t...
SUSAN RICE I can't begin to count how many times I have warned politicians and candidates to worry as much ...
SUSAN ESTRICH My first novel, 'Compromising Positions,' was a whodunit. The protagonist was a Long Island ...
SUSAN ISAACS I try to live my life every day in the present, and try not to turn a blind eye to injustice and nee...
SUSAN SARANDON I'll never throw away my blue jeans.
SUSAN FORD So much of memory comes from the beginning of our lives when we know the world for the first time wi...
SUSAN SHREVE Most people don't know who Ken Mehlman is. He's the chairman of the Republican Party, obviou...
SUSAN ESTRICH We don't have an eternity to realize our dreams, only the time we are here.
SUSAN TAYLOR Lying is the most simple form of self-defence. -Susan Sontag.
SUSAN SONTAG A large part of the popularity and persuasiveness of psychology comes from its being a sublimated sp...
SUSAN SONTAG The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.
SUSAN SONTAG It's a pleasure to share one's memories. Everything remembered is dear, endearing, touching, precio...
SUSAN SONTAG I wonder what book signings will be like when most of the books we read are electronic. Will authors...
SUSAN ORLEAN After one hundred days of confinement following a bone marrow transplant, I rejoiced in taking short...
SUSAN VREELAND Do you really have to be the ice queen intellectual or the slut whore? Isn't there some way to be bo...
SUSAN SARANDON It is the nature of aphoristic thinking to be always in a state of concluding; a bid to have the fin...
SUSAN SONTAG Although none of the rules for becoming more alive is valid, it is healthy to keep on formulating th...
SUSAN SONTAG We have a great location between Boston and New York, a highly educated work force, and Connecticut ...
SUSAN BYSIEWICZ I had wanted to be a regular character on a series for a while. 'The Brady Bunch' was an ans...
SUSAN OLSEN I would rather be at Reggae Sunsplash, which happens once a year, than doing some horrible Brady Bun...
SUSAN OLSEN Introverts, in contrast, may have strong social skills and enjoy parties and business meetings, but ...
SUSAN CAIN War-making is one of the few activities that people are not supposed to view realistically; that is,...
SUSAN SONTAG Reality Check
His lying is not contigent on who you are or what you do. His lying is not your f...
SUSAN FORWARD Religion is probably, after sex, the second oldest resource which human beings have available to the...
SUSAN SONTAG Al forms of consensus about great books and perennial problems, once stabilized, tend to deteriorate...
SUSAN SONTAG American energy is the energy of violence, of free-floating resentment and anxiety unleashed by chro...
SUSAN SONTAG The quality of American life is an insult to the possibilities of human growth... the pollution of A...
SUSAN SONTAG Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art. Even more. It is the revenge of the intelle...
SUSAN SONTAG The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art -- and, by analogy, our own expe...
SUSAN SONTAG In most modern instances, interpretation amounts to the philistine refusal to leave the work of art ...
SUSAN SONTAG Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the ra...
SUSAN SONTAG Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading towa...
SUSAN SONTAG I believe in using words, not fists... I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on...
SUSAN SARANDON What is most beautiful in virile men is sometimes feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women...
SUSAN SONTAG The more interesting life becomes, in other words, the more boredom we are doomed to experience.
SUSAN MAUSHART When the enemy has no face, society will invent one.
SUSAN FALUDI Ah, Macy Joleen O'James, I love you. More than I ever knew it was possible to love someone. I want t...
SUSAN ANDERSEN Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration's shove or society's kiss on your forehe...
SUSAN SONTAG The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
SUSAN SONTAG She knew with painful certainty that the opposite of love was not hate, but indifference.
SUSAN WIGGS Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers. The questio...
SUSAN SONTAG So that’s your sister?” asks Dee in a quiet voice.
“Yeah.”
“The one you risked y...
SUSAN EE We all go through the same things - it's just a different kind of the same thing
SUSAN GLASPELL And it's really very difficult to kill someone when all your inner instincts would oblige you to tak...
SUSAN KAY A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world."
[Speech upon being awa...
SUSAN SONTAG Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
SUSAN SONTAG Most men experience getting older with regret, apprehension. But most women experience it even more ...
SUSAN SONTAG It's a pleasure to share one's memories. Everything remembered is dear, endearing, touching, preciou...
SUSAN SONTAG Unfortunately, moral beauty in art -- like physical beauty in a person -- is extremely perishable. I...
SUSAN SONTAG Nature in America has always been suspect, on the defensive, cannibalized by progress. In America, e...
SUSAN SONTAG The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities.
SUSAN SONTAG The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
SUSAN SONTAG It is not altogether wrong to say that there is no such thing as a bad photograph -- only less inter...
SUSAN SONTAG In America, the photographer is not simply the person who records the past, but the one who invents ...
SUSAN SONTAG The taste for worst-case scenarios reflects the need to master fear of what is felt to be uncontroll...
