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If the individual is to be happy in the contemporary order, he must be open-minded with respect to new values and new arrangements. Votes: 5
Thomas Cochrane
One way or another, we all have to find what best fosters the flowering of our humanity in this contemporary life, and dedicate ourselves to that. Votes: 5
But these days, I get a lot more attention and airplay from the Adult Contemporary and country radio stations, and I feel comfortable saying I'm a part of that. Votes: 5
Juice Newton
What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it. Votes: 5
Quite a lot of our contemporary culture is actually shot through with a resentment of limits and the passage of time, anger at what we can't do, fear or even disgust at growing old. Votes: 5
Contemporary art hates you. Votes: 3
Many contemporary authors drink more than they write. Votes: 3
Maxim Gorky
Contemporary culture is not very good on responsibility. Votes: 3
Obviously I always wanted to do a contemporary piece. Votes: 3
Contemporary art will help me to modernise our society. Votes: 3
Victor Pinchuk
Contemporary thinkers would say that man is continuously transcending himself. Votes: 3
Contemporary Christian church would normally think that things are impossible Votes: 3
Sunday Adelaja
Do I think all contemporary Christian music is good? No. Votes: 3
Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law. Votes: 3
Abbie Hoffman
Contemporary social democracy is what I believe is the right concept. Votes: 3
Contemporary literature in the West has shown some signs of ethical change. Votes: 3
Lafcadio Hearn
Contemporary art is an epoch of false money allied with false culture. Votes: 3
Alexander Stoddart
Contemporary American psychiatrist It is a happy talent to know how to play. Votes: 3
Contemporary bands often will do tour-only releases pressed and sold only in Australia. Crikey! Votes: 3
Because of the structure of the contemporary American party system, every president is polarizing. Votes: 3
Larry Sabato
Contemporary society has become dry, not for lack of wonders but for lack of wonder. Votes: 3
Contemporary man has rationalized the myths, but he has not been able to destroy them. Votes: 3
I'm not doing contemporary songs unless something comes along that really knocks my socks off. Votes: 3
Contemporary Democrats are people who can't stand the idea that someone, somewhere is experiencing good news. Votes: 3
I am a classical music lover - not necessarily the contemporary stuff, but the old stuff. Votes: 3
Eberhard Weber
The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work. Votes: 3
Contemporary societies have lost the sense of the feast but have kept the obscure drive for it. Votes: 3
Contemporary audiences, other than those making a deliberate historical leap, would find, say, the 1931 'Dracula' impossibly slow. Votes: 3
Andrew Tudor
Contemporary science is based on the philosophy of materialism, which claims that all reality is material or physical. Votes: 3
The engine of ancient society was religion but the engine of contemporary society, as I see it, is advertising. Votes: 3
Kit Williams
Contemporary art challenges us.. it broadens our horizons. It asks us to think beyond the limits of conventional wisdom. Votes: 3
Eli Broad
History, when they do it, is ancient history, and they sensationalize even that. Contemporary history is virtually ignored on television. Votes: 3
[Contemporary writer] could be a kind of [Samuel] Beckett who would not be felt to be totally committed to despair. Votes: 3
Contemporary fiction is the hardest for me because I am not really in the popular culture - I don't watch TV. Votes: 3
Gail Carson Levine
Contemporary criticism only represents the amount of ignorance genius has to contend with. . . . Time will reverse the judgement of the vulgar. Votes: 3
I listen to both oldies and contemporary stations. I enjoy listening to current stuff because there's an energy to it that's inspiring. Votes: 3
Contemporary philosophers, even the rationalistic minded ones, have on the whole agreed that no one has intelligibly banished the mystery of fact. Votes: 3
One cannot set out to make a work that's spiritual. What is a contemporary iconography for the spiritual? Is it some fuzzy space? Votes: 3
The loss of national identity is the greatest defeat a nation can know, and it is inevitable under the contemporary form of colonization. Votes: 3
Slobodan Milosevic
Contemporary industrial society is now characterised more than ever by the need for stupefying work where it is no longer a real necessity. Votes: 3
We are concerned with the relationship between art and life. Contemporary art is only intelligible in terms of its relationship to our life. Votes: 3
Contemporary art photography, or, more specifically, what I would term mainstream art photography, represents for the most part the mining of an exhausted lode. Votes: 3
Abigail Solomon-Godeau
Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy of one. Votes: 3
Contemporary ramen is totally different than what most Americans think ramen should be. Ramen is not one thing; there are many, many different types. Votes: 3
Marks of Identity is, among other things, the expression of the process of alienation in a contemporary intellectual with respect to his own country. Votes: 3
In the U.K., we have always been an open, trading nation, enriched by our global links. Contemporary patterns of migration extend this tradition. Votes: 3
David Blunkett
Holding on to some of your uniqueness is the trick instead of surrendering it at the Academy of Contemporary We're Gonna Make You a Star. Votes: 3
I like to do theater and hopefully be effective. Most actors, at least contemporary actors of my generation, can't do it. They don't have the chops. Votes: 3
Contemporary American children, if they are old enough to grasp the concept of Santa Claus by Thanksgiving, are able to see through it by December 15th. Votes: 3
Roy Blount, Jr.
Contemporary movies just drive me crazy. The violence and the sentimentality and the spiritual materialism and Theism and the incredible indulgence in ignorance is so claustrophobic. Votes: 3
Contemporary Britain seems an endlessly fascinating place to me - but if I knew a little bit more about other places, and other times, maybe it wouldn't. Votes: 3
the backlash convinced the public that women's 'liberation' was the true contemporary American scourge - the source of an endless laundry list of personal, social, and economic problems. Votes: 3
Susan Faludi
We have created indoor installations inside museums, like the Wrapped Floor at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago in 1968, and not monumental at all by any standards. Votes: 3
The fact that the work is affirmed by the Museum of Contemporary Art I think sends continued signals that this is worth paying attention to, looking at, and understanding. Votes: 3
This is a grave danger: the stoppage of information between the parts of the planet. Contemporary science knows that such stoppage is the way of entropy, of universal destruction. Votes: 3
I would hope that wherever Sheryl Crow, Paula Cole, and Fiona get played is where I'd be played. And right now that seems to be the modern Adult Contemporary market. Votes: 3
The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it. Votes: 3
I occasionally play works by contemporary composers and for two reasons. First to discourage the composer from writing any more and secondly to remind myself how much I appreciate Beethoven. Votes: 3
Jascha Heifetz
What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real. Votes: 3
Weber's writing is as strong as any in the Contemporary Folk community. ' Goodbye to Dad' is one of the best original tunes that I have heard in a long time. Votes: 3
My place in Chicago is a 105 year old house, but I really like contemporary spaces too, so it's refreshing and fun to be in a space where you can do contemporary things. Votes: 3
Ted Allen
If art is any good, it has so much of a longer trajectory than one night. Contemporary art is separate from art openings. In the end, it depends on the strength of ideas in each piece. Votes: 3
Elizabeth Peyton
Contemplation of life after retirement and life after death can help you deal with contemporary challenges. Votes: 2
Russell M. Nelson
The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap. Votes: 2
Spiro T. Agnew
People don't like contemporary art, but all art starts life as contemporary - I can't really see a difference. Votes: 2
The problem, when comparing contemporary television to television in 1974, is that TV has become not just bad but sad. Votes: 2
The music that I've made in the past has had strong contemporary country roots, but I think moving on in music, I will branch out from that a bit. Votes: 2
It is easy to gain a definite notion of the furnishing of colonial houses from a contemporary and reliable source - the inventories of the estates of the colonists. Votes: 2
Alice Morse Earle
Why is it that many contemporary male thinkers, especially men of color, repudiate the imperialist legacy of Columbus but affirm dimensions of that legacy by their refusal to repudiate patriarchy? Votes: 2
A sad fact of life lately at the Museum of Modern Art is that when it comes to group shows of contemporary painting from the collection, the bar has been set pretty low. Votes: 2
The extinction of race consciousness as between Muslims is one of the outstanding achievements of Islam, and in the contemporary world there is, as it happens, a crying need for the propagation of this Islamic virtue. Votes: 2
You have reckoned that history ought to judge the past and to instruct the contemporary world as to the future. The present attempt does not yield to that high office. It will merely tell how it really was. Votes: 2
Leopold Von Ranke
Popular culture isn't a freeze-frame; it is images zapping by in rapid-fire succession, which is why collage is such an effective way of representing contemporary life. The blur between images creates a kind of motion in the mind. Votes: 2
We must not fail to recognise that television can be a hugely positive influence in children's lives, one of the greatest educators in contemporary society and an increasing influence on all the children followed in 'Child of Our Time.' Votes: 2
The conception that, instead of this, contemporary society is at or near a turning point is very prominent in the views of a school of social scientists who, though they are still comparatively few, are getting more and more of a hearing. Votes: 2
Talcott Parsons
It takes a perverse determination to drain that instinctive curiosity away and make history seem just remote, dead and disconnected from our contemporary reality. Conversely, it just takes skilful storytelling to recharge that connection to make the past come alive in our present. Votes: 2
My own interest in art was because of my mother. My father didn't like contemporary art, so he didn't give her large sums to spend. So, she began buying prints and drawings. During my school days, I remember sitting in on many of the early meetings. Votes: 2
So when I got to be about 13 or 14, I started listening - even though my parents music was way cool - to contemporary hard rock at that time, which was Aerosmith, Cheap Trick, Black Sabbath, AC/DC, Ted Nugent and all that, and that's just where I came from. Votes: 2
I'm just sick of the way things are. We're in an age in which we can't live without accepting the logic of the market. Contemporary politics is all about short-term pragmatism. We have abandoned religion and philosophy... What we have left is the automatisation of doing what the market tells us. Votes: 2
While there are many experts in the psychoanalysis of individuals, there seems to be little active authority or understanding in the matter of the persistent shared madness in everyday life. It's as if collective mental illness doesn't exist except in the vernacular and in contemporary folk myth, where it remains trapped and politically useless. Votes: 2
Michael Leunig
My parents were very, very close; they pretty much grew up together. They were born in 1912. They were each other's only boyfriend and girlfriend. They were - to use a contemporary term I hate - co-dependent, and they had me very late. So they had their way of doing things, and they reinforced each other. Votes: 2
I'm a big believer in pairing classics with contemporary literature, so students have the opportunity to see that literature is not a cold, dead thing that happened once but instead a vibrant mode of storytelling that's been with us a long time - and will be with us, I hope, for a long time to come. Votes: 2
I grew up in New Mexico, and the older I get, I have less need for contemporary culture and big cities and all the stuff we are bombarded with. I am happier at my ranch in the middle of nowhere watching a bug carry leaves across the grass, listening to silence, riding my horse, and being in open space. Votes: 2
