If contemporary literary fiction doesn't read a bit like science fiction then it's probably not all that contemporary, is it — Warren Ellis Copy Share Image
it's a rare day when she speaks in anything but platitudes--all those exhausted phrases and hand-me-down ideas that cram the dump sites… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
This is a grave danger: the stoppage of information between the parts of the planet. Contemporary science knows that such stoppage is… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Pat Benatar might need a rock band, but I can just sit with a blues guitar for an hour and a half… — Bonnie Raitt Copy Share Image
“The war didn’t break everything. It just kept unraveling afterward. The men dragged it back home with them...” — Slava Pilotoff Copy Share Image
I see contemporary violence as a kind of sardonic response to the promise of consumer fulfilment in America. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
No philosopher understands his predecessors until he has re-thought their thought in his own contemporary terms. — Anonymous 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
I looked around at what my colleagues were doing, and asked myself, 'What relationship has it with what's going on?' I found… — Martin Parr Copy Share Image
Every man, in judging of himself, is his own contemporary. He may feel the gale of popularity, but he cannot tell how… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“Lacing my fingers through his, I studied them. His fingers were so much longer than mine, and I envisioned what those fingers… — Victoria H. Smith 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 a contemporary artist with a bit of an unexpected background. I was in my 20s before I ever went to an… — Shea Hembrey Copy Share Image
Not a lot of contemporary fiction is written about brothers and sisters. Salinger's Franny and Zooey was an inspiration for me. In… — K. M. Soehnlein Copy Share Image
“My mouth dropped open, because even if it wasn't my best friend, I knew the guy who was presently rubbing the short… — Stephanie Witter Copy Share Image
There's a bit of a new guard of contemporary classical musicians in New York, and we play a lot of different kinds… — Caroline Shaw Copy Share Image
Sex annihilates identity, and the space given to sex in contemporary novels is an avowal of the absence of character. — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
The history of the development of contemporary writing in Vancouver from 1946 to 1960 is pretty largely a one-man show, and that… — Earle Birney Copy Share Image
My parents met in music school, and my father was a music professor and conductor. Growing up, we always had classical and… — Sara Zarr Copy Share Image
“His grip on my shoulder tightens. His other hand behind my head caresses me softly and I sigh. "Touch me, Skye." His… — Stephanie Witter Copy Share Image
What really concerns me is for Christians to understand the fundamentals of evangelism in a way that is helpful in the contemporary… — Mark Dever Copy Share Image
Underground electronic music is art - fundamentally it's based on contemporary art, culture, dance, and real music. If you look at EDM,… — Seth Troxler Copy Share Image
Quite a lot of our contemporary culture is actually shot through with a resentment of limits and the passage of time, anger… — Rowan Williams Copy Share Image
[Bob] Dylan is a contemporary Don Quixote, at once besotted by the promise of America and yet also undermining it. — Jay Michaelson Copy Share Image
The Corporate impulse for human uniformity instills shame at difference and, thus, the contemporary zeal for privacy. — John Perry Barlow Copy Share Image
“I dislike a great deal of contemporary poetry — all of the past you read is usually quite great — but it… — Frank O'Hara Copy Share Image
I think we'll still be a family restaurant, we'll be contemporary, we'll be lifestyle, we won't be old, we won't be 60… — Jim Cantalupo Copy Share Image
“A laugh jumps out of my mouth, surprising me. I can’t even remember the last time I laughed and it puts me… — Nyrae Dawn Copy Share Image
The future is not so interesting for me because the future doesn't exist. I am really focused on the contemporary. — Alessandro Michele Copy Share Image
If there is one characteristic more than others that contemporary public worship needs to recapture it is this awe before the surpassingly… — Henry Sloane Coffin Copy Share Image
The engine of ancient society was religion but the engine of contemporary society, as I see it, is advertising. — Kit Williams Copy Share Image
If we wish to discuss knowledge in the most highly developed contemporary society, we must answer the preliminary question of what methodological… — Jean-Francois Lyotard Copy Share Image
“I look into his sorrowless eyes and a door in my heart blows open. And when we kiss, i see that on… — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
I hope I'm not implying role of contemporary poet for myself, although there's a kind of resonant paradigm. It's traditionally a difficult… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
It's the contemporary woman that movies don't know what to do with, other than bathe her in a bridal glow in romantic… — James Wolcott Copy Share Image
The boundaries between contemporary art and cinema are so rigid. It's unbelievable. The film critics don't know my artwork and the art… — Agnes Varda Copy Share Image
Artist - musicians, painters, writers, poets, always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around… — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
“I cannot believe I have been duped, not once but twice. My three years gaining a degree in psychology was clearly a… — Susan Lodge Copy Share Image
“What was the point? What is the point in love, and promises of it, when it can just jump from one person… — Holly Bourne Copy Share Image
Small changes can magnifiy. The possibility of interpersonal communication has increased substantially with contemporary technology. But as compared with the major changes,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image