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I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my dreams


Susan Sontag

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I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my dreams.
SUSAN SONTAG The Only Way Out Is To DIE!!!!
BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE I must interpret the life around me as I interpret the life that is my own. My life is full of meani...
ALBERT SCHWEITZER i want to sleep for my whole life, because in my dreams, you are everywhere around me.
PRASOON DWIVEDI My life and my dreams are not in anyone else's hands but mine!...
PHILIP T. M. A girl likes to be crossed a little in love now and then.
It is something to think of
JANE AUSTEN teacher:"I'm teacher, not because i want to teach children something. I am teacher just because I li...
MY TEACHER My dreams have become puny with the reality my life has become.
IMELDA MARCOS I only have one wish in life... For all my dreams to come true.
ANONYMOUS wo chhod dete hain jb hm tnha hote hain wo paas hote hain jb mere paas hazaro hopte hain.
SONYY TYAGI One of my dreams in life is to do fund-raising for the youth.
PICABO STREET I tend to resist invitations to interpret my own fiction.
J. M. COETZEE In my wildest dreams, I could not have imagined a sweeter life.
HUGH HEFNER I was extremely uncomfortable when my parents asked me to interpret for them, ... We have got to und...
LELAND YEE My dream life is just to go back to my job full-time. And be with my family. You know, regular dream...
CARLA BRUNI My dreams in the dark inspire my life in the light.
SALVATORE IADICICCO As an artist, I want to interpret my feelings - not run across the street and ask what my mother thi...
RALPH BAKSHI When I dream go into a parallel universe: dreaming of my past memories that my subconscious was hold...
MARIAH REBECCA ARGUELLO In my dreams I am not crippled. In my dreams, I dance.
LOUISE BROOKS I've made this decision not to talk to the press about anything that's gone on in my life, but just ...
BIJOU PHILLIPS I don't like dreams or reality. I like when dreams become reality because that is my life.
JEAN PAUL GAULTIER But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly becaus...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS But I, being poor, have only my dreams. I have spread my dreams under your feet; tread softly, becau...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread sof...
W.B. YEATS Films are dreams. Many, many critics say to me that my films are not good because they are too unbel...
DARIO ARGENTO The untented Kosmos my abode,
I pass, a wilful stranger:
My mistress still the open road R.L.S. Then don't you dare tell me my dreams are insane! Because my dreams are what I live for!
ROBERT THIER I've made this decision not to talk to the press about anything that's gone on in my life, b...
BIJOU PHILLIPS My father always told me not to dream, but my dreams created my path to success.
KISHAN S CHAUHAN I have little or no concern at how people interpret my writing, my only concern is to write it.
ROBERT BLACK No lower can a man descend than to interpret his dreams into gold and silver
KAHLIL GIBRAN Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.
JACK LONDON " My entrance maybe forgotten, but it will be my exit that will leave an indelible impression upon e...
PAULL PINETTE I saw better life to his fastball, much better life. I can't sit here and tell you what the velocity...
JIM TRACY I want to do it on my own. I want to fulfill my dreams and help support my son's (dreams).
CYNTHIA MCCOY Simultaneously, my two biggest heroes are Susan Sontag and Morticia Addams from 'The Addams Fami...
CAITLIN MORAN I worked on my voice for Sweet Dreams, but only to match my speaking voice to Patsy's actual sin...
JESSICA LANGE I went looking for my dreams outside of myself and discovered, it's not what the world holds for you...
L.M. MONTGOMERY I've succeeded beyond my wildest dreams - financially and the amount of fun I have in my life.
PHIL HARTMAN I've had a life where things have worked out for me beyond my wildest dreams, and my brother'...
BILL PAXTON As a kid, this is what I wanted my life to be. Not in my wildest dreams did I ever dare to dream tha...
SMOKEY ROBINSON From my perspective, music allows me to escape from the world of what is happening right in front of...
DANIELLE DE NIESE I've seen my own death in dreams like this and it's helped me appreciate life more. I've also seen m...
MARILYN MANSON It's not my job to dream your dreams. It's my job to make your dreams become a reality.
BLANCHE LINCOLN Dropbox is my life.
DREW HOUSTON I risked my life.
LECH WALESA I'm the most Failure Model of My parents activities
SATHESH KUMAR M I believe in dreams.
I believe infinite possibilities for the fulfillment of my dreams.
LAILAH GIFTYAKITA I have had dreams and I have had nightmares, but I have conquered my nightmares because of my dreams...
JONAS SALK I have had dreams and I have had nightmares, but I have conquered my nightmares because of my dream...
JONAS SALK I have had dreams and I have had nightmares, but I have conquered my nightmares because of my dreams
JONAS SALK Music is my life.
ROBERT ILER I don't want to be on the road all my life.
AARON NEVILLE Wasn't that the definition of home? Not where you are from, but where you are wanted
ABRAHAM VERGHESE I don't need an ipod filled with romantic songs, hearing your voice is the most valuable thing that ...
CRISTINA OJEDA I got my first camera when I was 21 - my boyfriend gave it to me for my birthday - but at that point...
CARRIE MAE WEEMS As I live and am a man, this is an unexaggerated tale -- my dreams become the substances of my life.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE As I live and am a man, this is an unexaggerated tale - my dreams become the substances of my life.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE It is a wonderful opportunity for me to share my life, my hopes and my dreams. This year will be my ...
DONNA JONES I dream, I test my dreams against my beliefs, I dare to take risks, and I execute my vision to make ...
WALT DISNEY My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed - my dea...
MARY SHELLEY My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed - my dea...
My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed - my dea...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY I love to live in dreams, I love to love in dreams, it is really annoying for me when someone try to...
MEHTAB ALAM KHAN abundant feeling of your presence in front of Allah is enjoy full solitude state where you are in bo...
M.I.SHAIKH MY SELF It's raining spiders, seriously. Maybe that's a bad sign.
MY MORNING JACKET At Dawn/Tennessee Fire Demos
MY MORNING JACKET You go up there and it's just this amazing place on top of a mountain,
MY MORNING JACKET You know, one of my biggest dreams in life is to play a Disney princess.
GINNIFER GOODWIN All my life I've been rowing against the tide. What can I do? It seems I was born that way.
JOSE MUJICA I can never decide whether my dreams are the result of my thoughts, or my thoughts the result of my ...
D.H. LAWRENCE I can never decide whether my dreams are the result of my thoughts, or my thoughts the result of my ...
D. H. LAWRENCE In my long life I have found peace, joy, and happiness beyond my fondest hopes and dreams. One of th...
JAMES E. FAUST Even the largest of my dreams and ambitions, I realize with increasing dismay, were puny, measly, co...
RICK BASS 'Brooklyn's Finest,' this is the kind of movie that's why I want to be an actor, to ...
ETHAN HAWKE It's not my job to dream your dreams. It's my job to make your dreams become a reality.
BLANCHE LINCOLN My life and career is my own adventure.
DARIO ARGENTO I've dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after.
EMILY BRONTE Music is my life. It is sacred.
JIMMY CHAMBERLIN There's been nothing but discipline, discipline, discipline all my life.
CELINE DION All my life, people have been underestimating me.
HUGH CAREY At the end of my trial, I was rather hoping the judge would send me to Australia for the rest of my ...
JEFFREY ARCHER I still have dreams of being beaten up. I'm not the same person, and I never will be. He has changed...
VALERIE AERNI Perhaps the most liberating moment in my life was when I realized that my self-loathing was not a pr...
VIRONIKA TUGALEVA Rather than smoke up the weed, I'll do a good deed, I have it written in my creed, and past on my dr...
NICK OHARA Unless you allow yourself to seek your inner depths; the surfacial affairs of life shall always engr...
DINESH KUMAR Economic Development is more than just a function of Real Estate. It is more about job creation than...
CHRIS PETRELLA - MY WAR FOR JOBS Like my mother, I was always saying, 'I'll fix my life one day.' It became clear when I ...
LIZ MURRAY I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was wrong with my life. In the end, of cours...
JON KRAKAUER Romans 8: 28: And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have ...
SHELLEY LUBBEN I love you crookedly because my heart's been unhinged from birth. The doctors gave me strict instru...
MATHIAS MALZIEU I have spread my dreams under your feet; tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS She was indomitable. [About Susan Sontag]
MICHAEL SILVERBLATT Freedom carries sacrifice,
3 DOORS DOWN I’m so thankful to you, for coming to my rescue; when I saw you I knew, you’d make my dreams com...
SCOTTIE SOMERS My new life goes beyond my dreams because my dream was Formula One and I achieved it. I'm a driv...
MARIA DE VILLOTA I'd wasted so much of my life. So many of my days, and all of my promise, all of my dreams, lost to ...
ALEXIS HALL I work so hard for profits because my dreams are expensive.
AMIT KALANTRI I miss my kids, and they miss me. It's very difficult, but I have to do it for my country and fu...
MARY KOM I have dreams, many dreams. Dreams of man doing evil things; hurting women and killing children for ...
ENRIQUE VEGA