I always listen to all kinds of different music from different years. I listen to the contemporary, but once in a while into eighties, you know just for fun, and sometimes classical too. So I have this big mix on my i-pod... Amy Winehouse, Gwen Stefani, OutKast, Jay-Z. I listen to trance, pop, everything. It really depends on my mood. Votes: 2
We are one. Votes: 1
Thomas Sweeney
The Doctrine is the Ecstasy Votes: 1
J.T.Abraham
Shame comes in different doses. Votes: 1
Carla H. Krueger
Amica mia. Amore mio. Mio respiro. Votes: 1
Petra March
The Question is actually the answer Votes: 1
Jerril Thomas Abraham
Everything was on television last night Votes: 1
A blank canvas...has unlimited possibilities. Votes: 1
When extremists come together extreme things happen. Votes: 1
The gossip will kill your Great Grandmother. Votes: 1
Linda Joyce
The house was the color of baby vomit. Votes: 1
Pixie Lynn Whitfield
No good deed goes unpunished - Oscar Wilde Votes: 1
Allen Mack
You need a father figure in your life. Votes: 1
Poetry is not an art, it's a symptom. Votes: 1
Michele Brenton
His manhood sways briefly, then comes to a standstill. Votes: 1
I am Not, but the Universe is my Self. Votes: 1
Shih-t'ou
Just so you're clear, that wasn't a pity kiss. Votes: 1
Lisa Brown Roberts
Forgivenesss: It's a miracle drug. It's God's miracle drug. Votes: 1
Change the world so that nothing else is changed. Votes: 1
I congratulate you on your success stealing the painting. Votes: 1
Don't think about that. Just believe I'll be okay. Votes: 1
Shane Morgan
The destruction of something beautiful can appear so entertaining. Votes: 1
I'll die of embarrassment." "At least you'll die knowing. Votes: 1
Sandy Hall
Like, like, like. My confidence grew with each click. Votes: 1
I laugh, and it sounds like I've been sucking helium. Votes: 1
What you loved as a child, you will love forever Votes: 1
Francesca Zappia
I am ready for battle. I am ready to fight. Votes: 1
Ashley Earley
it's not about what to think,it's about how to think. Votes: 1
Does bad luck come in 3's...or is it multiples of 3? Votes: 1
Tara Ford
Every time I so much as blink you get an erection. Votes: 1
Express yourself, Express your life, Express the Moment.. Live the life. Votes: 1
There is no happiness like mine.I have been eating poetry. Votes: 1
Express yourself, Express your life, Express the Moment, Live the life. Votes: 1
Don't be tricked by the verisimilitude into forgetting this is fiction! Votes: 1
Sha Li
Enjoy the tiny unexplainable second. You can learn whatever you want. Votes: 1
How do you mourn something that never really belonged to you? Votes: 1
Rebecca Serle
Meeting new people is just remembering faces of God we've forgotten. Votes: 1
Harry Whitewolf
Men circle like bees around honey, buzzing to communicate their sexual despair. Votes: 1
I need you. Right now. Let me love you right here, please. Votes: 1
I had fallen too far. I was in love with Rush Finlay. Votes: 1
What if the greatest love story ever told was the wrong one? Votes: 1
A nation forgetting its own laughter is in a sad state of affairs Votes: 1
Sherry Marie Gallagher
Please. Forgive me. One more chance, Blaire. I want this. I want you. Votes: 1
Even though we all know something,There is a lot more to it. Votes: 1
You want something, you go after it, and you hang on to it Votes: 1
Maybe he would see me as weak and stupid. Maybe he was right. Votes: 1
Leslea Tash
If love is like a possession, maybe my letter are like my exorcisms Votes: 1
In his arms, I slowly unfolded like a love note read in secret. Votes: 1
Jill S. Alexander
Let them Teach,Let them learn,let them pray,for the world is theirs. Votes: 1
Faces close, they breathed into each other, their bodies slick with water and sweat. Votes: 1
Melissa Cutler
It's funny how one life-changing event could make you forget what happiness felt like. Votes: 1
Christie Cote
I look at her suspiciously. ... Nothing is ever short and easy in this class. Votes: 1
Life is something that no one can teach you,You have to learn it. Votes: 1
When you walk,go different roads that take you nowhere,and see your world. Votes: 1
If you have just one person believe in you, you'll always find your way Votes: 1
Only men with intelligence, confidence and absolutely no empathy at all can progress upstairs. Votes: 1
Just when we thought everything was going to be okay, we all fell apart. Votes: 1
Apparently, I'm a sucker for a man with belt buckles the size of Texas. Votes: 1
I can feel that I'm in a dream, but I can't wake myself up. Votes: 1
Follow your heart a little more and listen to your head a little less. Votes: 1
We're going balls to the wall, guys. Our sneak-and-peak just turned into a hostage rescue Votes: 1
Events That Haunt The Mind And Scar It With Nightmares Are Never What They Seem... Votes: 1
P.W. Creighton
... The use of your gift for good is your responsibility. You must decide for yourself. Votes: 1
Sometimes,you don't wake up.But if you happento, you know thingswill never bethe same. Votes: 1
Ellen Hopkins
I'm an invisible monster. I'm incapable of loving anybody. You don't know which is worse. Votes: 1
You know all the ways you can kill a girl?God, there are so many. Votes: 1
And I want to kiss you every day, but not just because I'm saying goodbye. Votes: 1
Melissa Pearl
A soft moan escapes me, making him smile even more. He's too good at this. Votes: 1
He has the body of a professional athlete, chiseled to perfection in all the right places. Votes: 1
...their voices are quieter than the other groups around them, but their body language speaks volumes. Votes: 1
Kalist likes to listen to the collective voices swell as more individuals in his colony arrive. Votes: 1
Let me just unsubscribe to my own mind already, because I don't get any of it. Votes: 1
I am yours," he whispered. "I live to hold you, Risa. I breathe to touch you. Votes: 1
This girl owns me, whether she realizes it or not. I'm a slave to her will. Votes: 1
Baumauer wants a life in which he cannot be belittled, judged or controlled by worse men. Votes: 1
uh, yeah, I love...worms" Classic. Someone should record the gold that flows from my mouth. Votes: 1
Calm down. If I wanted to hurt you, I wouldn't need this knife to do it. Votes: 1
In the deep Mysteries of the world, their belong time, still unexplored and to be explored. Votes: 1
It was all in the means of expressing himself without anyone having to ever understand it. Votes: 1
Lauren Lola
What are friends for, but to help each other get through bad times and have multiple orgasms? Votes: 1
Elizabeth Morgan
Rubbing a clit to competin and sawing off someone's foot seemed to use all the same muscles. Votes: 1
I don't know what Alex did to piss this poisonous cow off, but now I want blood. Votes: 1
Cheree Smith
They died together; they'll always be remembered together. It's decided, once and for all. He was hers. Votes: 1
If he would see me again, I would die happy. In the meantime, I was merely dying. Votes: 1
Well, strap my ass to a flagpole and hoist it skyward' an all to familiar voice declared. Votes: 1
Keri Arthur
How can you be kissing at a time like this? Have you no respect for the dead? Votes: 1
It's sad that bad things have to happen in order for us to stop and look around. Votes: 1
Megan Duke
I was between them, and as the tension sparked, I felt like a small rodent trapped between mastodons. Votes: 1
Phillipa Bornikova
Every time when you think,Think about every first 20 seconds of your best Moments in your life time. Votes: 1
Alexa's heart jumped and skittered. She was at her favorite star's concert. And he was holding her hand! Votes: 1
Jennette Green
... she was a pudding of immaturity and precocious wisdom that had not yet set into a stable mold. Votes: 1
Sometimes...the hardest part about letting someone go is realizing that you were never meant to have them. Votes: 1
The only people who need to fear me, are those that hurt you..." - TDS, Seven Dirty Words Votes: 1
Charlotte V. Howard
It is in the elements that we found ourselves; even though the elements are not the same today. Votes: 1
You wouldn't believe how boring of a job it is, tasting food to make sure it isn't poisoned. Votes: 1
Elizabeth Englewood
Lies are like a treadmill with no off switch. You have to keep walking or you'll fall off. Votes: 1
Om is the things, Om is the ingredient, Om is the container and the content of this universe. Votes: 1
Banani Ray
Mending a broken heart isn't easy. It's messy and complicated, but when it's finished, it's stronger than ever. Votes: 1
It's fine, but don't ask me to strip again or I'm going to wonder what your intentions really are. Votes: 1
My emotions are spiraling out of control. I never promised I would be logical at a time like this! Votes: 1
Love is a risk. It always is. None of us is guaranteed a long life. But love takes courage. Votes: 1
Life had a funny way of kicking you in the gut when you weren't looking.~Torn~ by S. Nelson Votes: 1
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Here's a new 'Blessing' for our time -- 'May Anderson Cooper never be sent to report on your town! Votes: 1
He and his brothers were heroes at heart - even if they were all bad boy on the outside Votes: 1
Anne Marsh
Life's messy," he agreed. "But sometimes amazing things can happen, even when it seems like it's all falling apart. Votes: 1
My heart starts to pound as he gets closer and closer to the stands, never taking his eyes off me. Votes: 1
Don't compete with your friends to win a date with few beautiful girls, but compete to win few beautiful goals. Votes: 1
Amit Kalantri
My eyes refuse to let him leave, but he stands still holding my hand, lingering for as long as possible. Votes: 1
Om is that God of love. Like a loving mother Om cleans us of our clutters collected through many incarnations. Votes: 1
He liked confidence in a woman. And intelligence. And apparently he liked sass, all wrapped up in a straight-laced, tight-lipped bodyguard. Votes: 1
J.K. Coi
So our narcissism has bared forth an unflattering nakedness that shames our species. But this is humanity. This is our condition. Votes: 1
Zack Love
We're enveloped in pitch black. "Wait here," I whisper."Are you getting your ax?""Handcuffs.""Kinky. But, okay, I'll try it. Votes: 1
That girl was a goddess and once a guy got hooked on her it was damn hard weaning off. - Drake Votes: 1
Victoria H. Smith
Spider had that easy way about him that people who have never had anything bad happen to them seem to possess. Votes: 1
Heidi R. Kling
Will you be able to touch me again without thinking about Sean? I don't want you to be disgusted by me. Votes: 1
I feel like this is a horror story. That's how scared I am right now."Don't be scared.""That doesn't help. Votes: 1
His lips are against my ear and I feel the warmth of his body surrounding me, caging me in, comforting me. Votes: 1
How many of your contemporaries - when asked the question 'Are you glad you had kids'? - invariably respond 'Yes, but..'? Votes: 1
Alex Morritt
Se tu non fossi scappata, se tu fossi rimasta con me...loro sarebbero ancora vivi".(Maksim-La mia vendetta con te @Giovanna Roma) Votes: 1
Giovanna Roma
The streetlight forge speech bubbles of illumination in the air. A faint glow from the moon casts eerie shadows behind the dark clouds. Votes: 1
If you want the extra-ordinary, you've got to be willing to forsake the ordinary' - Annie Grimes in Mr Alhourani's Dead Man's Spots Votes: 1
D.M. Lee
I'm so stupid," I tell her, tears streaming down my face now, blocking my vision. "You're not stupid. You're just an emotional vampire. Votes: 1
Lily Paradis
I am neither modern nor ancient - just contemporary, as every Guru was. If one is not relevant for today, what is the point? Votes: 1
Sadghuru
Happiness comes in many forms. Whether through a passion for something or someone, it makes no difference. The results are the same: you live. Votes: 1
Keep a logical but open mind. What one may pass off as a psychological dysfunction could be a burst of imagination at its finest. Votes: 1
She actually isn't so bad, now that I'm getting to know her. She's just a little messy on the outside. But aren't we all? Votes: 1
S. Elle Cameron
Is he following? Can you have a flaming gay moment or something and check?""Why do I have to be the flaming gay one? Votes: 1
Finn Marlowe
He was struck dumb by her brilliant blue eyes. Eyes that could drag a man out of the darkest hole and into the light. Votes: 1
Have you ever believed in something so completely that you were willing to give up everything and everyone in your life to protect it? Votes: 1
Happiness & Sadness are two contemporary stages in life. A wise man overcomes sadness with his wisdom, and a foolish man faces it with tears. Votes: 1
Deepak Chandra
So if you choose me, then you have declared me more special to you than anyone else, because only one man can have that honor. Votes: 1
You naked in my bed is even more unbelievably beautiful than I thought it would be... and trust me I've thought about it. A lot. Votes: 1
And I had just kissed my ex-girlfriend, who had cried, while my current girlfriend was in jail. So far, it had not been my best day. Votes: 1
He now realized that right and wrong were intertwined notions. His arms could not differentiate between just and unjust causes. They only knew that they were empty. Votes: 1
Roy L. Pickering Jr.
