Creativity is never too contrived.

For the greater beauty of the instrument, the balls representing the planets are to be of considerable bigness; but so contrived, that they may…

— David Rittenhouse

If anyone can crack the publicity nut and figure out how to not come across hammy and contrived, I'd love to talk to them.

— Gale Harold

“All fiction is to some degree contrived. If it is not contrived, then it actually happened, therefore making it a stolen idea. Ideas and…

— Connor de Bruler

Great as the planning were for the dinner, the lot was so contrived that not a soul in the house be supposed to be…

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

Personality is everything that's false in a human: everything that's been added on to him and contrived.

— Sam Shepard

I'm a socially concerned citizen of India. I have strong views on issues of social and political relevance. But it's very difficult to voice…

— Sonam Kapoor

If a character's suddenly spouting information that's supposed to bring you up to date, it can seem artificial or contrived.

— Naveen Andrews

I feel that if you made your writing too contrived to meet the market, it wouldn't be any good.

— Cathy Marie Buchanan

I don't know if it's because my sensitivity is through the roof, but I can't stand contrived dialogue anymore.

— Jeff Baena

Your look shouldn't be contrived.

— Leigh Lezark

I just wanted to keep consistent and keep true to America and not seem contrived. I didn't want to seem contrived at all with…

— Will Champlin

You know as a scientist that both were developed completely independently of each other in the laboratories. And only afterward were the political situations…

— E. P. Thompson

The contrived language and the flattering attitude rarely come with the virtue.

— Confucius

Early on, I had a girlfriend come see me, and she was like, 'Yeah, it was good, but you were funny at a dining…

— Ari Shaffir

My records do not require a lot of thought of 'What is this?' and 'What is that?' That would be too contrived for me.

— Van Morrison