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It is not altogether wrong to say that there is no such thing as a bad photograph -- only less interesting, less relevant, less mysterious ones.


Susan Sontag

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SUSAN SONTAG As a rule, the more bizarre a thing is, the less mysterious it proves to be.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Less is more.
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE In Scotland, there is no such thing as bad weather - only the wrong clothes.
BILLY CONNELLY There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one si...
GEORGE ORWELL In Scotland, there is no such thing as bad weather - only the wrong clothes.

BILLY CONNELLY A distraction isn't necessarily bad, it just means what you're doing is less interesting
XANDERL Less is more! I don't wear makeup if I don't have to.
JENNIFER NETTLES Last year, I made a refrigerator in my basement. And I needed to because I needed to figure how - yo...
ALTON BROWN As one grows weaker one is less susceptible to suffering. There is less hurt because there is less t...
JACK LONDON I hate to hear 'Less is more.' It's a crock of crap.
R. LEE ERMEY What do you mean less than nothing? I don't think there is any such thing as less than nothing. Noth...
E.B. WHITE 'There are no easy pickings.' That would be a more accurate, less dramatic statement than &#...
PAUL SAMUELSON There is a steady migration of recruitment dollars going online, ... Employment figures are trading ...
MARK MAHANEY With less credit available, less growth is possible. So we are looking at a bad situation here that ...
CARL B. WEINBERG …even in worst from worst and bad things, in opposite, makes something good. There is no absolute....
VICDO Less is more, with creativity, and without creativity, less is less.
RONALD ANTON The more you know, the less you need.
YVON CHOUINARD There is no such thing as bad weather, only inappropriate clothing
RANULPH FIENNES Today is going to be a...less bad day. I can feel it. Sometimes I wake up and know everything is goi...
ALLY MCBEAL The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER As a rule, the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, ...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE I guess I've learned that there's really no such thing as a bad label, there is only a bad contract.
PETER STEELE There is no such thing as justice, only good and bad lawyers.
WILLIAM J DAGER There is such a thing as food and such a thing as poison. But the damage done by those who pass off ...
PAUL GOODMAN A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.
DIANE ARBUS The only principle which will make you more content, less bitter is to live a life that has "Less ex...
ABHYSHEQ SHUKLA There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are interesting monologues, that is...
REBECCA WEST There is no destiny – free will more or less free! More or less in crowded.
MARIANA FULGER As a rule, said Holmes, the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be. It is your ...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE As a rule, said Holmes, the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be. It is your ...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE SR. Less is only more where more is no good.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT But then, even with sex, I'm more in the school of less is more in movies.
AARON ECKHART Look for chances to take the less-traveled roads. There are no wrong turns.
SUSAN MAGSAMEN Are you a hero, actually?”
“Um, no. Not as such. Not at all, really. Even less than that, i...
TERRY PRATCHETT A disability that is not apparent in the person’s appearance is no less intrusive, no less painful...
SAHAR ABDULAZIZ Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.
JOHANN VON GOETHE The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but ...
VACLAV HAVEL The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life but t...
VACLAV HAVEL Dealers have to disclose things that private individuals don't. With individuals, there is less of a...
BILL WOLTERS Sometimes there is no happy choice, Sam, only one less grievous than the others.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN There are not that many parts for actors who are not white - even less substantive ones.
CASSANDRA CLARE But such occasions of excellence became less and less frequent. As her technique became sounder, [he...
THORNTON WILDER There is no such thing as equality for some. Equality must be for all. That is what freedom is. That...
DAVID LEVITHAN There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.
JOHN RUSKIN No evil is without its compensation. The less money, the less trouble; the less favor, the less envy...
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) No evil is without its compensation. The less money, the less trouble; the less favor, the less envy...
SENECA Food- the only thing that the fortunate ones put aside to satisfy their fancy dietary plans and work...
ADHISH MAZUMDER It takes less time to do a thing right than to explain why you did it wrong.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW I wondered a little why God was such a useless thing. It seemed a waste of time to have him. After t...