With you and me, I don't know what anything means. We're pushing each other away and yet I don't seem to be able to let you go. Votes: 1
Blaire, even if all we do is kiss or just lay there and talk, I'm okay with that. I just wanted you up here. Close to me. Votes: 1
I could read between the lines just as well as anyone, especially Riona. Telling the Queen of Faerie to shut the fuck up probably came with consequences. Votes: 1
Suzanne M. Sabol
I was not being mean. Mean was her mother giving her the name Bernice Woodward.Ryals, R.K.. Cursed (The Thorne Trilogy Book 1) (Kindle Locations 66-67). . Kindle Edition. Votes: 1
R.K. Ryals
She sounded like she really meant it, and I wondered if I actually was standing here on the sidewalk with her, and not still asleep in my room. Votes: 1
Claudette Melanson
It was like I couldn't think of any words. Now I can think of about nine million." "How many words are in the English language?""Not the point. Votes: 1
It's just...how do I put this? Maybe it's just hard for me to imagine turning down something that's so much harder for someone like me to find. Votes: 1
Liz Czukas
Most of my dates had consisted of some guy trying to sweet-talk me while I silently prayed for an asteroid to crash into whatever diner we were at. Votes: 1
I should walk away. That would be the right thing to do. It would be the smart thing. But I can't, because I'm Taylor Caldwell, the girl who cuts. Votes: 1
There wasn't a shed of doubt in her mind that he'd fulfill her every sexual fantasy and them some.But was a brief, hot affair worth losing his friendship? Votes: 1
Francis Ray
Time had taught him that whether his sins were pardoned or left unforgiven, they would remain committed. Tomorrow he would hopefully choose wiser, with a stronger measure of compassion. Votes: 1
Snakes don't have fuckin' legs, so how was I supposed to think there'd be one hidin' in the face of a damn rock that's ten feet below the summit? Votes: 1
I'll carry you." But she was already holding on, and though she knew she'd have to soon, she didn't see how she'd ever be able to let go of him. Votes: 1
I think I knew from the first moment I met her, she would be the one to replace me. I didn't think it would happen that fast, but it did. Votes: 1
He said they've literally set up a camp across the street from the hotel and they have signs and bullhorns and the kind of Christian attitude that makes God puke. Votes: 1
Robyn Peterman
I want him and even if it's frightening, even if I may not be completely ready for a relationship, I want him. Now... And tomorrow, and all the following days. Votes: 1
His grip on my shoulder tightens. His other hand behind my head caresses me softly and I sigh."Touch me, Skye."His voice is rough, almost sounding like a groan. Votes: 1
I didn't put him in his place. I was acknowledging his blind spot. We all have them. It just takes the right push to be able to really see them. Votes: 1
She loves dogs. And in time, who knows, maybe she would even have ended up loving the type of dogs who eat other small dogs for lunch.-- Leslie McNeill Votes: 1
Richard Finney
I look into his sorrowless eyes and a door in my heart blows open. And when we kiss, i see that on the other side of that door is sky. Votes: 1
The elements are a way to define what abstract is; and abstract is a taught as like any other than ,what to think? and how to think? and you may begin.. Votes: 1
What if just you and I hung out, like last summer?" Nick sat up and began twirling a lock of my wet hair around his finger. "Josh never needs to know. Votes: 1
Dana Burkey
Her eyes narrowed, but she wasn't yelling.I think she liked me... kind of. The way a mother would like an annoying spastic two year old who belonged to someone else. Votes: 1
His smile is beautiful. It's the kind of smile that can take away all nervousness and tension in a room, no matter how big. I have no choice but to smile back. Votes: 1
I'm agnostic. By definition, I'm unsure of what to believe in, but I'm also borderline-capable of believing in anything and everything, or nothing at all... and I want to believe in something. Votes: 1
I cannot believe I have been duped, not once but twice. My three years gaining a degree in psychology was clearly a waste of time. I might as well have studied Klingon. Votes: 1
Susan Lodge
She touched him everywhere she could reach. The rounded hardness of his biceps and chest, the ripped contours of his back, his thick, damp hair, until touching with his hands wasn't enough. Votes: 1
down. There just was no way someone that good looking was getting made fun of. Plus guys could sleep with a whole team and it would be okay. Talk about double standards. Votes: 1
Am I in trouble? He chortled, "well, a bunch of not-so-friendly thugs were waiting to ambush you and blow up your apartment. If that doesn't qualify as trouble, I don't know what does. Votes: 1
I love you Bonnie. So much that I hurt with it. And I hate it, and I love it, and I want it to go away, and i want it to stay forever.... Votes: 1
I remember...watching that separation of sea and sky...and for the first time I realize that none of us are seeing the same thing. That all our horizons end in different places. Votes: 1
Huntley Fitzpatrick
Sometimes our balance has to be upset and our course reset in order to help us navigate to our final destination. This is my final destination and where I was meant to be. Votes: 1
Ella Dominguez
Do not tell me what I think you're going to or I swear to God, I'm going to fly to Brazil and go all black ops on this guy for cheating on you. Votes: 1
When he spoke of love, it was in the manner of someone who can recite a phrase in a foreign language but has no idea what it means. He only knows that it sounds pretty. Votes: 1
...Love can give you the most exhilarating wonderful highs at times... ...Then there will be dives that will take all you have just to hold on... Quote on the Title Page of "Love TORN Asunder Votes: 1
Elizabeth Funderbirk
She looked at his outstretched hand, seeing it for what it was. A challenge. An invitation. A promise. They could never be just a "fling." A fling was something you didn't put your heart into. Votes: 1
Fate was cruel to play this trick on her, although if she were honest she knew she only had herself to blame. She had taken the chance and now she had to pay the price. Votes: 1
Emily Arden
I want to know what it feels like to kiss a guy. And you've had a lot of practice, so I know you're a good kisser.Are you simultaneously complimenting me and calling me a whore? Votes: 1
Abigail Roux
The animals known as human beings live in humongous condominium blocks, just going about their daily lives. I've come to realize that it's just a modern jungle. And I'm the girl who's wandered into the forest. Votes: 1
I smiled sadly and whispered, "I would have taken a bullet for you, too, you know.""I know," he whispered gruffly and lifted my chin, "and that pisses me off and turns me on at the same time. Votes: 1
Shelly Crane
Talk to me. Say something, anything," he pleaded quietly as if he was trying to tame a wild animal."There's nothing to say."He looked up and lowered his eyebrows on his eyes. "Why did you kiss me? Votes: 1
There were many tomorrows to be lived through his children. He could only hope that they would face them more courageously than he had, that his mistakes would serve as warning signs rather than crutches to lean on. Votes: 1
On occasion we stumble upon what seems to be a truth. Compared to the surrounding blackness, it sparkles and dazzles our eyes. But are these actually truths? Are our eyes really feasting upon light? Or just patches of grey? Votes: 1
Lucy: I don't feel like talking about college. It increases my stress level.James: And increased stress levels lead to hair loss.Lucy: My head-hair volume is fine.James: You say that like I should be concerned about leg-hair volume. Votes: 1
Kristen Tracy
No, this was Philly. Drunks here boo Santa and get in more trouble than a dog with an Easter basket, and like the dog, they usually end up either sick or dead. Ah yes, another lovely eve in the big city. Votes: 1
He moved his head closer to mine and then stopped, his lips a few millimetres away from mine. I couldn't breathe, my heart was racing, but not from the usual fear I had. It was because I wanted to kiss him Votes: 1
Lacing my fingers through his, I studied them. His fingers were so much longer than mine, and I envisioned what those fingers could do. And how long they would take to do it before they sent me over the edge. - Lacey Votes: 1
Sometimes we just have to accept the fact we can't explain everything. Life happens, whether we want it to or not and we don't always have a reason why. Our job is to try and make some good come out of it. Votes: 1
I stared at him. Did he really just say that? Did he remember? The way he looked back at me, one eyebrow raised, I knew he did. And this time, I was the one to look away. Because I remembered. I remembered everything. Votes: 1
Kyle must have seen my panic, because when I looked up at him again, his jacket and shirt were off and he was handing me his shirt. The sight of him with no shirt on hit me. Holy hell, what was he doing? Votes: 1
Impressive," Court offered, gallantly bending to retrieve the shoe. "You should join the theater.""Fuck you.""I owed you that.""Revenge is a dish best served with a side of handcuffs and a hard ass-fucking. Remember that."Really is a dirty fighter. Goddamn. Votes: 1
Because even if we were struggling, we had goals. It didn't matter that we weren't there yet. What mattered is that we both experienced setbacks, and full-blown failures, but we got up, brushed ourselves off, and kept going-and were making the best of it. Votes: 1
Is your name even David?' I asked as I yanked my panties back on.'Is yours Melanie?' he inquired, buttoning his jeans.'I asked first,' I countered, wondering for the umpteenth time why being an idiot came so easily to me. Votes: 1
They died together; they'll always be remembered together. It's decided, once and for all. He was hers. The rumors don't matter; they'll fade...People may remember it was suicide, but my name won't be attached. It will just be two lovers, fused together forever. Votes: 1
Tonight, after we're done with the bank, we're going to finish this. Somewhere it's just the two of us. But if I keep kissing you right now, I'm not going to have enough blodd left in my brain to keep you safe at the bank. Votes: 1
The only way, I thought to myself, that this could get any weirder would be if it turns out he has that dead body's head on ice where in the basement, some ready for transplantation onto Cindy Crawford's body as soon as it becomes available. Votes: 1
It was his experience that life worked under the same guidelines as a capitalistic society. In order to get what you wanted, it was usually necessary to give up something in return. Sometimes gaining what you defined as everything meant losing what you most needed. Votes: 1
For God's sake, don't let her watch Cinderella. What kind of example is that? A mindless twit who can't even remember where she left her damn shoe, so she has to wait for some douchebag in tights to bring it to her? Give me a frigging break! Votes: 1
He tilted my head up with his index finger. Tingles spread on my skin. "Pain, obstacles, betrayal and all shitty things that happen in life shape everyone, just as much as good things do. Don't regret anything if in the end you can say you're an amazing woman. Votes: 1
He smiled wickedly, and my body warmed. "Girls dig bad boys.""Unfortunately, that's true.""Is there a message, Bridge?""In your dreams," I replied with a roll of my eyes, but it was all an act because there was a message there. I wanted him. I was screwe Votes: 1
All I knew was that I couldn't have him right now. It was impossible. Could I have him in a year? Two years? Five years? Ten years? I didn't know. All I knew was that although the universe was pushing us together, it was also pushing us apart. Votes: 1
I kind of thought actually that Trevor was gone completely mental when he called up here a few weeks ago. Like, why would he not text or email or Facebook? What's with all the reality, I thought. Does he not know he's a million times cooler in virtual form? Votes: 1
Donal Ryan
Listen up, Nic," she said firmly, looking straight into his gray-blue eyes. "If you die on me out here, so help me I'll hold seances and pester you. I won't give you a moment's peace in the hereafter," she threatened in a fierce whisper. Gabrielle O'Hara, River of Dreams Votes: 1
Sharon K. Garner
What could I offer the local bad boy except my livelihood? Oh, I know. My body or my planes! Why didn't I think of that? Would you have preferred that I offer him my body, Nic, because I sure as hell wasn't going to sign over either of my planes! Votes: 1
All I could think about was the heat of his soft lips, the way they fitted so wonderfully as I was coaxing him to open them some more, just enough to let my tongue slip in and taste him. I needed a taste, needed to complete this fantasy of mine. Votes: 1
We were vicious and violent but elegant and discreet. There was a dance to all of this, one that kept all things flowing in the right direction, a circle that ensured the smartest and brightest would stay on top, not the man with the most guns and the smallest dick. Votes: 1
Why I felt the need to always disobey everyone around me was beyond me. But I guess being sixteen years old made me susceptible to bouts of irrational behaviour and the occasional notion that I was in fact smarter than everyone else, regardless of whether or not that was true. Votes: 1
Kristy Berridge
She wanted his strong, capable hands on her blody and those soft lips locked with hers. She wanted to be held tight and kissed until she could forget-if only for a few precious minutes-that her life as she knew it had evaporated in a cloud of smoke and flame and violence. Votes: 1
The French have a penchant for absolutism, for thinking that things are all one way or all another, which is why their politics are marked by a general inability to compromise and why they tend to hold their personal opinions until the bitter end, even after they have clearly lost an argument. Votes: 1
How much the pain grew inside him after Ossie died until the only way to deal with it was to throw himself into the fray. And the whole time, Vanessa's body was wrapped around him like she was the only one being strong as a shield while he stripped his life bare. Votes: 1
A tightrope walker uncertain if he could make it to the other side probably would not. A race car driver wondering if he was taking a turn too fast was likely to lose control. If a man feared death, whether his own or the taking of another's, death would surely come calling. Votes: 1
He felt torn. He wanted her to feel safe with him, but he also wanted her to feel the sort of heady excitement that any young girl should feel when they fall in love. He wanted to give her everything she craved, and he was not quite sure he could do it. Votes: 1
My mouth dropped open, because even if it wasn't my best friend, I knew the guy who was presently rubbing the short stubble on his chin. The only new thing about him was the little scar on his left eyebrow. It was Gabriel Green, known to me as Gabe the douche bag. Great! Votes: 1
At the Beginning there was Incomplete information,then belief and then an abstract idea but if you reach Pure reasoning then you start to understand the dualities of life itself.The sunset,the sunrise;A star from approximately 93 million miles away and still as bright as it is in the sky some where unknown. Votes: 1
All history is contemporary history. Votes: 0
The poet is always our contemporary. Votes: 0
I read very little contemporary anything. Votes: 0
Alan Furst
I write nothing but contemporary romances. Votes: 0
I'm always interested in contemporary fiction. Votes: 0
Imagination without skill gives us contemporary art. Votes: 0
I wanted to disconnect from contemporary architecture Votes: 0
Anxiety is the handmaiden of contemporary ambition. Votes: 0
Without doubt, Thomas Edison is my greatest contemporary. Votes: 0
Knowledge Qf history frees us to be contemporary. Votes: 0
Lynn Townsend White, Jr.
