While I appreciate horror movies, I'd love the opportunity to do something transformative, especially because people see me as contemporary. There's a… — Ari Graynor Copy Share Image
Few people in contemporary art demonstrate much curiosity. The majority spend their days blathering on, rather than trying to work out why… — Charles Saatchi Copy Share Image
“When Grant Blue reaches me, he bends his head down close enough that I can smell the soap and promise on his… — Isobel Irons Copy Share Image
So in Jewry we recognise a contemporary universal anti-social phenomenon, which has reached its present pitch through a process of, historical development… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
I can't think offhand of any American poets who have Mandelstam's urgency, but it's a different country and a different time, and… — Christian Wiman Copy Share Image
The weirdest thing I've been fascinated with nowadays is the new contemporary country music, which to me sounds like very strange '70s… — Ryan Adams Copy Share Image
Eclecticism is the degree zero of contemporary general culture: one listens to reggae, watches a western, eats McDonald's food for lunch and… — Jean-Francois Lyotard Copy Share Image
The psychic plane is clouded over by emotions and thoughts and the general dullness and malaise that develops in our contemporary world… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The God content of the past no longer sustains the contemporary spirit. We sense that our only hope is to journey past… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
Plotinus, when he thinks about mind or intellect, the Greek word is 'nous', he thinks about something that's very different, it's much… — Peter Adamson Copy Share Image
That President Mohammad Khatami's policies have been blocked is the bitterest incident in the contemporary Iranian history. This means that the wishes… — Abdolkarim Soroush Copy Share Image
You know, in America, Christian fundamentalism vs. science. You know, be it teaching Darwinian evolutionary theory or stem cell res- You know,… — Rachel Weisz Copy Share Image
Somebody who only reads newspapers and at best books of contemporary authors looks to me like an extremely near-sighted person who scorns… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The reason Buddhism can be so naturalised is because, stripped of its supernatural elements, its core teachings can be giving a sound,… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
In one way, it is this sense of order and also love that, I think, really saved Eleanor Roosevelt's life. And in… — Blanche Wiesen Cook Copy Share Image
The fact that fairy tales remain a literary underdog-undervalued and undermined-even as they shape so many popular stories, redoubles my certainty that… — Kate Bernheimer Copy Share Image
We really must understand that the lust for affluence in contemporary society is psychotic. It is psychotic because it has completely lost… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
One of those blocks (that prevent the 'Middle East from entering the mainstream of modernity') is the orthodox tenet that the Koran… — Arnold Beichman Copy Share Image
The rush to books and universities is like the rush to the public house. People want to drown their realization of the… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
I admire American literature, both contemporary and classic - 'Moby-Dick' is just about the best book in the world - and I… — Per Petterson Copy Share Image
I think a lot of people trying to follow Buddhism these days are getting confused about sex and they don't understand what's… — Brad Warner Copy Share Image
That's true but I think the contemporary problem that we are facing increasing numbers of black people and other people of color… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
The visible universe is subject to quantification, and is so by necessity. … Between you and me only reason will be the… — Adelard of Bath Copy Share Image
The public examination of homosexuality in our contemporary life is still so coated with distasteful moral connotations that even a reviewer is… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
It's the fantasy of first love. If you've been married for 400 years, as I have, it's nice to experience first love… — E. L. James Copy Share Image
Traditional arguments for the existence of God and contemporary attempts to use fine-tuning and cosmology to back up the case for his… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
Now we have so many different genres of music, it's amazing to me. Even in the gospel music arena, you've got hip-hop,… — Marvin Sapp Copy Share Image
I know I'm as comfortable doing period as I am contemporary. I suppose we grow up with it in a sense, in… — Ioan Gruffudd Copy Share Image
The iPhone is made on a global scale, and it blends computers, the Internet, communications, and artificial intelligence in one blockbuster, game-changing… — Tyler Cowen Copy Share Image
It is not probable that the reader will be satisfied with any of these solutions, and contemporary philosophers, even rationalistically minded ones,… — William James Copy Share Image
As long as God does not intervene in the contemporary universe in such a way as to violate physical laws, science has… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
My art gives contemporary art a juvenile-delinquent phase. Its self-made style gleefully trashes conventions of beauty and society while pick-pocketing from the… — Steve Olson Copy Share Image
Technically and logically speaking, actual Victorian science fiction writers cannot be dubbed 'steampunks.' Although they utilized many of the same tropes and… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
Nicky Egan has the finesse of Bonnie Raitt merged with the primal force of Janis Joplin. It is a rare combination. Her… — Steve Morse Copy Share Image
My real desire is to see people live in the modus of our time, to participate in the contemporary world, to release… — Karim Rashid Copy Share Image
It is easy enough to write and talk about God while remaining comfortable within the contemporary intellectual climate. Even people who would… — Christian Wiman Copy Share Image
“The thing is, Sara, writing's scary. You have to be prepared to go deep…And when your brain's shouting, 'No, no, no, I'm… — Felicity Everett Copy Share Image
“When you kissed me…I felt special. I never really felt like I deserved it. That isn’t your fault. That was me. When… — Virginia Nelson Copy Share Image
Homo sapiens Yuck You contemporary fools laugh at religious and political lies spewed by sociopaths, lies that tether you forever to poverty… — Bobby Miller Copy Share Image
We live in a trans period. Contemporary issues of sexuality, for example - the exciting aspects of them - have to do… — Vijay Seshadri Copy Share Image
