Commercials are so contemporary and up to date that when you're involved in that visual world, you can't really go backwards. — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
“And then— He leans in. Not much. Just slightly. Just enough that if she moved even an inch— Their lips would touch.” — Amelia Frostwood Copy Share Image
So much of contemporary crime fiction is painful to read and obsessed with violence, particularly against women, and I can't read that. — Donna Leon Copy Share Image
I guess maybe I try to make movies that are closer to real life than are many Hollywood movies. But I still… — Alexander Payne Copy Share Image
It's not just what Christian fiction lacks I appreciate - it's what it offers. The variety is vast: contemporary, historical, suspense, mysteries,… — Randy Alcorn Copy Share Image
No, it's interesting to remake a film for the contemporary audience today. I think it's a good idea; it needs to respect… — Dario Argento 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
I wanted to make new works of very contemporary objects, which I thought was interesting because many of them are manufactured in… — Michael Craig-Martin Copy Share Image
Any of these contemporary war situations, whether civilian or soldier on either side - that's what I was interested in. The people… — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image
I always listen to all kinds of different music from different years. I listen to the contemporary, but once in a while… — Olga Kurylenko Copy Share Image
At what price do we get our news? The role of economics in defining the nature of contemporary journalism has never been… — Marvin Kalb 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
We can no better imagine what will be happening on the moon 500 years from now than Columbus could imagine contemporary Manhattan.… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
These wealthy people were very interested in contemporary music. They wanted to help diffuse it and get it to be known to… — Elliott Carter Copy Share Image
A sort of war of revenge on the intellect is what, for some reason, thrives in the contemporary social atmosphere. — Wyndham Lewis Copy Share Image
Imagine my delight and awe when I discovered such a thing was a real genre - contemporary fantasy or urban fantasy. It… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
The cacophony of contemporary popular culture makes it hard to discern the call of truth and wisdom. There is no area in… — Rod Dreher 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 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
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 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
“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
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
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
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
“I think I knew from the first moment I met her, she would be the one to replace me. I didn't think… — Megan Duke Copy Share Image
Our contemporary Tories prefer the term 'ordered liberty' to 'freedom'. The word 'freedom' scares them; it has too much of a paleolithic… — Edward Abbey 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
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
Sometimes I think that I stay young and in touch with contemporary culture because of my children's interests. I'm so lucky to… — Polixeni Papapetrou Copy Share Image
A sad fact of life lately at the Museum of Modern Art is that when it comes to group shows of contemporary… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