I think book clubs should read more contemporary poetry. Votes: 0
Chang-Rae Lee
I have a passion for modern and contemporary art. Votes: 0
Delphine Arnault
I love black-and-white movies that are about contemporary subjects. Votes: 0
You know, I listen to contemporary music all the time Votes: 0
We need it to capture the energy of contemporary life. Votes: 0
John Eaton
You know, I listen to contemporary music all the time. Votes: 0
Kitsch is the contemporary form of the Gothic, Rococo, Baroque. Votes: 0
Frank Wedekind
Mother's interest in contemporary American artists emerged during the 1920s. Votes: 0
It is very difficult to build contemporary architecture in Italy Votes: 0
The most damaging aspect of contemporary living is short-term thinking. Votes: 0
The most underrated of all contemporary American writers of fiction. Votes: 0
William March
The number of contemporary artists who appeal to me is infinitesimal. Votes: 0
Most contemporary philosophers are conservative and eager to keep their jobs. Votes: 0
Jack Ryan' is a very fast-paced, very contemporary, very action-driven thriller. Votes: 0
I don't think there's a defined contemporary American musical, do you? Votes: 0
Harold Prince
Imprisonment in the contemporary is the worst of all intellectual tyrannies. Votes: 0
Weston La Barre
Strangers are contemporary posterity. [Fr., Les etrangers sont la posterite contemporaine.] Votes: 0
Madame de Stael
The 1,000 Buddha, to me, is almost like a contemporary art piece. Votes: 0
I think you can be contemporary without taking your clothes off. Votes: 0
Robert Helpmann
I have no qualm about the quality of the contemporary repertory, Votes: 0
I really don't take any interest at all in contemporary comedy. Votes: 0
Since 1985, I have written about contemporary Jewish practice and the Jewish community. Votes: 0
Anita Diament
Most of my contemporary grant-getters are now doing something other than painting. Votes: 0
Robert Genn
I wanted to make a kids' film that would strengthen contemporary mythology. Votes: 0
The problem of telling contemporary history is that your message gets outdated. Votes: 0
The contemporary authors I most admire are Nick Hornby and Jonathan Tropper. Votes: 0
Mike Greenberg
Much contemporary verse reads like failed short-short stories rather than failed poetry. Votes: 0
My musical life started with hearing and being fascinated by contemporary music. Votes: 0
So much of contemporary liberalism seems to be never having grown up. Votes: 0
Jay Nordlinger
There are rooms for traditional and contemporary and hip hop Gospel music. Votes: 0
Novels, except as aids to masturbation, play no part in contemporary life. Votes: 0
We need new ideas and new creativities to help address contemporary issues. Votes: 0
It's become very popular in contemporary films to have the twist ending. Votes: 0
It's a mystery to me the way that contemporary art galleries function. Votes: 0
No aspect of our contemporary lives has been untouched by women's work. Votes: 0
Dyllan McGee
I wanted to introduce a contemporary Asia to a North American audience. Votes: 0
This so-called contemporary art is not a form, but a philosophy of society, Votes: 0
The most striking feature of contemporary culture is the unslaked craving for transcendence. Votes: 0
Andrew Delbanco
...Venice has been the living future of contemporary American history since its inception. Votes: 0
Give contemporary POET more SPACE & a long-last MAGIC will surround you all again. Votes: 0
Kristian Goldmund Aumann
I write contemporary fiction, and that is what my readers want to read. Votes: 0
An obituary should be an exercise in contemporary history, not a funeral oration. Votes: 0
Peter Utley
I never do releases to try and make or break some contemporary band. Votes: 0
The dominant mood of contemporary American culture is the self-celebration of the peasantry. Votes: 0
William A. Henry III
I don't listen to the contemporary pop artists. They all sound alike, anyway. Votes: 0
Our contemporary life is based on information that can change at any time. Votes: 0
DJ Spooky
My persona is less miserable than a lot of contemporary poetry speakers are. Votes: 0
I sometimes think the contemporary white American is more culturally deprived than the Indian. Votes: 0
N. Scott Momaday
I want to be a contemporary artist and at the same time a romantic! Votes: 0
Luis Gonzalez
Many ancient (and contemporary) societies considered the sexually awakened femaleas both auspicious and dangerous. Votes: 0
Srinivasan
The greatest need of the contemporary international system is an agreed concept of order. Votes: 0
Henry A. Kissinger
Democracy in the contemporary world demands, among other things, an educated and informed people. Votes: 0
Pearl Harbor is strenuously respectful of contemporary sensitivities, sometimes at the cost of accuracy. Votes: 0
A. O. Scott
Larry J. Sabato
Wealth is power, and power is the only thing about which contemporary culture cares. Votes: 0
I don't think that modesty is the outstanding characteristic of contemporary politics, do you? Votes: 0
There is nothing more trite than a period room imposed on a contemporary setting. Votes: 0
Van Day Truex
Everyone has pencils in their house, no matter how hip and contemporary they are. Votes: 0
David Rees
Profit and bottom line, the contemporary mantra, eliminates the very source of architectural expression. Votes: 0
Arthur Erickson
I love contemporary art, although I wouldn't want a pickled shark in my house. Votes: 0
Bruno Tonioli
I didn't even realize that people bought contemporary art . . . that people actually paid for it. Votes: 0
Wade Guyton
All great contemporary artists, schooled or not, are essentially self-taught and are de-skilling like crazy. Votes: 0
The intellectual debility of contemporary conservatism is indicated by its silence on all important matters. Votes: 0
Christopher Lasch
Too much reasoning has spoiled the contemporary mind. People have lost their hearts and faith. Votes: 0
Mata Amritanandamayi
I was listening to the first record the other day, and it sounds remarkably contemporary. Votes: 0
The contemporary Christian mind is starved, and as a result we have small, impoverished souls. Votes: 0
J.P. Moreland
Going back to the noir fiction of the 30s, 40s and 50s. It's very contemporary. Votes: 0
The whole rise of new adult contemporary music and smooth jazz was a nice surprise. Votes: 0
I feel very fortunate to have been a part of many successful contemporary horror franchises. Votes: 0
Because contemporary paganism is essentially so new, its underlying ethical structure is not particularly sophisticated. Votes: 0
Liz Williams
I read a ton of fiction - historical, contemporary, literary, commercial, I love it all. Votes: 0
As a major contemporary composer, Madonna should not let the eye dictate to the ear. Votes: 0
Much of contemporary science is really the length and shadow of the technology we apply. Votes: 0
Erez Lieberman Aiden
During my career I've enjoyed re-invigorating and contextualizing classic characters that are relatable to contemporary audiences. Votes: 0
There are few subjects that match the social significance of women's education in the contemporary world. Votes: 0
If privacy ends where hypocrisy begins, Kitty Kelley's steamy expose is a contribution to contemporary history. Votes: 0
The Louvre stopped buying paintings in 1848, and neither the Metropolitan nor the Hermitage acquire contemporary material. Votes: 0
Neil MacGregor
If you scratch through the deceitful artifice of contemporary photography, you'll find the real artifice underneath. Votes: 0
Douglas McCulloh
No philosopher understands his predecessors until he has re-thought their thought in his own contemporary terms. Votes: 0
Few contemporary artists mined the space between the ordinary and the strange better than Orozco did. Votes: 0
The most prevalent poetic representation of contemporary experience is the mimesis of disorientation by non sequitor. Votes: 0
Tony Hoagland
The photographer is the contemporary being par excellence; through his eyes the now becomes the past. Votes: 0
I write contemporary rock with Jane's. And I also write house music with people like Kascade. Votes: 0
I use contemporary media to reanimate sites and places with images of their own lost histories. Votes: 0
Shimon Attie
The contemporary historian never writes such a true history as the historian of a later generation. Votes: 0
The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing. Votes: 0
I am committed to the idea of information politics. That is how contemporary politics are played out. Votes: 0
Natalie Jeremijenko
Ostensibly rigorous and realistic, contemporary conservatism is an ideology of denial. Its symbol is a smile button. Votes: 0
You see, the contemporary writer must write through his intimations of unease, while trying to elucidate them. Votes: 0
The lust for affluence in contemporary society has become psychotic; it has completely lost touch with reality. Votes: 0
Richard J. Foster
I probably take a pretty traditional view about hell. I'm not very contemporary in terms of that. Votes: 0
My work has been marginalized as far as the jazz-business complex is concerned, or the contemporary-music complex. Votes: 0
Anthony Braxton
When I was a teenager, I was a voracious reader of crime fiction, but only contemporary books. Votes: 0
We may play in a contemporary rock vein, use standard bebop themes, and many other things besides. Votes: 0
Chuck Mangione
Ostensibly rigorous and realistic, contemporary conservatism is an ideology of denial. Its symbol is a smile button." Votes: 0
You really have to go searching desperately to find any contemporary examples of good, old-fashioned runaway inflation. Votes: 0
A creator is so completely contemporary that he has the appearance of being ahead of his generation. Votes: 0
It's hard to find actors that don't feel contemporary when you put them in a period piece. Votes: 0
In fact, I don't watch a lot of contemporary comedy for fear of being influenced by it. Votes: 0
The Democratic Party's rigidly pro-choice stance is one of the more unyielding positions in contemporary American politics. Votes: 0
All art is contemporary, if it's alive, and if it's not alive, what's the point of it? Votes: 0
You cannot even begin to understand contemporary African politics if you have not read this fascinating book Votes: 0
The Corporate impulse for human uniformity instills shame at difference and, thus, the contemporary zeal for privacy. Votes: 0
John Perry Barlow
I think there are all kinds of intrusions into private rights that make use of contemporary technology. Votes: 0
Poles must understand history but we must also overcome it if it is obstructing our contemporary goals. Votes: 0
The contemporary rejection of natural right leads to nihilism — nay, it is identical with nihilism, Votes: 0
Leo Strauss
There are some short essays that are very grave, and most contemporary novels are lighter than air. Votes: 0
When I try to sound like the contemporary sound, it never turns out that way. That's just me. Votes: 0
I've found that contemporary psychology enrages me with its simplistic ideas of human life, and also its emptiness. Votes: 0
But I don't think that poetry is a good, to use a contemporary word, venue, for current events. Votes: 0
I don't worry whether the period is contemporary or three hundred years ago. Human beings are all alike. Votes: 0
A contemporary painting is worth what someone is prepared to pay for it and not a predetermined figure. Votes: 0
Stuart Pearson Wright
I never paid attention to what was contemporary or what was commercial, it didn't mean anything to me. Votes: 0
I've never been at odds with the world of contemporary artists. If there is any animosity, it's one-sided. Votes: 0
Ideology... is a kind of contemporary mythology, a realm which has purged itself of ambiguity and alternative possibility. Votes: 0
I see contemporary violence as a kind of sardonic response to the promise of consumer fulfilment in America... Votes: 0
I can inhabit any character in a way that is difficult to do successfully in a contemporary novel. Votes: 0
Rose Tremain
Philip Larkin has a tough honesty and sense of humor that I find irresistible, as a contemporary poet. Votes: 0
Robert Morgan
The basic unit for contemporary art is not the idea, but the analysis of and extension of sensations. Votes: 0
