Our contemporary life is based on information that can change at any time. — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
Novels, except as aids to masturbation, play no part in contemporary life. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Gucci has always represented great design and contemporary lifestyle. — Marco Bizzarri Copy Share Image
The most difficult problems are naturally not involved in the search for forms for contemporary life. It is a question of working… — Alvar Aalto Copy Share Image
Even the best novelists are rarely congratulated on the quality of their observations about contemporary life. — Michelle Dean Copy Share Image
Love is temporary life is forever so live it to the fullest instead of wallowing in self pity and cradling a broken… — Kiki Jones Copy Share Image
I suppose in a way most of my characters are non-consumers, not terribly interested in all the little baubles and artifacts of… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
[Documentary photography] is unwittingly literary, because it is nothing other than an observation of contemporary life apprehended at the right moment by… — Pierre Mac Orlan Copy Share Image
A really Beautiful Sentence With a Very Wonderful Meaning I Need EveryThing 'Permanent' In a 'Temporary' Life. — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
One way or another, we all have to find what best fosters the flowering of our humanity in this contemporary life, and… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
I write about the trials and triumphs of contemporary life - and often the readers see themselves between the lines of the… — Karen Kingsbury Copy Share Image
My attempt has been really to, beyond making a record of contemporary life, which is what you inevitably do, is trying to… — John Updike Copy Share Image
“The materialistic and selfish quality of contemporary life is not inherent in the human condition. Much of what appears ‘natural’ today dates… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
There is much to be said in favor of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The public examination of homosexuality in our contemporary life is still so coated with distasteful moral connotations that even a reviewer is… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
To overcome the anxieties and depressions of contemporary life, individuals must become independent of the social environment to the degree that they… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
In the creation of a garden, the architect invites the partnership of the Kingdom of Nature. In a beautiful garden the majesty… — Luis Barragan Copy Share Image
I looked around at what my colleagues were doing, and asked myself, 'What relationship has it with what's going on?' I found… — Martin Parr Copy Share Image
To understand what I am saying, you have to believe that dance is something other than technique. We forget where the movements… — Pina Bausch Copy Share Image
The psychological dangers through which earlier generations were guided by the symbols and spiritual exercises of their mythological and religious inheritance, we… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“In lots of ways, television purveys and enables dreams, and most of these dreams involve some sort of transcendence of average daily… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“Our disenchantment of the night through artificial lighting may appear, if it is noticed at all, as a regrettable but eventually trivial… — Robert Macfarlane Copy Share Image
“To apply a passage, therefore, you need to see what your passage reveals about God and the way people responded and lived… — Haddon W. Robinson Copy Share Image
But perhaps more important, as someone wishing to make a comment or two about contemporary life and values, I don't have to… — Sidney Poitier Copy Share Image
“All fiction is metaphor. Science fiction is metaphor. What sets it apart from older forms of fiction seems to be its use… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“And so it is that in order to speak of our own times, I have had to make a long detour, by… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“Life is a funny thing. We claim it to be our own; but the truth is, it's not. It belongs to something… — Leanne Waters Copy Share Image
“How are you coming with your home library? Do you need some good ammunition on why it's so important to read? The… — Earl Nightingale Copy Share Image
“suicide and scandal followed in his wake. The British weekly, the Sunday Referee (March 10, 1935) asked the question that over half… — Christopher Hyatt Copy Share Image
“Men speak of God’s love for man… but if providence does not come in this hour, where is He then? My conclusion… — Daniel S. Fletcher Copy Share Image
“...friendship stands as a small affront to the total control of all things by mass entertainment and mass media and mass education… — Anthony Esolen Copy Share Image
“Something is profoundly wrong with the way we live today. For thirty years we have made a virtue out of the pursuit… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
“The great mistake of contemporary life is that we have made such a virtue of intellectual growth while almost totally ignoring the… — Joshua Loth Liebman Copy Share Image
“Polytheism may be more consonant with contemporary life, its mixed populations, and its recognition of psychic complexity and interdependence, than a rigorous… — Page duBois Copy Share Image
I think that if the novel's task is to describe where we find ourselves and how we live now, the novelist must… — Richard Powers Copy Share Image
All ideas about identity, of course, fit perfectly into the social media wonderland we live in. They seem to really connect. There's… — Vijay Seshadri Copy Share Image