FRANCES FARMER The program is far less appealing and less effective if only a handful of airports offer it.
WENDY ABRAMS Investors should remember that if we do see companies start hitting estimates and not beating them, ...
JOSEPH ABBOTT There is no such a thing as a good world and a bad world. There is only one world, and it is up to u...
JONATHAN CHEN Ethologists are often accused of drawing false analogies between animal and human behaviour. However...
KONRAD LORENZ The Family is the Country of the heart. There is an angel in the Family who, by the mysterious influ...
GIUSEPPE MAZZINI there's no release, just gurus and self- appointed gods and hucksters. the more people say, the less...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Taking the road less travelled is easier; there is less congestion.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO Fear less; hope more. Eat less; chew more. Talk less; say more. Hate less; love more.
ABIGAIL BUREN Fear less; hope more. Eat less; chew more. Talk less; say more. Hate less; love more.
ABIGAIL VAN BUREN Love is not blind -- it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
RABBI J. GORDON Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
JULINS GORDON Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
RABBI JULIUS GORDON The good thing about getting older is that, as you become less attractive, so you have less desire t...
JULIAN CLARY Less is more, unless you're Al Gore.
UNKNOWN I continue to be drawn to clarity and simplicity. 'Less is more' remains my mantra.
STEPHANE ROLLAND True humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less.
RICK WARREN It takes less time to do a thing right than it does to explain why you did it wrong.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Lying is the most simple form of self-defence. -Susan Sontag.
SUSAN SONTAG They do say now in cycling that there's no such thing as bad weather - it's bad clothing.
BRADLEY WIGGINS A misadventure is an act that has a safer, less self-detrimental, less interesting alternative. But ...
S.A. TAWKS No author has created with less emphasis such pathetic characters as Chekhov has.
VLADIMIR NABOKOV We have more and more ways to communicate, as Thoreau noted, but less and less to say.
PICO IYER Sometimes it's the lead, but there are not always leads out there, so then it's an interesti...
HOLLY HUNTER Love is not blind - It sees more and not less, but because it sees more it is willing to see less.
WILL MOSS Basically, in 'American Pie,' things are heading in the wrong direction. It is becoming less...
DON MCLEAN She was indomitable. [About Susan Sontag]
MICHAEL SILVERBLATT Pray to God that your attachment to such transitory things as wealth, name, and creature comforts ma...
RAMAKRISHNA A portrait is not a likeness. The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is n...
RICHARD AVEDON Love is not blind, it sees more not less; But because it sees more it chooses to see less.
UNKNOWN Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters.
JEFFREY FRY It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or l...
VLADIMIR LENIN It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or l...
LENIN, VLADIMIR The more technique you have, the less you have to worry about it. The more technique there is, the l...
PABLO PICASSO [There is an odd grammar in that sentence, which seems wrong, but is actually precise.] Close siblin...
KATE ADIE It will only make people more distrustful of government. What we need is more openness, not less. Th...
JAY HECK A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.
IRIS MURDOCH It is fortunate to be of high birth, but it is no less so to be of such character that people do not...
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE Less than half of our households have a computer. Only a third of those log on. So most people see t...
KAREN COYLE Is Snowden a good man or a bad man? I have no clue and even less interest.
JOHN MCAFEE Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less.
RICK WARREN With creativity; less is more. Without creativity; less is less.
RONALD ANTON Some say the world has too many problems,capital no,for it only has too many less thinkers.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix.
DEYTH BANGER Everything you've learned in school as obvious becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study t...
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER Everything you've learned in school as "obvious" becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study...
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER They should be required to be in less events; there should be less events for the women. It seems it...
JOHN MCENROE You knew how humiliating that is as an experience for celebrities to be less of a celebrity. There&#...
CARRIE FISHER There is no such thing as a bad beer. It's that some taste better than others.
BILLY CARTER

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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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