Oh, how I wish that Orwell were still alive, so that I could read his comments on contemporary events! Votes: 0
When I was writing 'The Abstinence Teacher,' I really tried to immerse myself in contemporary American evangelical culture. Votes: 0
New materials are one of the great afflictions of contemporary art. Some artists confuse new materials with new ideas. Votes: 0
I believe Photoshop is in some way the contemporary darkroom, the creative area that all photographers have available today. Votes: 0
All the spookiness comes from giving a contemporary anachronistic sense to terms whose historical meaning is lost to us. Votes: 0
Frederick C. Beiser
Most problems in contemporary churches can be explained by the fact that members have never decided to follow Christ. Votes: 0
I'm interested in contemporary vision - the flicker of chrome, reflections, rapid associations, quick flashes of light. Bing! Bang! Votes: 0
I listen to a mixture of old jazz, contemporary, pop, some world beat stuff and various odds and ends. Votes: 0
There's something within contemporary culture which is far more faux masculine than it was when men were really men. Votes: 0
Even though the story [Fences] is set during the 1950s, some contemporary women might have trouble understanding her decision. Votes: 0
My mother was a classical pianist and my stepfather was an industrialist who was passionate about composing contemporary music. Votes: 0
As contemporary history reminds us we are human to the extent that we are able to chose between alternatives. Votes: 0
John G. D. Clark
Mother's taste was eclectic and ranged from the ancient world to the contemporary from Europe to the U.S. Votes: 0
I do modern jazz and contemporary combined. I like to feel strong, flexible, and so there is stretching involved. Votes: 0
I have no doubt about a photographer in particular and a digital artist in general having become contemporary icons. Votes: 0
Nikolay Semyonov
I reckon that Stonehege was build by the contemporary equivalent of Microsoft, whereas Avebury was definitely an Apple circle. Votes: 0
I don't think contemporary writers spend a lot of time reading each other. Particularly writers of the same nationality. Votes: 0
If contemporary literary fiction doesn't read a bit like science fiction then it's probably not all that contemporary, is it Votes: 0
Don't Look Back' is my first YA contemporary mystery/thriller. It's been described as 'Black Swan' meets 'Pretty Little Liars'. Votes: 0
Jennifer Armentrout
I know I'm a rare person, a trained scientist who writes fiction, because so few contemporary novelists engage with science. Votes: 0
The essence of the contemporary monetary system is creation of money, out of nothing, by private banks' often foolish lending. Votes: 0
Far too many young people today have no spiritual roots. The've been deprived of values by an agnostic, contemporary culture. Votes: 0
But, number one, I think traditional noir doesn't work in contemporary storytelling because we don't live in that world anymore Votes: 0
Rebecca Goldstein is a rare find among contemporary novelists: she has intellectual muscle as well as a tender emotional reach. Votes: 0
Every work brings new and different challenges. Research is always helpful, regardless of whether the play is contemporary or not. Votes: 0
Gideon Glick
I am undependable. You might get gritty contemporary with one book, science fiction, magical realism, or high fantasy with another. Votes: 0
Mary E. Pearson
Perhaps there is no greater issue facing contemporary women than the choices they must make about balancing home and work. Votes: 0
In contemporary society [the typical lady] is an archaism, and can't hardly understand herself unless she knows her own history. Votes: 0
Emily James Smith Putnam
I always like to play very contemporary concepts of swing right next to New Orleans music because it highlights continuum. Votes: 0
But, number one, I think traditional noir doesn't work in contemporary storytelling because we don't live in that world anymore. Votes: 0
In China, we don't have any contemporary art museums. Until a few years ago, we didn't even have a gallery. Votes: 0
Long historical books get written by women, but not contemporary experiments, which still seems to be a very male-dominated field. Votes: 0
Against the dark background of this contemporary civilization of well-being, even the arts tend to mingle, to lose their identity. Votes: 0
My work seen in its totality is a statement about the integration of the contemporary artist into an industrial society. Votes: 0
[Bob] Dylan is a contemporary Don Quixote, at once besotted by the promise of America and yet also undermining it. Votes: 0
Jay Michaelson
The abstractness of modern art has to do with how much an enlightened mind rejects of the contemporary social order. Votes: 0
Modern art to me is nothing more than the expression of contemporary aims of the age that we're living in. Votes: 0
Telling a story in a futuristic world gives you this freedom to explore things that bother you in contemporary times. Votes: 0
Sex annihilates identity, and the space given to sex in contemporary novels is an avowal of the absence of character. Votes: 0
I don't have lots of things in the background. I do like large faces. I find them strong and contemporary. Votes: 0
Paul Emsley
The first thing that struck me about contemporary music in general had been thatthere was not much interest in rhythm. Votes: 0
The passion to interpret as madness that with which we disagree seems to have infected the best of contemporary minds. Votes: 0
My dad used to sing in a quartet. He loved everything: adult contemporary, anything smooth. He'd listen to the quartets. Votes: 0
I don't like all of the contemporary country. I like some of it, but I'm mostly into the traditional style. Votes: 0
A sort of war of revenge on the intellect is what, for some reason, thrives in the contemporary social atmosphere. Votes: 0
Honestly, I haven't the time to read contemporary writers. I know this is awful, but in the main it is true. Votes: 0
The problem with contemporary art is that no one bothers to do the research necessary to give people what they want. Votes: 0
Nothing contemporary is as extreme or as strongly stated as what the Sex Pistols were able to do in their time. Votes: 0
The agriculture we seek will act like an ecosystem, feature material recycling and run on the contemporary sunlight of our star. Votes: 0
Wes Jackson
It is time to cease to argue about God , and instead to unite in the unmasking of contemporary forms of idolatry. Votes: 0
I'm reading a manuscript by Rodney Jones, "Village Prodigies",it's one of the best contemporary poetry books I've ever read ever. Votes: 0
People like to complain about the state of contemporary literature, but I can only assume they don't read it very widely. Votes: 0
Laura Miller
If I actually believed that the progress of human understanding depended on our crop of contemporary novelists, I would shoot myself. Votes: 0
I've always liked the idea of taking old dramatic ideas and devices and making them feel relevant or contemporary or whatever. Votes: 0
Youth culture now really looks back and embraces the past, but keeps it contemporary but not sticking to one particular style. Votes: 0
Commercials are so contemporary and up to date that when you're involved in that visual world, you can't really go backwards. Votes: 0
You might argue that the history of contemporary art is a series of avant-garde movements, each new wave outraging the last. Votes: 0
In Paris we have bistros, then we have fine dining. In London, you have a very contemporary scene with mixed influences. Votes: 0
You cant get a contemporary story about what is going on inside government, and how society sees itself, on American TV. Votes: 0
It is a paradox in the contemporary world that in our desire for peace we must willingly give ourselves to struggle. Votes: 0
The leaders of the future will be those who dare to claim their irrelevance in the contemporary world as a divine vocation... Votes: 0
I found that a lot of people ridiculed contemporary art. I decided I wanted to be involved in art everybody could understand. Votes: 0
Irene Bennett Brown keeps the promise of her gifted writing and love for history inside this fine contemporary mystery. I loved it. Votes: 0
Jane Kirkpatrick
The Cold War in Africa is one of the darkest, most disgraceful pages in contemporary history, and everybody ought to be ashamed. Votes: 0
There are a number of contemporary playwrights whom I admire enormously, but that's not at all the same thing as being influenced. Votes: 0
It's one of the great tragedies of our contemporary life in America, that families fall apart. Almost everybody has that in common. Votes: 0
There's this idea that when you turn 40, you automatically go to adult contemporary heaven, but I want to try and challenge that. Votes: 0
Jordan Knight
[Nathalie Rykiel] knows by heart the genetic codes of the brand, and she also has a very contemporary and creative opinions about it. Votes: 0
I write about the trials and triumphs of contemporary life - and often the readers see themselves between the lines of the story. Votes: 0
In high school I was drawn to the study of literature, poetry Shakespeare, contemporary fiction, drama, you name it - I read it. Votes: 0
For my students who are trying to learn the craft of writing in a writing class - contemporary literature is what's most useful. Votes: 0
Alan Lightman
The work that lasts over time is the work which still speaks to us when all contemporary interest in that work is extinct. Votes: 0
I mean, people listen to music, and they like that, but I think in England, a lot of people don't like contemporary art. Votes: 0
Somewhere a portion of contemporary art has to exist as an example of what the art and its context were meant to be. Votes: 0
One of the great currents in the contemporary experience of art is that it seems to come out of the experience of the author. Votes: 0
When I look at the objects that I draw, it seems to me so obvious about the contemporary world - these are our world. Votes: 0
Writing songs is about trying to connect with people on a deeper spiritual level - but I'm not a fan of contemporary Christian music. Votes: 0
I read very little contemporary anything... I don't think I read what other people read, but then why would I, considering what I do? Votes: 0
I don't ever sing classically when I am singing a contemporary score - I kind of try to fit in whatever needs to happen. Votes: 0
Kelli O'Hara
The '90s are really the 'Sex and the City' woman, and I think, right now, the new contemporary woman is the 'Lipstick Jungle' woman. Votes: 0
I am concerned that a film without an large advertising [budget] can not establish a connection with contemporary audiences, of course.
Lucrecia Martel
He had a stellar talent. I not only lost a contemporary in the death of Robert E. Howard. The world lost a writer of extraordinary gifts.
Murray Leinster
Its true that contemporary technology permits decentralization, it also permits centralization. It depends on how you use the technology.
The loss of national identity is the greatest defeat a nation can know, and it is inevitable under the contemporary form of colonization.
Slobodan Milosević
A lot of contemporary American culture makes its way to this county. Cuba is not some gray, isolated backwater. This is a happening place.
Body and soul, Black America reveals the extreme questions of contemporary life, questions of freedom and identity: How can I be who I am?
Much more than a 20th-century village storyteller, Cees Nooteboom stands as an impressive and inimitable voice among contemporary writers.
Linda Simon
A novel, I think, is partly about the contemporary and partly about the eternal, and it's the balance of that that's difficult to achieve.
The overwhelming emphasis of contemporary Christianity: "Just do it." The overwhelming emphasis of Biblical Christianity: "It is finished"
There are certainly loads of players that I admire; I try to learn from all of the great masters both of the past and contemporary as well.
The contemporary church is so often a weak, ineffectual voice with an uncertain sound. It is so often the arch supporter of the status quo.
