#lt

It felt scary because there was no auditioning, no rehearsing. ↗

— Barry Sonnenfeld

#because #felt #rehearsing #scary

To take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#freezing #melt #moment #mortality #mutability

For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#affront #anything #cannot #consolations #controlled

Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#guilt #inexorable #innocence #logic #suggest

If we are to keep our democracy, there must be one commandment: "Thou shalt not ration justice." ↗

— Sophocles

#democracy #justice #keep #must #our

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

#bad #interesting #less #mysterious #ones

There is no sense in crying over spilt milk. Why bewail what is done and cannot be recalled? ↗

— Sophocles

#cannot #crying #done #milk #over

I'm surprised and disappointed in American culture. ↗

— Tabitha Soren

#american culture #culture #disappointed #i #surprised

At MTV, although the audience is smaller, I found it more interesting to deliver news to a specific group of people, because my story then did not have to try to be all things to all people. ↗

— Tabitha Soren

#although #audience #because #deliver #did

We have convinced over one billion members of the Islamic faith that we are prejudiced against their religion, that we would deny them freedom of religion, that we want suppress their culture and invade their governments. ↗

— Theodore C. Sorensen

#billion #convinced #culture #deny #faith