A dream is the bearer of a new possibility, the enlarged horizon, the great hope.
HOWARD THURMAN Tall, sandy blonde, with sort of blue eyes, skinny in places, fat in others. An average gal.
UMA THURMAN When life gives you lemons. . . You might as well shove 'em where the sun don't shine, because you s...
ROB THURMAN Every dreamer knows that it is entirely possible to be homesick for a place you've never been to, pe...
JUDITH THURMAN Community cannot long feed on itself, it can only flourish with the coming of others from beyond: th...
HOWARD THURMAN Community cannot for long feed on itself; it can only flourish with the coming of others from beyond...
HOWARD THURMAN Commitment means that it is possible for a man to yield the nerve center of his consent to a purpo...
HOWARD THURMAN Don
HOWARD THURMAN Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the worl...
HOWARD THURMAN I'm lucky to have been raised in the most beautiful place - Amherst, Massachusetts, state of my ...
UMA THURMAN So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of...
UMA THURMAN I spent the first fourteen years of my life convinced that my looks were hideous. Adolescence is pai...
UMA THURMAN Twilight - a time of pause when nature changes her guard. All living things would fade and die from ...
HOWARD THURMAN My washing machine overwhelms me with its options and its sophistication.
UMA THURMAN It is better to have a relationship with someone who cheats on you than with someone who does not fl...
UMA THURMAN I would love to do something like Austin Powers to show off my comic timing.
UMA THURMAN Follow the grain in your own wood.
HOWARD THURMAN Ask not what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive... then go do it. Because what the world...
HOWARD THURMAN Desperation is the perfume of the young actor. It's so satisfying to have gotten rid of it. If you k...
UMA THURMAN There is something in every one of you that waits and listens for the sound of the genuine in yourse...
HOWARD THURMAN [At least he had his most useful accessory at his beck and call.] The umbrella can be a weapon, ... ...
UMA THURMAN I had to go to a mirror and look at it. I couldn't picture myself in my own head. I had no image...
UMA THURMAN Before I had my child, I thought I knew all the boundaries of myself, that I understood the limits o...
UMA THURMAN Computer systems are better now, and people have a better understanding (of the plans).
BETTY THURMAN One lady told me her son was a real computer whiz, and it took him 2½ hours to pick a plan for her ...
BETTY THURMAN Twilight: A time of pause when nature changes her guard. All living things would fade and die from t...
HOWARD THURMAN I was not particularly bright, I wasn't very athletic, I was a little too tall, odd, funny looking, ...
UMA THURMAN Most films these days are men's stories. Women are for add-on romance. That's very hard.
UMA THURMAN I'm so flattered and touched by your comments.
UMA THURMAN worst play ever written.
UMA THURMAN There's an active movement to turn it into a badge of honor,
UMA THURMAN I've been so cool for so long, the split was excruciating.
UMA THURMAN Everyone constantly taunts you that rebound relationships aren't a good idea and that they don't wor...
UMA THURMAN Somebody stop me from beeping. Or do you want to see what I'll do next?
UMA THURMAN Modeling is basically 'Buy more stuff! Don't you want some more stuff? It will make you look ten yea...
UMA THURMAN I grew up in a mostly Buddhist environment.
UMA THURMAN Fun wouldn't be the right word... It was the most difficult, challenging, physical, extraordinary st...
UMA THURMAN I was an escapee of childhood. I always wanted to grow up.
UMA THURMAN During times of war, hatred becomes quite respectable even though it has to masquerade often under t...
HOWARD THURMAN Buddhism has had a major effect on who I am and how I think about the world. What I have learned is ...
UMA THURMAN I had to go to a mirror and look at it. I couldn't picture myself in my own head. I had no image bey...
UMA THURMAN During times of war, hatred becomes quite respectable, even though it has to masquerade often under ...
HOWARD THURMAN You're the little spoon, aren't you?
ROB THURMAN Look at the ex-demon with his big boy pants on now.
ROB THURMAN The guy had guts—I had to give him that. Later on I was hoping for a first-hand look at them.
ROB THURMAN At the core of life is a hard purposefulness, a determination to live.
HOWARD THURMAN Commitment means that it is possible for a man to yield the nerve centre of his consent to a purpose...
HOWARD THURMAN Do I have lipstick on my teeth?
UMA THURMAN I'm very happy at home. I love to just hang out with my daughter, I love to work in my garden. I'm n...
UMA THURMAN Even, today, when people tell me I'm beautiful, I do not believe a word of it.
UMA THURMAN Before I had my child, I thought I knew all the boundaries of myself, that I understood the limits o...
UMA THURMAN The entire flight team is ecstatic about the degree of accuracy that we believe we have achieved. It...
SAM THURMAN Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world...
HOWARD THURMAN He who fears is literally delivered to destruction.
HOWARD THURMAN Fun wouldn't be the right word... it was the most difficult, challenging, physical, extraordinar...
UMA THURMAN One lady told me her son was a real computer whiz, and it took him 2½ hours to pick a plan for her ...
BETTY THURMAN Desperation is the perfume of the young actor. It's so satisfying to have gotten rid of it. If y...
UMA THURMAN We have kept memorabilia from our days in military service. When we realized that Marge was eligible...
BUD THURMAN Back then, my air fare on Eastern Airlines to fly from Florida to where Marge was stationed in New Y...
