I write contemporary fiction, and that is what my readers want to read. — Alex Flinn Copy Share Image
While there is a great value in things that are old, it seems that the overwhelming challenge in Britain in the late… — Stephen Bayley Copy Share Image
Mother liked beauty wherever she found it, and she found it in many different places, both in nature and in contemporary art.… — David Rockefeller Copy Share Image
If I take a less defensive tone, I'd admit that I couldn't write today a very jazzy, contemporary look at America as… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
The '90s are really the 'Sex and the City' woman, and I think, right now, the new contemporary woman is the 'Lipstick… — Candace Bushnell Copy Share Image
In grades 1 through 4 these books introduce the child to U.S. society - to family life, community activities, ordinary economic transactions,… — Paul Vitz Copy Share Image
In 1917 European history, in the old sense, came to an end. World history began. It was the year of Lenin and… — A. J. P. Taylor Copy Share Image
When I look at the objects that I draw, it seems to me so obvious about the contemporary world - these are… — Michael Craig-Martin Copy Share Image
Contemporary curators orbit in the place of distribution and consumption, and less and less in the space of artists. I think it… — Michelle Grabner Copy Share Image
Contemporary thinkers would say that man is continuously transcending himself. — Gabriel Marcel Copy Share Image
Whenever I read statistical reports, I try to imagine my unfortunate contemporary, the Average Person, who, according to these reports, has 0.66… — Kató Lomb Copy Share Image
I'll wait to see what the film [The Lobster] is, but it's set in a contemporary world, in America, there are hospitals… — Colin Farrell Copy Share Image
“She had a hand on his belt, ready to show him exactly what she had in mind for the night, when he… — Melissa Cutler Copy Share Image
The pace of consumption, waste and environmental change has so stretched the planet's capacity that our contemporary lifestyle, unsustainable as it is,… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
“Eat your heart out. Oh, wait. You can’t. It’s not organic.” — Susan Elizabeth Phillips Copy Share Image
Perhaps there is no greater issue facing contemporary women than the choices they must make about balancing home and work. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
The unprecedented success of Keynesianism is due to the fact that it provides an apparent justification for the 'deficit spending' policies of… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
History, if thoroughly comprehended, furnishes something of the experience which a man would acquire who should be a contemporary of all ages… — Philibert Joseph Roux Copy Share Image
Brings [O'Brian's] achievement to a new height....Such is O'Brian's power to possess the imagination that I found I was living in his… — Alan Judd Copy Share Image
Sex annihilates identity, and the space given to sex in contemporary novels is an avowal of the absence of character. — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
No scientist or student of science, need ever read an original work of the past. As a general rule, he does not… — C.P. Snow Copy Share Image
I think the anti-intellectualism of a lot of contemporary fiction is a kind of despairing of literature's ability to be anything more… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
I used to joke that one of the reasons there was a lack of classical work on my CV was because I… — Bill Nighy Copy Share Image
I enjoy listening to contemporary rock on the college stations while I'm taking long walks, love gospel and soul music, am fascinated… — Oscar Hijuelos Copy Share Image