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There is nothing wrong with standing back and thinking. To paraphrase several sages: 'Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.


Susan Sontag

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To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
SUSAN SONTAG I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES She was indomitable. [About Susan Sontag]
MICHAEL SILVERBLATT Lying is the most simple form of self-defence. -Susan Sontag.
SUSAN SONTAG Flyaway, problem hair is the enemy of feminism, and was probably invented by the Man to crush Susan ...
CAITLIN MORAN And there's nothing wrong with hitting someone when his back is turned.
DAN CASTELLANETA Simultaneously, my two biggest heroes are Susan Sontag and Morticia Addams from 'The Addams Fami...
CAITLIN MORAN I was friends with Susan Sontag the last four years of her life. She had this amazing charisma and s...
MARINA ABRAMOVIC You can't think and hit at the same time
YOGI BERRA She taught you how to be a person who refuses anything but the meaningful. [About Susan Sontag]
MICHAEL SILVERBLATT Nobody is right and nobody is wrong. Only one thing is right, and that is the Truth, but nobody know...
LIN YUTANG You can't think and hit the ball at the same time.
YOGI BERRA I never think when I write. Nobody can do two things at the same time and do them well.
DON MARQUIS I think they're doing as much as they can b/c they're not just going to just stand there while someo...
LUCY JOHNSON I couldn't be Susan Sontag. I'm not very good with abstract thought. I always just take to t...
SALLY MANN Susan Sontag was a great literary artist,"a fearless and original thinker, ever valiant for truth, a...
SALMAN RUSHDIE Nobody walks this earth thinking he's better than I think I am - I think I'm great. At the s...
GARY VAYNERCHUK There's nothing wrong with falling in love and sharing your life with someone.
LILY JAMES There is nothing like right or wrong question or answer. A question may be right for someone and wro...
ANUJ SOMANY Nobody is stronger, nobody is weaker than someone who came back. There is nothing you can do to such...
ELIE WIESEL I think, I am a thought, that can think. The most basic and at the same time the biggest thought pos...
GREAT APE Nothing can be done quickly and prudently at the same time.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS There is nothing wrong with going to bed with someone of your own sex. People should be very free wi...
ELTON JOHN There is nothing wrong with looking at it.
MARK WETMORE With the improved software, several stars are tracked at the same time, and losing the primary one i...
BERNHARD FLECK It's tough. We're just going to have to start over again and take it one step at a time. Go up there...
BRANDON DUBINSKY I had several deputies with me because we were looking for somebody else, and he was kind of in the ...
DEPUTY JOSHUA MOODY We want to sound like everybody and nobody at the same time.
JAMIE VARLEY I think at this point, the only person that's truly going to be able to help Susan is Susan.
JUDY CORNETT There's nothing wrong with cash. It gives you time to think.
ROBERT PRECHTER JR. Nothing is invented and perfected at the same time.
JOHN RAY There's nothing particularly wrong with being more pessimistic than optimistic. Optimism is broa...
DAVID RAKOFF ... that when you're buying books, you're optimistically thinking you're buying the time to read the...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER You might get run over; you might get hit by lightning. I mean, who knows? Each day, there is a chan...
ALEX HONNOLD There's nothing wrong with things taking time.
JAMES DYSON ...there's nothing wrong with occasionally staring out the window and thinking nonsense, as long as ...
LEMONY SNICKET Edgar found a way to get the ball where nobody was standing. We had the lead, lost it, got it back. ...
KEVIN MILLAR People ride bikes thinking there's nothing wrong with them. And, that's not always the case.
ERNEST BERRY I'll find you, don't worry. My body won't be with you all the time, but you'll always have my heart....
P.C. CAST Thinking is hard work. One can't bear burdens and ideas at the same time.
REMY DE GOURMONT I think if you look at exactly where you are, you can't really focus without looking back and fo...
BILL LASWELL I think that might be the best we can play. We moved the puck and limited them to three shots. We di...
DAVE MORSE There is nothing wrong with crying at the end of a long day.
LEMONY SNICKET There's nothing wrong with struggle. Anytime I look back at a difficult phase of my life and see...
ESPERANZA SPALDING She buys "mixed salad greens" for seven dollars a bag, triple-washed with who knows what. And to get...
RUDOLPH DELSON There is nothing more entertaining then leaving someone speechless. Yet, there is nothing sadder tha...
SHANNON L. ALDER Fighting is kind of like choreography. It's not just get in there and punching someone: you have...
EMERAUDE TOUBIA I think making the referee aware of a situation, there is nothing wrong with that.
ABBY WAMBACH I guess there's nothing wrong with being a little bit cocky if you can back it up. And Lance can.
TOMMY EDWARDS A kiss is so magical, that it can mean the whole universe and absolutely nothing all at the same tim...
DANIEL MATAR Alexander's widow came to Galesburg for the movie showing at the Orpheum. I think it opened at sever...
RONALD REAGAN If you think someone is weird, remember that they are probably thinking the same of you.
RODEL NATIVIDAD CASIO For one thing, there is absolutely nothing wrong with being nice. There is nothing uncool about it; ...
