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
Contemporary social democracy is what I believe is the right concept. — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
Imprisoning philosophy within the professionalizations and specializations of an institutionalized curriculum, after the manner of our contemporary European and North American culture,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I actually was a ballet dancer - I studied ballet from three until 13 - but like very seriously, that's what I… — Solange Knowles Copy Share Image
I abandoned the extraterrestria l hypothesis in 1967 when my own field investigations disclosed an astonishing overlap between psychic phenomena and UFOs… — John A. Keel Copy Share Image
I'm not at all contemporary, not even modern, and the fact that I would be so quaintly attracted to that wrestling rule… — John Irving Copy Share Image
One of the challenges with period costumes is, on a technical level, making the scale of different periods work on contemporary bodies.… — Colleen Atwood Copy Share Image
women's entry into the public sphere can be seen not merely as the result of contemporary economic pressures, the high rate of… — Sally Helgesen Copy Share Image
In the contemporary world where things fall apart, and the centre cannot hold, you have to imagine a community where there is… — John Green Copy Share Image
“From my new release, Cry for Me. This is Bryen talking. "Stop it, T! I knew; my God I predicted you would… — Toni Mariani Copy Share Image
I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
art is the most general condition of the Past in the present. ... Perhaps no work of art is art. It can… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Most contemporary novelists, especially the American and the French, are too subjective, mesmerized by private demons; theyre enraptured by their navels and… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
With the destruction of history, contemporary events themselves retreat into a remote and fabulous realm of unverifiable stories, uncheckable statistics, unlikely explanations… — Guy Debord Copy Share Image
“A nation forgetting its own laughter is in a sad state of affairs” — Sherry Marie Gallagher Copy Share Image
"Contemporary art" for me is a kind of historical term that describes the 40 years between the Berlin Wall going up and… — Liam Gillick Copy Share Image
(...) contemporary art has become a kind of alternative religion for atheists. (...) For many art world insiders and art aficionados of… — Sarah Thornton Copy Share Image
The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded upon the spirituality of work. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
As contemporary history reminds us we are human to the extent that we are able to chose between alternatives. — John G. D. Clark Copy Share Image
There's nothing easy or simple or even entertaining (in our contemporary American sense of that word) in disciplining our minds to "see"… — Roger E. Olson Copy Share Image
Suddenly contemporary Christianity sales pitches don't seem adequate anymore. Ask Jesus to come into your heart. Invite Jesus to come into your… — David Platt Copy Share Image
A great reformation and revival-it will happen the same way the early Christians conquered Rome. Their program of conquest consisted largely of… — Douglas Wilson Copy Share Image
Whenever I read a contemporary literary novel that describes the world we're living in, I wait for the science fiction tools to… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
What people don't understand is that my dad isn't up on the contemporary music scene. He's been a legend for decades and… — Alexa Ray Joel Copy Share Image
