#ny

When Frank the Pug is singing I Will Survive, the only reason it's funny is that Will is in that shot trying not to get angry. A shot of a dog singing I Will Survive on its own will not get a laugh. ↗

— Barry Sonnenfeld

#dog #frank #funny #get #i

Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#certain #course #critic #entire #entitled

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

The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there were no speaking or writing, there would be no truth about anything. There would only be what is. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#always #anything #known #only #something

Any important disease whose causality is murky, and for which treatment is ineffectual, tends to be awash in significance. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#awash #causality #disease #important #ineffectual

Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#catastrophe #changing #described #heading #history

By the time I'm 40, interplanetary travel will be common. Nobody will want to talk to me at that age, anyway. ↗

— Ace Frehley

#anyway #by the time #common #i #me

A soul that is kind and intends justice discovers more than any sophist. ↗

— Sophocles

#discovers #intends #justice #kind #more

One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession. ↗

— Sophocles

#any #better #friend #how #kindness

Men may know many things by seeing; but no prophet can see before the event, nor what end waits for him. ↗

— Sophocles

#end #event #him #know #many