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SUSAN SONTAG One feature of the usual script for plague: the disease invariably comes from somewhere else. The na...
SUSAN SONTAG The basic unit for contemporary art is not the idea, but the analysis of and extension of sensations...
SUSAN SONTAG [Perhaps this is a good thing. And potentially dangerous for a novelist. The dangers are obvious. A ...
SUSAN SONTAG Guns have metamorphosed into cameras in this earnest comedy, the ecology safari, because nature has ...
SUSAN SONTAG The taste for quotations (and for the juxtaposition of incongruous quotations) is a Surrealist taste...
SUSAN SONTAG Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
SUSAN SONTAG Ours is a culture based on excess, on overproduction; the result is a steady loss of sharpness in ou...
SUSAN SONTAG What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women...
SUSAN SONTAG Perversity is the muse of modern literature
SUSAN SONTAG What pornographic literature does is precisely to drive a wedge between one's existence as a sexual ...
SUSAN SONTAG It's a pleasure to share one's memories. Everything remembered is dear, endearing, touching, preciou...
SUSAN SONTAG My idea of a writer: someone interested in 'everything,'
SUSAN SONTAG I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them
SUSAN SONTAG The quality of American life is an insult to the possibilities of human growth. . . the pollution of...
SUSAN SONTAG Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
SUSAN SONTAG A great private collection is a material concentrate that continually stimulates, that overexcites. ...
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