The history of the development of contemporary writing in Vancouver from 1946 to 1960 is pretty largely a one-man show, and that man was me.
One of the terrible fallacies of contemporary psychotherapy is that if people would just say how they felt, a lot of problems could be solved.
Elizabeth Wurtzel
My biggest dream is to be able to be in a movie or some great TV show where I get to dance, and it's about a contemporary dancer of some kind.
Poverty" Pitt exclaimed "is no disgrace but it is damned annoying." In the contemporary United States it is not annoying but it is a disgrace.
John Kenneth Galbraith
I think a lot of artists no longer want to participate in or be associated with narrative because of its corruptedness in contemporary culture.
Commercial rock 'n' roll music is a brutalization of the stream of contemporary Negro church music an obscene looting of a cultural expression.
I think I will just use guitar as backing. I'm not doing a traditional folk thing, but a contemporary thing-my own version of folk, if you like.
Much modern art is, at first sight, unnerving... in the contemporary world, we have come to expect instant response and immediate understanding.
Nicholas Serota
I dislike a great deal of contemporary poetry - all of the past you read is usually quite great - but it is a useful thorn to have in one's side.
Where names of people or places would mean little to a contemporary reader, I figured "translation errors" could create interesting new meanings.
Hal Duncan
I suppose in a way most of my characters are non-consumers, not terribly interested in all the little baubles and artifacts of contemporary life.
Why are the mainstream buzz things rarely contemporary? It doesn't happen very often. It's hard to feel culpable or implicated or even apathetic.
Paul Beatty
I've been immersed in manga since I was a kid. I grew up with this culture. So I started to think about how to compare manga to contemporary art.
Alan [Lomax] and his father started off changing the definition of folk music from something ancient and anonymous to something very contemporary.
Our contemporary Tories prefer the term 'ordered liberty' to 'freedom'. The word 'freedom' scares them; it has too much of a paleolithic ring to it.
I like all sorts of things, not necessarily just Victorian. Even though I tend to read a lot of Victorian novels, I like a lot of contemporary stuff.
Colin Meloy
I don't think they [contemporary writers] read me either. I mean, if we're concerned genuinely with writing, I think we probably get on with our work.
The writing you allude to is a form of dissent, but it's also expressive of the need to evolve beyond what is turgid and stale in contemporary fiction.
There is a ceiling to it and there's a stigma. Billy Crystal as brilliant as he is, he's never going to be thought of as a contemporary like Alan Arkin.
Nevertheless, in the theatre, and in the cinema, the contemporary reality of Poland has been represented only to a minuscule degree in the last 12 years.
[Riccardo Tisci ] has an interesting approach to weaving the contemporary with the couture, and blending tribes and collections. It always seems to work.
I like noise. It's always puzzled me why one of the goals of contemporary recording is to get rid of noise and to eliminate any element of a performance.
This desire to fashion, to shape, a self and a life has all but gone from a contemporary culture whose emphasis, paradoxically enough, is so much on self.
Lionel Trilling
In fact, of course, I hold that propositions that contemporary philosophers would properly count as 'empirical' can be necessary and be known to be such.
Saul Kripke
Whether to the average person, applying contemporary community standards, the dominant theme of the material taken as a whole appeals to prurient interest.
William J. Brennan
It's really important that we not replicate what came before us, but we do something of our own, that's reflective of our own time, of contemporary society.
Peter Clewes
One of his officers, Henry Lee, summed up contemporary public opinion of Washington: First in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen.
...Fan fiction is a way of the culture repairing the damage done in a system where contemporary myths are owned by corporations instead of owned by the folk.
Henry Jenkins
[Takashi] Murakami, do you think he is spiritual? He is more like de-spiritualized. De-spiritualized might be the most contemporary aspect of the human mind.
Today's terrorism is not the product of a traditional history of anarchism, nihilism, or fanaticism. It is instead the contemporary partner of globalization.
I think we'll still be a family restaurant, we'll be contemporary, we'll be lifestyle, we won't be old, we won't be 60 years old in the view of the consumer.
Jim Cantalupo
I believe that the most important thing...is to revive in the whole Church that positive tension, that yearning to announce Christ again to contemporary man.
Creative semantics is the key to contemporary government; it consists of talking in strange tongues lest the public learn the inevitable inconveniently early.
George Will
We need to remind ourselves that contemporary art is first of all a form of conceptual gymnastics, in which we learn to coexist with what we don't understand.
'Beatrice Cenci' was an amazing film. If it were released today it'd win Best Picture. It's so well done, it's so contemporary, and the filmmaking is so smart.
There has been a vast output of critical studies in contemporary poetry, some of them first rate, but I do not think that , as a rule, a poet should read them.
I feel that what I do is always contemporary with the society I'm living in... If I wanted to explain myself, that's how I'd explain myself: that I'm a diarist.
Most of my books are about contemporary subjects, and the world changes so fast that I'm lucky when events haven't overtaken the book I'm writing at the moment.
Most contemporary fiction sucks. It's intellectually dishonest, often morally dishonest. It's cheap and easy. It pretends to be deep but is really quite shallow.
Dale Peck
The big picture, I think, is that common ancestry is evidentially prior to natural selection in Darwin's theory and in contemporary evolutionary biology as well.
Elliott Sober
My influences were from Europe from between 1900 and 1945. My favorite artists were Egon Schiele or Edvard Munch. I wasn't interested in contemporary art at all.
Arnošt Lustig is one of the leading contemporary Czech fiction writers, and certainly the most important Jewish writer of Bohemia to have survived the Holocaust.
Josef Skvorecky
The boundaries between contemporary art and cinema are so rigid. It's unbelievable. The film critics don't know my artwork and the art world doesn't know my films.
An eastern contemporary, with a grain of wisdom in its wit, says that "when the whites win a fight, it is a victory, and when the Indians win it, it is a massacre.
I am aware of myself as a four-hundred-year-old woman, born in the captivity of a colonial, pre-industrial oral culture and living now as a contemporary New Yorker.
Bharati Mukherjee
I want to be able to do whatever I feel like doing and not worry about anything. Even when I was a kid, the only contemporary artist I listened to was Cyndi Lauper.
The denial of contemporary genius is the rule rather than the exception. No one counts the eagles in the nest, till there is a rush of wings; and lo! they are flown.
People are probably correct when they see me as the so-called Everyman. I'm attracted primarily to contemporary characters. I understand them and their frustrations.
The defining problem of contemporary television is trust: Can you believe what you see on television, does television treat people fairly, is it healthy for society?
The ultimate role of photography as a contemporary language of visual communication consists of its capacity to slow down our fast and chaotic way of reading images.
A contemporary poet has characterized this sense of the personality of art and of the impersonality of science in these words,-'Art is myself; science is ourselves. '
All great music is contemporary. If it's still alive and kicking, then it's contemporary. If it fades away, it was a period piece. It had its moment, and that was it.
I think doing period piece is easier, because after a certain distance, everybody is equal, I think. The relative contemporary is harder. I think that's the way it is.
The cacophony of contemporary popular culture makes it hard to discern the call of truth and wisdom. There is no area in which practicing asceticism is more important.
I am an architect. I try to feel the transparency in contemporary buildings and I try to understand the transparency in Zen poetry. I just want to mix all those things.
The task confronting contemporary man is to live with the hidden ground of his activities as familiarly as our literate predecessors lived with the figure minus ground.
Most of the really good literature I've read in my life was political, meaning it was important - about something going on in the history of the world - or contemporary.
Meeting and talking to the artist adds a special element to collecting contemporary art that makes the work an irreplaceable treasure rather than just another possession.
Ernest West Basden
In this tour around the world I was not interested in contemporary buildings because I had seen contemporary buildings actually until they came out of my ears in a sense.
Democracy is not a Beloved Republic really, and never will be. But it is less hateful than other contemporary forms of government, and to that extent deserves our support.
E. M. Forster
My priciple is, the artist shall put forth, humbly & lovingly, without bitterness, the very best & highest that is within him,utterly regardless of contemporary criticism.
Sidney Lanier
It's easy to say "This year in art sucked." After all, about 85 percent of all shows of contemporary art are bad. But 85 percent of all art made in the Renaissance was bad.
Although contemporary advertising is relatively young, it already has a considerable tradition. Each new ad is encountered against a background of thousands of earlier ads.
Guy Cook
For most of the movies that I've done, we've shot in a contemporary house, in contemporary clothes, speaking in a contemporary way. So, I really enjoy that. It really helps.
As he demonstrated with 'Juno' and 'Up in the Air,' Reitman has an uncanny knack among contemporary directors for tapping into the zeitgeist in dramatically satisfying ways.
I have a really amazing fan club, it's contemporary but it's a little bit old school. There's a lot of connection. I have a fan club president who really responds to people.
In 1967 there was no place for photography in a contemporary art gallery. It was almost impossible to get an art dealer to look at, let alone exhibit, anything photographic.
The findings in contemporary social sciences are helping us understand that we can find other ways to educate people and act against injustice and corruption in our society.
I have never understood, for instance, why some people see contemporary art as divided between 'painting' and 'conceptual art', as though this represented a genuine division.
[F]or contemporary judgment does not recognize that much depth of soul is needed to light up the picture drawn from contemptible life and elevate it into a pearl of creation...
If you look at the Olympic graphics for Mexico or Los Angeles, those programs don't look contemporary by today's eyes but they really look like they are of their place and time.
Michael Bierut
When I go to China I see many artists whose work reflects on aspects of contemporary popular culture but obviously the history of Western art is not part of their own tradition.
History, if thoroughly comprehended, furnishes something of the experience which a man would acquire who should be a contemporary of all ages and a fellow citizen of all peoples.
Philibert Joseph Roux
Love, according to our contemporary poets, is a privilege which two beings confer upon one another, whereby they may mutually cause one another much sorrow over absolutely nothing.
Under the color-blind ideology of the new racism, Blackness must be SEEN as evidence for the alleged color blindness that seemingly characterizes contemporary economic opportunity.
Patricia Hill Collins
Even here in California with more contemporary buildings. I have a real problem with the low doorframes. It's a curse! That's just another of the many problems I have to live with.
Jim Harrison is someone I always enjoy, one of the great contemporary writers. I like Tim Ferris' Big Boom Theory. I'm getting into a different kind of reading, not straight novels.
Whenever I read statistical reports, I try to imagine my unfortunate contemporary, the Average Person, who, according to these reports, has 0.66 children, 0.032 cars, and 0.046 TVs.
Kató Lomb
The history of Christianity, therefore, must be of concern to all who are interested in the record of man and particularly to all who seek to understand the contemporary human scene.
Kenneth Scott Latourette
I don't think there's any money to be made doing something that's that contemporary without having a spin on it. If there's a London riots film with zombies, that'd have more chance.
Michael Caton-Jones
Artists with a capital 'A' are at ease working in all areas of art, whether it is a contemporary abstract painting or work requiring methods and techniques of the Renaissance Masters.
Igor Babailov
It is not without reason that fame is awarded only after death. The cloud-dust of notoriety which follows and envelops the men who drive with the wind bewilders contemporary judgment.
While contemporary non-Evangelicals have virtually reduced faith to 'courageous ignorance,' Evangelicals have hardly been faithful in defending God's objective communication of truth.
Ronald H. Nash
Men are so charmed with valor that they have pleased themselves with being called lions, leopards, eagles and dragons, from the animals contemporary with us in the geologic formations.
Eugene Peterson's language makes the Bible exciting and strong, sweet, sharp, persuasive, painful, personal, contemporary, kind, and dramatic—and available to every reader of this age.
Walter Wangerin
The term 'quadrilateral' does not occur in the Wesley corpus – and more than once, I have regretted having coined it for contemporary use, since it has been so widely misconstrued
Albert Outler
There is a lack of context in contemporary education. And contemporary consideration - because we live in those interiorities so much. Especially young kids who live by surfing the Web.
