Susan Sontag Illness As Metaphor Quotes

#1. Remember brick walls let us show our dedication. They are there to separate us from the people who don't really want to achieve their childhood dreams.

Randy Pausch

#2. Complacency is a slow gas leak, not a bomb blast. Like being robbed by a thief in the night who only steals a penny at a time, we awake to find the days have all gone somewhere. Things

Jon Acuff

#3. Illnesses have always been used as metaphors to enliven charges that a society was corrupt or unjust.

Susan Sontag

#4. Safe, I decided, didn't leave much room for fun.

Justina Chen

#5. It is well-known what an orphan's life is: although he is little and has not yet a man's wisdom, he will follow every trail, try every task.

Alexander Afanasyev

#6. When I was 18, I couldn't wait to move away. I was like: 'If I ever have to come back here, I'll kill myself.' Glasgow seemed like failure and death to me back then, but not any more.

Laura Fraser

#7. My agent told me they were casting for the voice of Gollum. I hadnt read The Lord of the Rings, but I read the script and realized what an amazing role it was. I developed a voice for the audition tape, then met Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh at the auditions and fell in love with them both.

Andy Serkis

#8. I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

Thomas Carlyle

#9. I will frankly confess that I was convinced that God had ordained me to do certain things for the service of my nation, things that perhaps could not be done by anyone else. In whatever I have done and whatever I do in the future, I consider myself as an agent of the will of God.

Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

#10. Silent customers can be deadly. Encourage them to complain.

Ron Kaufman