Catchphrases flourish in contemporary American English.

...Venice has been the living future of contemporary American history since its inception.

— Liam Neeson

A lot of contemporary American culture makes its way to this county. Cuba is not some gray, isolated backwater. This is a happening place.

— Assata Shakur

“Although relatively more open to same-sex unions, contemporary American culture nevertheless bristles with a need to categorize human eroticism, a force that by its…

— Siri Hustvedt

The contemporary American novelist benefits in a way from being ignored. It makes you angrier and makes you want to go into all of…

— Colum McCann

The contemporary American novelist benefits in a way from being ignored. It makes you angrier and makes you want to go into all of…

— Colum McCann

This would seem to be a truism in contemporary American politics: The electorate opts for serious leaders, but almost always men who are able…

— Alex Wagner

The dominant mood of contemporary American culture is the self-celebration of the peasantry.

— William A. Henry III

I guess maybe I try to make movies that are closer to real life than are many Hollywood movies. But I still try to…

— Alexander Payne

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…

— Christian Wiman

Contemporary American psychiatrist It is a happy talent to know how to play.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I don't think there's a defined contemporary American musical, do you?

— Harold Prince

I like contemporary American literature and I like biographies and I like jazz and I like baseball and I like writers who write about…

— Jonathan Frakes

Mother's interest in contemporary American artists emerged during the 1920s.

— David Rockefeller

The most underrated of all contemporary American writers of fiction.

— William March

The North American intellectual tradition began, I maintain, in the encounter of British Romanticism with assertive, pragmatic North American English - the Protestant plain…

— Camille Paglia