Frederick Busch
The reason why new concepts in any branch of science are hard to grasp is always the same; contemporary scientists try to picture the new concept in terms of ideas which existed before.
Freeman Dyson
I think there is a general interest in films that deal with contemporary issues. Constructions of Iran, Islam, the Middle East as well as the U.S. itself are also of interest, it seems.
Mohammad Marandi
How does contemporary technology and culture changes our understanding of what it means to be human. What is our relationship with - and responsibilities towards - that which we create.
Patricia Piccinini
I was interested in opera and it seemed to me that the only possible theatre for contemporary opera would be television. So I started working towards a kind of television kind of opera.
Finding a master of the dark art of ninjutsu in modern westernized Japan seems as unlikely as finding an active practitioner of the magic of Merlin in contemporary industrialized England.
Stephen K. Hayes
In contemporary American culture, the religions are more and more treated as just passing beliefs - almost as fads - rather than as the fundaments upon which the devout build their lives.
Stephen L. Carter
The contemporary quarrel over church and state is not really about whether a wall of separation of church and state should exist or not... The real question is what does 'separation' mean?
James Davison Hunter
Very few people realize the enormous bulk of contemporary mathematics. Probably it would be easier to learn all the languanges of the world than to master all mathematics at present known.
W. W. Sawyer
I think the anti-intellectualism of a lot of contemporary fiction is a kind of despairing of literature's ability to be anything more than perfectly bound blog posts or transcribed sitcoms.
Sam's light-cycle, the car, and the jets are new of course, and other stuff. The new ones are sleeker and so contemporary, that if you could put them in a car design show they would hold up.
Critics often point to historical issues such as slavery, upon which many Christians did act inconsistently, in an effort to invalidate Christian participation in contemporary social issues.
H. Wayne House
Our world has changed for better or for worse. It is for us to find truth and beauty for today, constantly re-applying the truth of God's word to our own time and our contemporary situation.
Hans Rookmaaker
When I spoke at the 2012 Contemporary Women Writers' Conference in Taipei, I thought it offered an appropriate moment and site to announce my new manifesto10 and profession - to be a writer.
I have to face questions like, "Do I simply write the best text I possibly can? Do I specifically engage with contemporary issues? 'Do I consciously try to write something that is timeless?"
Contemporary feminism cut itself off from history and bankrupted itself when it spun its puerile, paranoid fantasy of male oppressors and female sex-object victims. Woman is the dominant sex.
What I wanted to try and figure out was, okay, in contemporary 21st century life the alienation between the self and the land around you or the self and even the urban landscape. You name it.
With any period piece I think the thing to do is forget that it's not contemporary when you're writing and to have the characters feel as much as possible like characters that you would know.
Steven Knight
Jax Cassidy is a brilliant new voice in contemporary fiction. Full of heat, seduction, and romance, her winning characters are sure to capture your heart and find a place on your keeper shelf.
Gemma Halliday
Beyond a narrow, elite audience, there is a pervasive sense from the side of the public that much contemporary art fails to connect - a failure not evident throughout centuries of earlier art.
John Walford
Just as all pop music is not simplistic, not all contemporary concert music is complex. Often what a person connects with goes much deeper than generalized issues of simplicity and complexity.
Michael Hersch
Like contemporary poetry , philosophy is one of those things, especially at the beginning stages, most people would rather do than study which is why most of what gets done is so impoverished.
I would love to say there was some contemporary artist who's work really got me thinking, but lately I have just been trying to sort out 20 years of garbage TV culture that is filling my brain.
The contemporary Japanese directors who are well-known in the West - say, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Takeshi Kitano, Naomi Kawase - are mostly unknown to Japanese, particularly of the younger generation.
I have always been obsessed by the company and making sure that the company is the most contemporary, the most modern of all the players, and delivering the most accurate service for our client.
Maurice Levy
Imagine my delight and awe when I discovered such a thing was a real genre - contemporary fantasy or urban fantasy. It was like having my birthday twice in one week and cookie dough for breakfast.
So, for a book set in 2006, Open City evades certain markers, while it embraces certain others. Julius doesn't use a smartphone, and he doesn't discuss contemporary US politics in any fine detail.
While I know that the beautiful, the spiritual and the sublime are suspect today, I have begun to stop resisting the constant urge to deny that beauty has a valid right to exist in contemporary art.
Ian Hornak
Of all the unexpected things in contemporary literature, this is among the oddest: that kids have an inordinate appetite for very long, very tricky, very strange books about places that don't exist.
Adam Gopnik
The dissolution of the pictorial into sheer texture, into apparently sheer sensation, into an accumulation of repetitions, seems to speak for and answer something profound in contemporary sensibility.
Clement Greenberg
With the destruction of history, contemporary events themselves retreat into a remote and fabulous realm of unverifiable stories, uncheckable statistics, unlikely explanations and untenable reasoning.
We need teacher educators who are hungry to learn about and implement contemporary approaches to teaching and learning in their own classrooms and who are reflective about their work with their students.
Carol Ann Tomlinson
Chronic boredom compensated or uncompensated constitutes one of the major psychopathological phenomena in contemporary technotronic society, although it is only recently that it has found some recognition.
There are two primary ways of studying Zen. Either an individual will enter into a Zen monastery and study with a Zen master there, or they will study with a Zen master who lives in the contemporary world.
I started reading contemporary fiction in college or right after college. It wasn't as if I was steeped in experimental minimalism when I was twelve or something. I was reading The Witch of Blackbird Pond.
Leni Zumas
Most contemporary novelists, especially the American and the French, are too subjective, mesmerized by private demons; theyre enraptured by their navels and confined by a view that ends with their own toes.
Aimee Parkison offers a distinct new voice to contemporary fiction. Her seductive stories explore childhood as a realm of sorrows, and reveal the afflictions of adults who emerge from this private geography.
Carol Anshaw
The technical history of modern harmony is a history of growth of toleration by the human ear of chords that at first sounded discordant and senseless to the main body of contemporary professional musicians.
The racial categories that are used in a given society (for example, in contemporary America) are biologically meaningless, but sometimes it turns out that a vernacular racial category has biological reality.
History is so fleeting and we are so busy consuming media and the contemporary culture, voraciously gobbling it up, that we have no room to look back ever, and our young people have a tough time looking back.
Ninety percent of [contemporary philosophers] see their principle task as that of beating religion out of men's heads. ... We are far from being able to provide scientific basis for the theological world view.
Kurt Gödel
The word "Guru", as it is used in the contemporary American scene, is someone who takes all your money and tells you what to do with your life. You assume no responsibility. A lot of people want that free ride.
I always wanted to be a journeyman actor. I wanted to be able to do comedy and drama, classical and contemporary. I like to do film and theater. And I pride myself on that diversity of being a journeyman actor.
That's the trouble with, I think, my - the contemporary read of my work. So many people just simply say, "These are pretty pictures of black boys." They're not really thinking about, like, what the whole thing is.
I wanted to make new works of very contemporary objects, which I thought was interesting because many of them are manufactured in China, but these objects are universal, they go across all languages, all cultures.
The Senior Moment has become the Google moment, and it has a much nicer, hipper, younger, more contemporary sound, doesn't it? By handling the obligations of the search mechanism, you almost prove you can keep up.
Nora Ephron
Nursing may be the oldest art, but in the contemporary world, it is also one of the most invisible. One of the most invisible arts, sciences, and certainly one of the most invisible parts of our health care system.
Suzanne Gordon
All ideas about identity, of course, fit perfectly into the social media wonderland we live in. They seem to really connect. There's a science-fiction aspect to our contemporary life. What's virtual, what's real...
Vijay Seshadri
I know that in some ways I operate from a kind of antiquated interest in imagery, while many contemporary poets are not so interested in imagery. I think part of it is my training, and just my visual sense of things.
Martha Ronk
I am new to superhero comics, though growing up I read Archie comics, religiously. I've been doing a lot of catching up, reading what's out there and it's been wonderful to see what's going on in contemporary comics.
When Glenda Jackson reveals that she has never been in a relationship with a man in which he hasn't raised his fists to her, I don't know whether this tells us more about the contemporary male or about Glenda Jackson.
Auberon Waugh
Eventually I realized that for contemporary philosophers conceptual analysis per se was an end in itself. For some, it was somehow supposed to lead to the truth about these phenomena, not just to tidy things up a bit.
Patricia Churchland
Snobbery is not merely a silly human weakness but something basic in the mentality of modern man-a symptom which reflects the general sickness, the dislocation of social and cultural values in contemporary civilization.
The psychic plane is clouded over by emotions and thoughts and the general dullness and malaise that develops in our contemporary world through the social conditioning that most individuals experience in the modern era.
There are a couple of specific things about the show [Into the Badlands]. We didn't want to do a contemporary show, which is always "Chinese cop comes to New York, teams up with racist cop, together they fight crime..."
Miles Millar
At what price do we get our news? The role of economics in defining the nature of contemporary journalism has never been better explained. A valuable, important book for those of us who watch, read, or listen to the news.
Marvin Kalb
All contemporary religions and churches, all and every kind of religious organization, Marxism has always viewed as organs of bourgeois reaction, serving as a defense of exploitation and the doping of the working-classes.
For inspiration you go to the archives, you go to things of the past, but you still need to be contemporary for today. You can never forget the time you're living in because the past is the past and it will never come back.
One is never completely satisfied. But I can say that I'm not dissatisfied. I've been very fortunate. I've been given some gifts - to take advantage of the contemporary times when I made movies. Gifts to make audiences laugh.
It's weird because I think of movies like Reality Bites or something, where, even though my life was nothing like that, I hadn't done something contemporary for a while, and it's easier. You do try to make something your own.
I make sure the events I do have the element of entertainment that Allah (swt) and his Prophet (pbuh) permit. Having said that, I would also like to make sure they are contemporary and our children can actually relate to them.
I don't think anyone listening to my music needs any special knowledge. They don't need to have a background in contemporary music. They don't need to go to new-music concerts all the time in order to be able to understand it.
Missy Mazzoli
Prose of the World is an enormously compelling and vivid study. The result is an ambitious, timely, and eloquent account of the relationship between early-twentieth-century fiction and the contemporary global novel in English.
Rebecca L. Walkowitz
My art gives contemporary art a juvenile-delinquent phase. Its self-made style gleefully trashes conventions of beauty and society while pick-pocketing from the coolest underground styles and beliefs of the previous centuries.
Steve Olson
I am delighted if people find that kind of sustenance in novels, but perhaps it's because they don't read the Scripture that they are comparing it to, which would perhaps provide deeper sustenance than many contemporary novels.
What need had the businessman to scribble or philosophize when he dominated the imagination of his time and the frantic materialism that was his principle of existence had become the haunting central figure in contemporary life?
I saw how you could get away with such a free-spirited, naturalistic sensibility in a mainstream Hollywood movie, and you could apply a lot of the skills of the '70s icons that I really admire to a contemporary, commercial movie.
The richness of our contemporary visual world must be seen as a danger. It is an overwhelming and oppressive world. A world that manifests itself fundamentally through the image is only a few steps from totalitarian manipulation.
Edmundo Desnoes
Euclid ... manages to obtain a rigorous proof without ever dealing with infinity, by reducing the problem [of the infinitude of primes] to the study of finite numbers. This is exactly what contemporary mathematical analysis does.
Lucio Russo
The traditional churches are having to transition into new methodologies and new ways of reaching people and they are starting to understand that and looking for ways they can increase their relevance to the contemporary society.
I have put [the word] "discoveries" in inverted commas because scientific results, perhaps as much at least as artistic achievements, are a product of contemporary taste, driven by momentary appetites rather than eternal verities.
Since graveyards are often built over older burial grounds, I assume Dolores Park was probably an Indian, (an Ohlone) graveyard before that. I think the fact that it has so many layers underneath the contemporary one intrigues me.
