“It’s late and most of the clerks are at home in their beds, dreaming of swimming in pools filled with real money.” — Carla H Krueger Copy Share Image
In high school I was drawn to the study of literature, poetry Shakespeare, contemporary fiction, drama, you name it - I read… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I come from an African Caribbean background. I've been influenced by a reggae church music style, contemporary gospel, and rock all fused… — Laura Mvula Copy Share Image
I found that a lot of people ridiculed contemporary art. I decided I wanted to be involved in art everybody could understand. — Jason Blum Copy Share Image
Holding on to some of your uniqueness is the trick instead of surrendering it at the Academy of Contemporary We're Gonna Make… — Bill Bruford Copy Share Image
The music that I've made in the past has had strong contemporary country roots, but I think moving on in music, I… — Jennette McCurdy Copy Share Image
I love contemporary North American fiction and short fiction. My favorite writer is Jonathan Franzen, and my favorite writers of short fiction… — Emily Perkins Copy Share Image
The loss of national identity is the greatest defeat a nation can know, and it is inevitable under the contemporary form of… — Slobodan Milosević Copy Share Image
I think it has other roots, has to do, in part, with a general anxiety in contemporary life... nuclear bombs, inequality of… — Leonard Baskin Copy Share Image
I was a regular kind of academic music student. I was at Juilliard. I had to study all the contemporary music of… — Philip Glass Copy Share Image
“I don’t think I’ve ever referred to any girl I dated as my girlfriend. I think that would freak me out. Even… — Daniel Amory Copy Share Image
In Australia I was seen as somebody who did only very modern, contemporary stuff. Then as soon as I went overseas I… — Frances O'Connor Copy Share Image
“He speaks in that strange sports talk, telling me about the start of the new season and asks if I follow baseball.… — Gwenn Wright Copy Share Image
When Glenda Jackson reveals that she has never been in a relationship with a man in which he hasn't raised his fists… — Auberon Waugh Copy Share Image
All contemporary religions and churches, all and every kind of religious organization, Marxism has always viewed as organs of bourgeois reaction, serving… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
“What could I offer the local bad boy except my livelihood? Oh, I know. My body or my planes! Why didn't I… — Sharon K. Garner Copy Share Image
I read everything. I've always got a book on the go and I'm really nerdy about it, I get through books and… — Rebecca Hall Copy Share Image
“ “You’ll have to excuse my shock. When the most gorgeous woman I’ve ever seen tells me she’s a virgin… I think… — R. Matthews Copy Share Image
I was interested in opera and it seemed to me that the only possible theatre for contemporary opera would be television. So… — Robert Ashley Copy Share Image
The leaders of the future will be those who dare to claim their irrelevance in the contemporary world as a divine vocation... — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My favorite composers are the ones that tell the story. I love Wagner. I love Mahler. Prokofiev. The programmatic music. I listen… — Patti LuPone Copy Share Image
There is a lack of context in contemporary education. And contemporary consideration - because we live in those interiorities so much. Especially… — Frederick Busch Copy Share Image
Contemporary art photography, or, more specifically, what I would term mainstream art photography, represents for the most part the mining of an… — Abigail Solomon-Godeau Copy Share Image
“We're enveloped in pitch black. "Wait here," I whisper. "Are you getting your ax?" "Handcuffs." "Kinky. But, okay, I'll try it.” — Stephanie Perkins Copy Share Image
The U.S. corporate media, otherwise known as the "free press," is that hollow pillar on which contemporary American democracy rests. — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“He now realized that right and wrong were intertwined notions. His arms could not differentiate between just and unjust causes. They only… — Roy L. Pickering Jr Copy Share Image
I think I will just use guitar as backing. I'm not doing a traditional folk thing, but a contemporary thing-my own version… — Cat Stevens Copy Share Image
On the one hand, we had great filmic spectacles that brought in big audiences, adults as well as primary and secondary school… — Andrzej Wajda Copy Share Image
Jim Harrison is someone I always enjoy, one of the great contemporary writers. I like Tim Ferris' Big Boom Theory. I'm getting… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
The Democratic Party's rigidly pro-choice stance is one of the more unyielding positions in contemporary American politics. — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
I don't see boundaries between styles, such as modern or contemporary. I've collected each piece from a different experience or period of… — Carlos Miele Copy Share Image
The big picture, I think, is that common ancestry is evidentially prior to natural selection in Darwin's theory and in contemporary evolutionary… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
During my career I've enjoyed re-invigorating and contextualizing classic characters that are relatable to contemporary audiences. — David S. Goyer Copy Share Image
I'm drawn to making movies about contemporary life. The reason I choose institutions is because they provide a limit, a boundary. — Frederick Wiseman Copy Share Image
My mother was a classical pianist and my stepfather was an industrialist who was passionate about composing contemporary music. — Carla Bruni Copy Share Image
The difference between a contemporary liberal and a socialist is that to a liberal the most beautiful word in the English language… — John McCarthy Copy Share Image
But, number one, I think traditional noir doesn't work in contemporary storytelling because we don't live in that world anymore — Brian De Palma Copy Share Image
Like contemporary poetry, philosophy is one of those things, especially at the beginning stages, most people would rather do than study -… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
I'm about fifty years behind as far as my preferences go and I must say that the poets who excite me most… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
I have no doubt about a photographer in particular and a digital artist in general having become contemporary icons. — Nikolay Semyonov Copy Share Image
