I remember a period where my publisher said to me, 'Look, your historical work is selling much better than your contemporary work,… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
Obviously, I love to do both contemporary and historical fiction. When a hint of a story grabs me, I try to go… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
'Beatrice Cenci' was an amazing film. If it were released today it'd win Best Picture. It's so well done, it's so contemporary,… — Eli Roth Copy Share Image
As he demonstrated with 'Juno' and 'Up in the Air,' Reitman has an uncanny knack among contemporary directors for tapping into the… — Lou Lumenick Copy Share Image
Ideology... is a kind of contemporary mythology, a realm which has purged itself of ambiguity and alternative possibility. — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
It was not noisy prejudice that caused the work of Mendel to lie dead for thirty years, but the sheer inability of… — Wilfred Trotter Copy Share Image
“I don’t know why Kate was trying to impress him, as far as I could see the guy had all the allure… — Sharon Sant Copy Share Image
Christians and Jews alike are the new exiles of the contemporary world, struggling with how to sing the Lord's song in a… — David Novak Copy Share Image
Most people don't like to be confronted with an actual fact-of-life because it's difficult to metabolize. A painting of a bowl of… — Adamo Macri Copy Share Image
I think there are one or two things similar in Elizabethan English and contemporary Hebrew. This is not to say that every… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
“You don’t get it, babe,” he said, still looking at the sky. “World War III already started.” She propped herself up on… — Slava Pilotoff Copy Share Image
Each form of the acting is different. I think it keeps your mind active. TV, film and theater are different disciplines, as… — Luke Evans Copy Share Image
“Many people are caught up with the toys of contemporary society. Because of great advancements in our culture, some have cultivated an… — A.W. Tozer Copy Share Image
The use of neuroscientific data to help resolve phenomenological questions is proving a common theme in much contemporary thinking about the mind.… — David Papineau Copy Share Image
We do not have any respect, let alone reverence, for the world of nature because we do not have any respect, let… — Philip Sherrard Copy Share Image
Well, I'm not sure, but of one thing I am certain: History judges one differently than contemporary observers, and so I think… — David Dinkins Copy Share Image
Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
The abstractness of modern art has to do with how much an enlightened mind rejects of the contemporary social order. — Robert Motherwell Copy Share Image
If I take a less defensive tone, I'd admit that I couldn't write today a very jazzy, contemporary look at America as… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
Perhaps there is no greater issue facing contemporary women than the choices they must make about balancing home and work. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
“peace was never at the forefront of my mind. a war waged inside of me, but i began to take joy in… — Mecca-Amirah Jackson Copy Share Image
It is a paradox in the contemporary world that in our desire for peace we must willingly give ourselves to struggle. — Linda Hogan Copy Share Image
I have never understood, for instance, why some people see contemporary art as divided between 'painting' and 'conceptual art', as though this… — Michael Craig-Martin Copy Share Image
It is easy to gain a definite notion of the furnishing of colonial houses from a contemporary and reliable source - the… — Alice Morse Earle Copy Share Image
Men are so charmed with valor that they have pleased themselves with being called lions, leopards, eagles and dragons, from the animals… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A lot of my work comes from what in Asia is called the 'mind of wonder.' There is not a lot of… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Aurelie Sheehan's absorbing stories have depth miles beneath their compelling surface. They radiate a wisdom, beauty and originality rare in contemporary fiction. — Frederic Tuten Copy Share Image
New materials are one of the great afflictions of contemporary art. Some artists confuse new materials with new ideas. — Sol LeWitt Copy Share Image
I like contemporary American literature and I like biographies and I like jazz and I like baseball and I like writers who… — Jonathan Frakes Copy Share Image
Just as all pop music is not simplistic, not all contemporary concert music is complex. Often what a person connects with goes… — Michael Hersch Copy Share Image
An eastern contemporary, with a grain of wisdom in its wit, says that "when the whites win a fight, it is a… — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
“I'm agnostic. By definition, I'm unsure of what to believe in, but I'm also borderline-capable of believing in anything and everything, or… — Lauren Lola Copy Share Image
Where names of people or places would mean little to a contemporary reader, I figured "translation errors" could create interesting new meanings. — Hal Duncan Copy Share Image
The anarch knows the rules. He has studied them as a historian and goes along with them as a contemporary. Wherever possible,… — Ernst Junger Copy Share Image
“Spider had that easy way about him that people who have never had anything bad happen to them seem to possess.” — Heidi R. Kling Copy Share Image
You see, the contemporary writer must write through his intimations of unease, while trying to elucidate them. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“This was what they’d been told all along in the army: “It’s us or them. War’s coming. No way around it.” And… — Slava Pilotoff Copy Share Image
I listen to both oldies and contemporary stations. I enjoy listening to current stuff because there's an energy to it that's inspiring. — Carole King Copy Share Image
Do we need recourse to a happier state before the law in order to maintain that contemporary gender relations and the punitive… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
Contemporary ramen is totally different than what most Americans think ramen should be. Ramen is not one thing; there are many, many… — David Chang Copy Share Image