Stephen Vincent Benet
I think there are one or two things similar in Elizabethan English and contemporary Hebrew. This is not to say that every one of us Israeli writers is a William Shakespeare, but there is a certain similarity to Elizabethan English.
The contemporary memoir is playing an important role in at least just bringing certain relationships out into the open in American society, and also it's a place where the novel of development, the novel of consciousness, has gone.
Marco Roth
Ultimately our claim to know the one God only gains credence in the contemporary world as he demonstrates the divine presence through the way we live- through our lives as we connect our Christian belief with true Christian living.
Stanley J. Grenz
Every man, in judging of himself, is his own contemporary. He may feel the gale of popularity, but he cannot tell how long it will last. His opinion of himself wants distance, wants time, wants numbers, to set it off and confirm it.
I stopped appearing as Dracula in 1972 because in my opinion the presentation of the character had deteriorated to such an extent, particularly bringing him into the contemporary day and age, that it really no longer had any meaning.
Dance is so prominent, now more than it's been before, but I still feel like there's this void that needs to be filled that tells the story of a contemporary dancer who is in a company - I don't know, just that's my dream to do that.
Art is about asking questions and engaging a dialog. By challenging or investigating conventions contemporary art helps promote an on-going sense of discovery, contemplation, and understanding. I think these are all important things.
The artistic formulae wear thin quickly and yet daily the artist - when developing his own foundation - must enter his own time and the problems of other contemporary artists. Paths cross and the soil of time is starting to be turned.
To appeal to contemporary man to revert, in this twentieth century, to a pagan-like nature worship in order to restrain technology from further encroachment and devastation of the resources of nature, is a piece of atavistic nonsense.
Norman Lamm
What stuns me most about contemporary politics is not even that the system has been so badly corrupted by money. It is that so few people get the connection between their lives and what the bozos do in Washington and our state capitols.
Molly Ivins
I wrote a call to the contemporary Muslim conscience, saying to the ordinary people that we might not like the video or the cartoons, but that violence certainly isn't the right answer. I don't think laws are going to solve the problem.
The United States is such a potent political, cultural, and economic model in the evocation of the contemporary world, that to come here, select some elements from the prototype and rearrange them, that's really interesting artistically.
Bruno Dumont
Obviously there are pieces of classical music that are some of the most beautiful music ever written, for me anyway is a lot of classical or contemporary music, so it's a different kind of space that you enter when you're listening to it.
An aged painter cannot help but accept the fact that his work belongs in the past. Younger painters have leaped into the phenomenon called contemporary, where it would be foolish of me to try to enter. But I can claim my own phenomenon...
Joseph Plaskett
The main advantage of being a reviewer is that you read a lot. A lot of books get sent to you, and you have an amazing vantage point from which to observe what's going on in contemporary fiction - not only genre stuff, the whole spectrum.
By the age of nine I had a thorough knowledge of contemporary Polish literature as well as of foreign literature in Polish translation, and I began to write poems in honour of a lady of thirty years. Naturally, she knew nothing about them.
Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont
So however much time has passed since Legacy came out would also have transpired in the real world. So it will still be contemporary. So let's say if the Tron sequel comes out later, then four or five years have passed since the last movie.
For the majority of contemporary Americans, the essence of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness centers on a relentless personal quest to acquire, consume, to indulge, and to shed whatever constraints might interfere with those endeavors.
Andrew Bacevich
The problem of meaning today is the problem of how the diverse and superficially self-contradictory experiences of men can be put into a consistent picture that will provide contemporary man with a convincing basis from which to live and to act.
Carroll Quigley
The relation of photography and language is a principal site of struggle for value and power in contemporary representations of reality; it is the place where images and words find and lose their conscience, their aesthetic and ethical identity.
William J. Mitchell
I have difficulties with contemporary language. Big difficulties. I counted, you know, something like 160 words have disappeared from the English language because of the use of the word "like." "I'm like, he's like" - not "thought," not "as if ."
In an article on Bunyan lately published in the "Contemporary Review" - the only article on the subject worth reading on the subject I ever saw (yes, thank you, I am familiar with Macaulay's patronizing prattle about "The Pilgrim's Progress") etc.
I like to think there is something deep in our own world of reality that will create a dynamic balance between technology and human existence, the relationship between which has a decisive effect on contemporary cultural forms and social structure.
When seen in retrospect, fashions seem to express their era. Although it is more difficult to draw conclusions from contemporary clothes, the same principles which hold for the clothes of the past must hold for clothes of the present and the future.
James Laver
Schinkel was not arbitrary in his use of historical modes but rather eclectic in the best sense of the word. He could search the past for its conspicuous successes using them both freely and discursively as the basis for a contemporary architecture.
I can't think offhand of any American poets who have Mandelstam's urgency, but it's a different country and a different time, and I don't think it would make much sense to say that this is something that's "missing" from contemporary American poetry.
And one thing the void certainly can teach us is how to wait, how to become truly patient, and how to let go of superfluous intellectual baggage - all of which is a good lesson for hyper-agitated multi-tasking goal-focussed contemporary human beings.
George Pattison
I have always believed that there should be no subject about which one cannot make jokes, religion included. Clearly, one is always constricted by contemporary mores and trends because, after all, what one seeks above all is an appreciative audience.
Objective considerations of contemporary phenomena compel the conclusion that success or failure in competitive activities exhibits no tendency to be commensurate with innate capacity, but that a considerable element of the unpredictable must invaria.
Never allow the cross to lose it's centrality to the ministry of your church. I believe we ought to connect ancient truth to contemporary questions, but the ultimate source of hope for every problem we face in our lives is the cross where Jesus died.
Brandon Cox
Now I do not myself share that superstitious reverence for the beliefs of common sense which many contemporary philosophers profess. But I think that we must start from them, and that we ought to depart from them only when we find good reason to do so.
C. D. Broad
The grand delusion of contemporary liberals is that they have both the right and the ability to move their fellow creatures around like blocks of wood - and that the end results will be no different than if people had voluntarily chosen the same action
That's true but I think the contemporary problem that we are facing increasing numbers of black people and other people of color being thrown into a status that involves work in alternative economies and increasing numbers of people who are incarcerated.
It's interesting how as an artist you keep evolving, but if you can get into the contemporary art space, if the works are in institutions and museums, they keep living on and on and on, even if you move to a different space, that work is still operating.
Kalup Linzy
The relativism which is not willing to speak about truth but only about 'what is true for me' is an evasion of the serious business of living. It is the mark of a tragic loss of nerve in our contemporary culture. It is a preliminary symptom of death.
For me, even when I was pregnant, I wondered, Should we even have children if we're bringing them into this horrible, scary world? But I did have a child, despite these fears - or because of them - and these fears are both contemporary and as old as time.
Edan Lepucki
I may discuss contemporary cinema, how to shop at a mall without losing energy, how to use the power of mind to increase career and academic success, the Zen of sports, reincarnation, karma, sex, the experience of "suchness" or a new book by Stephen King.
Both history and contemporary data show that countries prosper more when there are stable and dependable rules, under which people can make investments without having to fear unpredictable new government interventions before these investments can pay off.
Contemporary research shows that happy people are more altruistic, more productive, more helpful, more likable, more creative, more resilient, more interested in others, friendlier, and healthier. Happy people make better friends, colleagues, and citizens.
Art is a form of understanding like philosophy and science and mathematics are an understanding but the difference is that art has the capacity to hold all these different things. It is the form of understanding that is best suited for the contemporary time.
Photography is, and has been since its conception, a fabulously broad church. Contemporary practice demonstrates that the medium can be a prompt, a process, a vehicle, a collective pursuit, and not just the physical end product of solitary artists' endeavors.
Charlotte Cotton
A learned historian declared to me of a contemporary, that the latter had appropriated his researches; he might, indeed, and he had a right to refer to the same originals; but if his predecessor had opened the sources for him, gratitude is not a silent virtue.
Isaac D'Israeli
In a world in which stylistic innovation is no longer possible, all that is left is to imitate dead styles... Contemporary or postmodernist art... will involve the necessary failure of art and the aesthetic, the failure of the new, the imprisonment in the past.
Fortunately I don't want to be part of the mainstream. When I see a Kiki Smith work, for example, she's very contemporary, and I feel a lot of emotion in each of her pieces; I think she understands our time, and she makes really interesting art because of that.
A contemporary or near-future book is much harder because you can't fake the facts. There are people alive who know much more than you do about the subject. You have to really have your research together - and of course no one can know everything about a topic.
The rush to books and universities is like the rush to the public house. People want to drown their realization of the difficulties of living properly in this grotesque contemporary world, they want to forget their own deplorable inefficiency as artists in life.
Contemporary architects tend to impose modernity on something. There is a certain concern for history but it's not very deep. I understand that time has changed, we have evolved. But I don't want to forget the beginning. A lasting architecture has to have roots.
Expecting a novel to bear the weight of our whole disturbed society""to help solve our contemporary problems""seems to me a peculiarly American delusion. To write sentences of such authenticity that refuge can be taken in them: isn't this enough? Isn't it a lot?
We can certainly see contemporary examples of people who radically change. As long you believe your spouse will never change and you keep telling yourself that, then you live with no hope. But if you understand that that's a myth, then you open up the door to hope.
Suddenly the intermedia shows are all over town..Theirs remains the most dramatic expression of the contemporary generation. The place where its needs and desperations are most dramatically split open. At the Plastic Inevitable it is All Here and Now and the Future.
Had the Bible been in clear straightforward language, had the ambiguities and contradictions been edited out, and had the language been constantly modernised to accord with contemporary taste it would almost certainly have been, or become, a work of lesser influence.
Sometimes I imagine that there's a binary division going on in contemporary practice that has to do with chromatic versus diatonic. I notice that I tend to listen in a diatonic sense, that I register a pitch as a member of a diatonic scale, even in a non-tonal context.
It's impossible to separate our contemporary practice of the death penalty from our history around race and slavery, and specifically, lynching. Where lynchings were happening 100 years ago is where executions are happening today. And that's a haunting and eerie thing.
In my book, the Arab Awakening, I talk about the fact that we have to move from this. All the contemporary ideologies of political Islam have been based on the nation state. The nation state is very problematic but I'm not sure if we have an alternative political model.
To understand what I am saying, you have to believe that dance is something other than technique. We forget where the movements come from. They are born from life. When you create a new work, the point of departure must be contemporary life -- not existing forms of dance.
Pina Bausch
The anti-globalization movement is one of the biggest globalized events of the contemporary world, people coming from everywhere, —Australia, Indonesia, Britain, India, Poland, Germany, South Africa—to demonstrate in Seattle or Quebec. What could be more global than that?
I was always obsessed with finding truly researched images to add authenticity, out of that came something totally contemporary and modern. Research is very key to my process because over and over again, reality provides more interesting images than you could have invented.
If any art form can accommodate contemporary culture, it's the novel. It's so malleable - it can incorporate essays, poetry, film. Maybe the challenge for the novelist is to stretch his art and his language, to the point where it can finally describe what's happening around him.
Each time I undertake to reread Virginia Woolf, I am somewhat baffled by the signature breathlessness and relentlessly "poetic" tone, the shimmering impressionism, so very different from the vivid, precise, magisterial (and often very funny) prose of her contemporary James Joyce.
Seat thyself sultanically among the moons of Saturn, and take high abstracted man alone; and he seems a wonder, a grandeur, and a woe. But from that same point, take mankind in mass, and for the most part, they seem a mob of unnecessary duplicates, both contemporary and hereditary.
A society which believes in a worthwhile future saves in the present so as to invest in the future. Contemporary Western society spends in the present and piles up debts for the future, ravages the environment, and leaves its grandchildren to cope with the results as best they can.
An effective proclamation of the Gospel in contemporary Western society will need to confront directly the widespread spirit of agnosticism and relativism which has cast doubt on reason's ability to know the truth, which alone satisfies the human heart's restless quest for meaning.
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