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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
If I thought that any poem of mine could have been written by anyone else, either a contemporary or a forerunner, I… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
I'm a big believer in pairing classics with contemporary literature, so students have the opportunity to see that literature is not a… — John Green Copy Share Image
The extinction of race consciousness as between Muslims is one of the outstanding achievements of Islam, and in the contemporary world there… — Arnold J. Toynbee Copy Share Image
My dear young women, with all my heart I urge you not to look to contemporary culture for your role models and… — M. Russell Ballard Copy Share Image
I don't really listen to the radio anymore, but some of the more contemporary people I like are Stereolab, Spiritualize, Yo La… — Dean Wareham Copy Share Image
“SWAT? For me?" Still trembling, one hand clung to the ambulance gurney, the other held a massive sterilised cotton wool wad under… — Morana Blue Copy Share Image
There's no such thing as the contemporary novel. Before I seem the complete reactionary, let me add that I've happily joined in… — Graham Swift Copy Share Image
“I kind of thought actually that Trevor was gone completely mental when he called up here a few weeks ago. Like, why… — Donal Ryan Copy Share Image
We must not fail to recognise that television can be a hugely positive influence in children's lives, one of the greatest educators… — Robert Winston Copy Share Image
“...You're worried that you're going to go out of here and mess up your lines or trip on your high heels, but… — Laura Lascarso Copy Share Image
I look at graphic design as communication, meaning that the work has to have a vibe to connect to the viewer or… — John Van Hamersveld Copy Share Image
I shot a pilot for ABC, which I'm a bit confused about what the actual title is - I heard it was… — Linus Roache Copy Share Image
When I was doing theater for all those years in New York, I did a lot of classical theater, wearing big corsets… — Mireille Enos Copy Share Image
When I go to galleries in New York, I feel like I'm in school. I know that there's good contemporary conceptual art,… — Kyp Malone Copy Share Image