BUD THURMAN She actually deserves a medal for taking care of me all these years. But these are military citation...
BUD THURMAN The years, the months, the days, and the hours have flown by my open window. Here and there an incid...
HOWARD THURMAN We never left a set until we'd trashed it.
UMA THURMAN You can't choose, who you are. No matter how you struggle, some things will never change. And maybe ...
ROB THURMAN You always remember the words that come back to bite you in the ass, no matter how much you'd like t...
ROB THURMAN Pick up your clothes. I am not your maid. How do I know this? A maid cannot kill you with a tube soc...
ROB THURMAN Hope for the best; prepare for the worst.
ROB THURMAN I have people in my life, of course. Some write; some don't. Some read; some don't. Some stare vacan...
ROB THURMAN Their work is timeless. It transcends the bubblegum pap that passes for music now. A Beatles song is...
ROB THURMAN The relationship between my brain and my mouth tended to be casual at best.
ROB THURMAN She’d eat you alive.” “She would, would she?” Niko said dryly. “Seriously, Nik, she’s da...
ROB THURMAN Me? I was lucky to get a grunt from the local pizza delivery girl. And I had nice eyes too, not to m...
ROB THURMAN And who died and made you boss?” But I knew a lost cause when I saw it and was already pulling my ...
ROB THURMAN Get a grip, change your shorts, and move on to the task at hand.
ROB THURMAN But hoping you never saw someone again is a damn sight different from wishing them dead.
ROB THURMAN Nice guy. Salt of the earth. The stick up his ass is just a bonus.” “Let us not make light of th...
ROB THURMAN Alone: it was no way to live and it was no way to die.
ROB THURMAN Anyone with less intestinal fortitude, inhuman or not, would've been curled up on the floor sucking ...
ROB THURMAN But you know what they say. . . . Size isn’t everything. Of course the people that say that are di...
ROB THURMAN Luckily enough, we do have an entire bottle of wheatgrass juice.” “Your sense of humor isn’t a...
ROB THURMAN It’s an unfortunate fact of life,” Niko said with grimly amused resignation. “Where there are ...
ROB THURMAN Grumbling incoherently, I fished in my jacket pocket for sunglasses. “Fear not, night dweller,” ...
ROB THURMAN I didn’t comment on the large knife he slid under the pillow. We all have our security blankets in...
ROB THURMAN The front door had been secure at some point in time, I suppose, but now it usually hung ajar by a f...
ROB THURMAN There are monsters among us. There always have been and there always will be. I’ve known that ever...
ROB THURMAN It is difficult to threaten someone who doesn’t have the necessary attention span to register fear...
ROB THURMAN There are a lot of truths in this world. When it rains it pours. It's always darkest before the dawn...
ROB THURMAN Every inner touch, every one of its fingerprints on my brain, burned like acid. It shredded the wall...
ROB THURMAN And who died and made you boss?" But I knew a lost cause when I saw it and was already pulling my ha...
ROB THURMAN Most kids don't believe in fairy tales very long. Once they hit six or seven they put away "Cinderel...
ROB THURMAN Snap judgments? I'd gotten over those about the time I was toilet trained. Swore off diapers and fai...
ROB THURMAN At least that's what his note said, along with a scathing reminder that dishes didn't wash themselve...
ROB THURMAN What're you still doing up? You know all good little ninjas should be in bed, visions of homicidal s...
ROB THURMAN Most kids don't believe in fairy tales very long. Once they hit six or seven they put away "Cinderel...
ROB THURMAN We all have our security blankets in this world. Some are just sharper than others.
ROB THURMAN From his unapologetic attitude to his secret, backroom dealings, Dick Cheney doesn't realize that Am...
KAREN THURMAN Our ports, the most vulnerable in the country because they've not been thought about as national sec...
KAREN THURMAN The Republicans have shown us that they're corrupt. More importantly, lately, they've shown us how i...
KAREN THURMAN I think the Republicans have shown us that they're corrupt, more important lately, they've show us h...
KAREN THURMAN The GOP culture of corruption that has poisoned the atmosphere of Capitol Hill is being cultivated h...
KAREN THURMAN This is a day that I'm sure is very hurtful to the senator. We would welcome the senator to come joi...
KAREN THURMAN It's a contest to see who can write the bawdiest limerick.
KAREN THURMAN It's counter to what the legislature is trying to do, in moving research forward in an area that giv...
KAREN THURMAN All you have to do is start talking about it in terms of what is happening to people in their pocket...
KAREN THURMAN When you have an election like you did Tuesday, people will start recognizing that there is a change...
KAREN THURMAN a day of art at the theater.
JUDITH THURMAN This is the river of the great 19th-century landscapists; of Cole, Cropsey and Church, and at the en...
JUDITH THURMAN Here was a monument, in fieldstone, to the art of family life.
JUDITH THURMAN I guess it's his style of game. Didn't he get two of them? I think it's selfish and childish of him....
ODELL THURMAN The term up has no meaning apart from the word down. The term fast has no meaning apart from the ter...
THURMAN W. ARNOLD Being a Negro writer these days is a racket and I'm going to make the most of it while it lasts. Abo...
WALLACE HENRY THURMAN Let us keep in mind that we do not have to go to the scriptures inorder to approach God. We do not h...
THURMAN L. FAISON Imagine a culture in which everything is geared toward helping all individuals become the best human...
ROBERT A.F. THURMAN 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."

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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