“Contemporary' was in those days [1953] synonymous with 'modern' as it had not been before and is not now [1977].” — A.S. Byatt Copy Share Image
the backlash convinced the public that women's 'liberation' was the true contemporary American scourge - the source of an endless laundry list… — Susan Faludi Copy Share Image
The work that lasts over time is the work which still speaks to us when all contemporary interest in that work is… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“Don't compete with your friends to win a date with few beautiful girls, but compete to win few beautiful goals.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
I started reading contemporary fiction in college or right after college. It wasn't as if I was steeped in experimental minimalism when… — Leni Zumas 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
Far too many young people today have no spiritual roots. The've been deprived of values by an agnostic, contemporary culture. — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
The contemporary church is so often a weak, ineffectual voice with an uncertain sound. It is so often the arch supporter of… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
BERTRAND RUSSELL, The Philosophy of Logical Atomism We've associated that word philosophy with academic study that in its own way has gotten… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Literacy is part of everyday social practice - it mediates all aspects of everyday life. Literacy is always part of something else… — David Barton Copy Share Image
The primary goal of collectivism - of socialism in Europe and contemporary liberalism in America - is to enlarge governmental supervision of… — George Will Copy Share Image
I love contemporary poetry because it moves between what we call poetry and what we call philosophy. It joins these fields and… — Etel Adnan Copy Share Image
Feminist education — the feminist classroom — is and should be a place where there is a sense of struggle, where there… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
I don't know much about contemporary music. I do have an iPod but I listen to a lot of old blues. I… — Robert Pattinson Copy Share Image
Suddenly the intermedia shows are all over town..Theirs remains the most dramatic expression of the contemporary generation. The place where its needs… — Jonas Mekas 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
I mean the public likes it more in Europe than they do here because the state supported organizations have felt that playing… — Elliott Carter Copy Share Image
'Don't Look Back' is my first YA contemporary mystery/thriller. It's been described as 'Black Swan' meets 'Pretty Little Liars'. — Jennifer Armentrout Copy Share Image
There are two primary ways of studying Zen. Either an individual will enter into a Zen monastery and study with a Zen… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The problem, when comparing contemporary television to television in 1974, is that TV has become not just bad but sad. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Commercial rock 'n' roll music is a brutalization of the stream of contemporary Negro church music an obscene looting of a cultural… — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
Maybe people who aren't too interested in period pieces will be now because 'Bridgerton' is so contemporary, so modern. — Claudia Jessie Copy Share Image
There are a number of contemporary playwrights whom I admire enormously, but that's not at all the same thing as being influenced. — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
“Jax Cassidy is a brilliant new voice in contemporary fiction. Full of heat, seduction, and romance, her winning characters are sure to… — Gemma Halliday Copy Share Image
The artists could be dead, but some of them are not so distant from us, and make us feel as if they… — Yasumasa Morimura Copy Share Image
“Om is that God of love. Like a loving mother Om cleans us of our clutters collected through many incarnations.” — Banani Ray Copy Share Image
In fact, of course, I hold that propositions that contemporary philosophers would properly count as 'empirical' can be necessary and be known… — Saul Kripke Copy Share Image
When I go to China I see many artists whose work reflects on aspects of contemporary popular culture but obviously the history… — Michael Craig-Martin Copy Share Image
Sam's light-cycle, the car, and the jets are new of course, and other stuff. The new ones are sleeker and so contemporary,… — Daniel Simon 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
“I looked in the mirror and realized that I was already dead. I let you kill me one piece at a time,… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
He had a stellar talent. I not only lost a contemporary in the death of Robert E. Howard. The world lost a… — Murray Leinster Copy Share Image
The term ‘quadrilateral’ does not occur in the Wesley corpus – and more than once, I have regretted having coined it for… — Albert Outler Copy Share Image
“Sometimes our balance has to be upset and our course reset in order to help us navigate to our final destination. This… — Ella Dominguez Copy Share Image
“What happened tonight won't change a thing." "You're mistaken, Lila. Everything started changing the moment we met.” — Stephanie Witter Copy Share Image
Artists with a capital 'A' are at ease working in all areas of art, whether it is a contemporary abstract painting or… — Igor Babailov Copy Share Image
After closely examining my conscience, I venture to state that in my historical novels I intended the content to be just as… — Lion Feuchtwanger Copy Share Image
Most dystopian, classic and contemporary, paints a future world that puts a twist on present society - a future world that could… — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
My priciple is, the artist shall put forth, humbly & lovingly, without bitterness, the very best & highest that is within him,utterly… — Sidney Lanier Copy Share Image