SUSAN SONTAG The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjec...
SUSAN SONTAG Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
SUSAN SONTAG You're only has good as your last haircut.
SUSAN LEE Any important disease whose causality is murky, and for which treatment is ineffectual, tends to be ...
SUSAN SONTAG With the modern diseases (once TB, now cancer) the romantic idea that the disease expresses the char...
SUSAN SONTAG The ideology of capitalism makes us all into connoisseurs of liberty -- of the indefinite expansion ...
SUSAN SONTAG Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a s...
SUSAN SONTAG Perversity is the muse of modern literature.
SUSAN SONTAG Guns have metamorphosed into cameras in this earnest comedy, the ecology safari, because nature has ...
SUSAN SONTAG One person's constant is another person's variable.
SUSAN GERHART Ambition if it feeds at all, does so on the ambition of others.
SUSAN SONTAG Slow buds the pink dawn like a rose From out night's gray and cloudy sheath; Softly and still it gro...
SUSAN COOLIDGE In good films, there is always a directness that entirely frees us from the itch to interpret.
SUSAN SONTAG A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains o...
SUSAN SONTAG Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest sub...
SUSAN SONTAG What pornography is really about, ultimately, isn't sex but death.
SUSAN SONTAG What pornographic literature does is precisely to drive a wedge between one's existence as a full hu...
SUSAN SONTAG Jews and homosexuals are the outstanding creative minorities in contemporary urban culture. Creative...
SUSAN SONTAG I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
SUSAN SONTAG Ours is a culture based on excess, on overproduction; the result is a steady loss of sharpness in ou...
SUSAN SONTAG Camp is a vision of the world in terms of style -- but a particular kind of style. It is love of the...
SUSAN SONTAG Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon...
SUSAN ERTZ Industrial societies turn their citizens into image-junkies; it is the most irresistible form of men...
SUSAN SONTAG Disillusion is a natural stage that follows the holding of an illusion.
SUSAN SHAUGHNESSY Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms,...
SUSAN SONTAG Depression is melancholy minus its charms -- the animation, the fits.
SUSAN SONTAG We live under continual threat of two equally fearful, but seemingly opposed, destinies: unremitting...
SUSAN SONTAG A large part of the popularity and persuasiveness of psychology comes from its being a sublimated sp...
SUSAN SONTAG Cancer patients are lied to, not just because the disease is (or is thought to be) a death sentence,...
SUSAN SONTAG AIDS occupies such a large part in our awareness because of what it has been taken to represent. It ...
SUSAN SONTAG AIDS obliges people to think of sex as having, possibly, the direst consequences: suicide. Or murder...
SUSAN SONTAG Always think of your customers as suppliers first. Work closely with them, so they can supply you wi...
SUSAN MARTHALLER I do not think white America is committed to granting equality to the American Negro... this is a pa...
SUSAN SONTAG Though collecting quotations could be considered as merely an ironic mimetism
SUSAN SONTAG The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.
SUSAN SONTAG Tamed as it may be, sexuality remains one of the demonic forces in human consciousness -- pushing us...
SUSAN SONTAG Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone n...
SUSAN SONTAG The best emotions to write out of are anger and fear or dread. . . . The least energizing emotion ...
SUSAN SONTAG Life lives, life dies. Life laughs, life cries. Life gives up and life tries. But life looks differe...
SUSAN CHEEVER What we need is to use what we have.
SUSAN SONTAG Sanity is a cozy lie.
SUSAN SONTAG Enthusiasm is contagious. Be a carrier.
SUSAN RABIN It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades.
SUSAN SONTAG In the final analysis, style is art. And art is nothing more or less than various modes of stylized,...
SUSAN SONTAG The discovery of the good taste of bad taste can be very liberating. The man who insists on high and...
SUSAN SONTAG Taste has no system and no proofs.
SUSAN SONTAG The hard truth is that what may be acceptable in elite culture may not be acceptable in mass culture...
SUSAN SONTAG One set of messages of the society we live in is: Consume. Grow. Do what you want. Amuse yourselves....
SUSAN SONTAG Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoo...
SUSAN ERTZ To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.
SUSAN BLOW Feel the fear and do it anyway.
SUSAN JEFFERS What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women...
SUSAN SONTAG We have two ears and one mouth and we should use them proportionally.
SUSAN CAIN The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there were no speaking o...
SUSAN SONTAG Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
SUSAN ERTZ Progress is the product of human agency. Things get better because we make them better. Things go wr...
SUSAN RICE Painting keeps me occupied in those moments when travel can be aimless and even disorienting. Mainly...
SUSAN MINOT If we are to garner sustained U.S. domestic support for future trade agreements, we have to make sur...
SUSAN RICE Now we're e-mailing and tweeting and texting so much, a phone call comes as a fresh surprise. I ...
SUSAN ORLEAN