“My father and I used to watch a ton of old horror movies when I was growing up. ’The Creature from the… — Richard Finney Copy Share Image
Life consists in learning to live on one's own, spontaneous, freewheeling: to do this one must recognize what is one's own-be familiar… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
I wanted to revolutionise habits and contemporary life - to liberate nature, to free it from the authority of old theories and… — Maurice de Vlaminck Copy Share Image
I always thought the point of life was something richer than that. Something full of great tragedy or comedy, reversal of fortune,… — Jonathan Raymond Copy Share Image
Any dramatic series the producers want us to take seriously as a representationof contemporary reality cannot be taken seriously as a representation… — Richard Schickel Copy Share Image
The findings in contemporary social sciences are helping us understand that we can find other ways to educate people and act against… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
I'm reading a manuscript by Rodney Jones, "Village Prodigies",it's one of the best contemporary poetry books I've ever read ever. — Stephen Dobyns Copy Share Image
“Most of my dates had consisted of some guy trying to sweet-talk me while I silently prayed for an asteroid to crash… — Stephanie Nelson Copy Share Image
“As a feminist I feel immediately guilty because everyone is trying to encourage girls into STEM subjects now, but to be honest… — Laura Steven Copy Share Image
Contemporary political theorists continue this type of thinking about democracy by arguing that the development of "public judgment" among regular citizens should… — Kevin Mattson Copy Share Image
“Lucy: I don't feel like talking about college. It increases my stress level. James: And increased stress levels lead to hair loss.… — Kristen Tracy Copy Share Image
The contemporary artist...is not bound to a fully conceived, previsioned end. His mind is kept alert to in-process discovery and a working… — Jerry Uelsmann Copy Share Image
I suppose I'm qualified to some degree to speak about the nature of contemporary media, as that's where I currently work. People,… — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
“I came here because it's pine-dark and the ocean is wild. The kind of quiet-noise you need when there's too much going… — Amy McNamara Copy Share Image
My entire career is contemporary based, not by choice, but just by character. So, all the movies I've done, except for one… — Michael Douglas Copy Share Image
Here is a quilted book about mathematical practice, each patch wonderfully prepared. Part invitation to number theory, part autobiography, part sociology of… — Peter Galison Copy Share Image
I read a ton of fiction - historical, contemporary, literary, commercial, I love it all. — Megan Chance Copy Share Image
Audrey Auld is a great singer songwriter. She holds a unique place in contemporary Americana/Roots music. I believe that this uniqueness is… — Fred Eaglesmith Copy Share Image
A learned historian declared to me of a contemporary, that the latter had appropriated his researches; he might, indeed, and he had… — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
I sometimes think the contemporary white American is more culturally deprived than the Indian. — N. Scott Momaday Copy Share Image
In a world in which stylistic innovation is no longer possible, all that is left is to imitate dead styles... Contemporary or… — Fredric Jameson Copy Share Image
I am delighted if people find that kind of sustenance in novels, but perhaps it's because they don't read the Scripture that… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
The formal stuff feels old and windy. Not to say you shouldn't know prosody. But it's a wonderful time for exploratory poetics.… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
There is another temptation which we must especially guard against: the simplistic reductionism which sees only good or evil; or, if you… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