JACK MCBRAYER There was several people standing out there.
MAJ. CARLOS RAINES There is nothing wrong with being afraid---but there is nothing more wrong than allowing that to be ...
BOBBY DARIN I don't think there is anything particularly wrong in hitting a woman, though I don't recommend you ...
SEAN CONNERY Nobody stopped thinking about those psychedelic experiences. Once you've been to some of those place...
JERRY GARCIA Nobody stopped thinking about those psychedelic experiences. Once you've been to some of those place...
JERRY GARCIA Healthy" and "diseased," as Susan Sontag points out...are often subjective judgments that society ma...
NAOMI WOLF There is nothing wrong with the harvest
SUNDAY ADELAJA He sighed and bowed deeply. “Sundari. I was standing here thinking nothing could be more beautiful...
COLLEEN HOUCK Everything has it's own time and place, Transformation becomes effortless when we go with the flow.
SHELLI THOMPSON ...colleges being nothing but grooming schools for the middleclass non-identity which usually finds ...
JACK KEROUAC Yeah, definitely, we needed someone to step up and make a play and I didn't get it done. Nobody got ...
AMY SOLAVA Respect has nothing to do with who is right and who is wrong. It has to do with allowing space for s...
JACKIE VIRAMONTEZ The people they were mad at weren't these people. They had nothing to do with anything. They happene...
HENRY REINER There is no law forbidding pets from eating with their owners. But I don't think it's appropriate fo...
GU ZHENHUA The police can't protect consumers. People need to be more aware and educated about identity the...
FRANK ABAGNALE There is nothing wrong with America that the faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her...
DWIGHT DAVID EISENHOWER There will always be competition, especially in showbiz. There's always someone younger and hung...
PREITY ZINTA We can go out there with nothing to lose because nobody really gave us a chance to even win a game i...
CHARLIE BELL Nothing is wrong. It’s merely what you think is right and wrong that has you confused.
J.L. BECK Nobody's all good or bad, and nobody's all light or dark. Every human being has so many diff...
ANNA GUNN With there being several universes in existence why grasp at only one idea nothing is worth not know...
JEFFREY LEE GIBSON JR. There is nothing wrong to be innocent But not novice.Being novice may deprive you dong right thing a...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA If there is nothing wrong with me, maybe there's something wrong with the universe.
DR. BEVERLY CRUSHER Clear thinking at the wrong moment can stifle creativity.
KARL LAGERFELD I learned from Harriet that someone can be stone cold and at the same time act like they care.
CHARLES SOECHTING I thought it was a clean hit. But there are no regrets and I make no apologies. I think it's a tough...
BRIAN RUSSELL We were surprised because there was no price tender and at the time we were assured we had done noth...
JAMES LOGAN He's the type of guy that isn't afraid of anyone. He's a bulldog, and I really like that and respect...
BRANDON INGE It is never too late to strengthen the foundation of faith. There is always time. With faith in the ...
HENRY B. EYRING Boris was a rebounding machine. I think they got cold from the floor and we kind of hit our stride a...
STEVE NASH We have a strong and solid squad with gifted players. There is no need to worry. We can chase three ...
SIDNEY GOVOU We've got two wonderful trainers. They're football people too. If they don't think a kid is really h...
JACK TURNER There is nothing wrong. We just need more time to prepare for the mission.
HUANG CHUNPING You don't have to cling to nothing and nobody actually. Life has oceans of pain and islands of happi...
MARIANA FULGER At that time, Robert comes back in, and Robert is standing in front of me, and he wants his money.
EDWARD KARABACK It would seem that man was born a slave, and that slavery is his natural condition. At the same time...
SIMONE WEIL Attack your lashes with the wand. I think there's nothing wrong with doing that.
POPPY DELEVINGNE I thought how that was wrong and terrible and beautiful all at the same time.
CAROL RIFKA BRUNT I go back to my room and lie under the covers, trying not to think of Gale and thinking of nothing e...
SUZANNE COLLINS All the time I think I can never love you more than I already do. And then you do something or say s...
AIDAN CHAMBERS There are a lot of people who can do it on the guitar and sing at the same time, but I think what is...
GRAHAM COXON I think it's going to get back to Sam struggling to raise a child and making ends meet at the same t...
LINDA CARDELLINI Photographs objectify: they turn an event or a person into something that can be possessed.
SUSAN SONTAG Is there an antidote to the perennial seductiveness of war? And is this a question a woman is more l...
SUSAN SONTAG Narratives can make us understand. Photographs do something else: they haunt us.
SUSAN SONTAG All memory is individual, unreproducible - it dies with each person. What is called collective memor...
SUSAN SONTAG It is intolerable to have one's sufferings twinned with anybody else's.
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SUSAN SONTAG The taste for worst-case scenarios reflects the need to master fear of what is felt to be uncontroll...
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SUSAN SONTAG The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
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SUSAN SONTAG It hurts to love. It's like giving yourself to be flayed and knowing that at any moment the other pe...
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.
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