It is the misfortune of contemporary leaders, across the whole spectrum of Australian life, that the community's demand for strong leadership is… — Hugh Mackay Copy Share Image
I don't see boundaries between styles, such as modern or contemporary. I've collected each piece from a different experience or period of… — Carlos Miele Copy Share Image
“Kyle must have seen my panic, because when I looked up at him again, his jacket and shirt were off and he… — Christie Cote Copy Share Image
My work has been marginalized as far as the jazz-business complex is concerned, or the contemporary-music complex. — Anthony Braxton Copy Share Image
“My eyes refuse to let him leave, but he stands still holding my hand, lingering for as long as possible.” — Thomas Sweeney Copy Share Image
What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
Luckily for me, my father had impeccable taste. No contemporary collector was he. His treasure trove of comics included gems such as… — Jeff Kinney Copy Share Image
I don't decide where I live. My wife decides. She's a curator of contemporary art, and she works at an art museum,… — John Green Copy Share Image
Classical music is at odds with contemporary culture precisely because of its insistence on the tension between the bodily and intellectual, the… — Julian Johnson Copy Share Image
Like Russia's gangsterism and Bush's cronyism, contemporary Iraq is a creation of the fifty-year crusade to privatize the world. Rather than being… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
“I should walk away. That would be the right thing to do. It would be the smart thing. But I can't, because… — S. Elle Cameron Copy Share Image
Experience has taught me that the shallowest of communist platitudes contains more of a hierarchy of meaning than contemporary bourgeois profundity. — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
I like things that are kind of eclectic, when one thing doesn't go with another. That's why I love Rome. The town… — Giambattista Valli Copy Share Image
Given the lack of public skills in reading photographs, given that photographic content is sometimes buried in beauty, contemporary landscape photographers are… — Lucy R. Lippard Copy Share Image
Democracy in the contemporary world demands, among other things, an educated and informed people. — Elizabeth Bishop Copy Share Image
As I had visualized, 'Heroine' is shaping up to be a very contemporary film with a different premise and strata. This film,… — Madhur Bhandarkar Copy Share Image
Objective considerations of contemporary phenomena compel the conclusion that success or failure in competitive activities exhibits no tendency to be commensurate with… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Apparently, we're all in the frame," I heard Harry murmur somewhere behind me. And I whirled back to him. Innate, irrational anger… — Morana Blue Copy Share Image
I may discuss contemporary cinema, how to shop at a mall without losing energy, how to use the power of mind to… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Poles must understand history but we must also overcome it if it is obstructing our contemporary goals. — Donald Tusk Copy Share Image
Roberto Cavalli is a great designer. The Just Cavalli brand is very sexy, young and cool. Each collection is very contemporary and… — Georgia May Jagger Copy Share Image
I reckon that Stonehege was build by the contemporary equivalent of Microsoft, whereas Avebury was definitely an Apple circle. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Anyway I read more contemporary poetry than contemporary fiction so my mind goes first to a kind of crass "conceptualism" that repeats… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
You might argue that the history of contemporary art is a series of avant-garde movements, each new wave outraging the last. — Michael Scott Copy Share Image
All the spookiness comes from giving a contemporary anachronistic sense to terms whose historical meaning is lost to us. — Frederick C. Beiser Copy Share Image
