And I wasnt playing a role I was trying to be myself. But the harder I was striving, the more I was… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I grew up in the heat of '70s postmodern fiction and post-Godard films, and there was this idea that what mattered was… — Noah Baumbach Copy Share Image
“attitudes were increasingly rejected; and now, in the twenty-first century, much of the energy and creative thinking in our culture operates off… — Heath White Copy Share Image
The church must provide postmoderns with an alternity of rituals by which they can turn and tune to one another and feel… — Leonard Sweet Copy Share Image
I realized that my truest passion was for helping people change through faith in a higher power. That meant, for me, belonging… — James McGreevey Copy Share Image
The biggest problem facing our world today is a lack of hope and a lack of meaning. [It's] basically just a postmodern… — Jon Foreman Copy Share Image
It is safest to grasp the concept of the postmodern as an attempt to think the present historically in an age that… — Fredric Jameson Copy Share Image
One of the stated goals of the postmodern movement in architecture was a greater sensitivity to the people who live in or… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
“It’s just what you’re stuck with, the lousy furniture you can’t change. The educated me knows hell’s nothing, a fiction I happened… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
Concerning [postmodern] ideas, let us not mince words. The ideas are profoundly dangerous. They subvert our civilization by denying that truth is… — George Will Copy Share Image
If modern design moved the stage picture away from the specific, tangible, illusionistic world of Romanticism and Realism into a generalized, theatrical,… — Arnold Aronson Copy Share Image
“Lawrence continues to be central in our postmodern period because he gives us the theoretical tools to understand why, exactly, a culture… — Nidesh Lawtoo Copy Share Image
I'm a postmodern commentator, and so, in a cheeky parallel to James Joyce or James Kelman, I get to places, verbally, that… — Sid Waddell Copy Share Image
I love the combination of smartness, pain, and what one might call conscious postmodern trashiness in this book: a version of the… — Alicia Ostriker Copy Share Image
I'm in a house where if the washing machine shuts off, it sings a song. If iPad gets a message, it sings… — Abel Ferrara Copy Share Image
Steve Coogan picks up enough to lecture an interviewer: This is a postmodern novel before there was any modernism to be post… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
Whereas modern cynicism brought despair about the ability of the human species to realize laudable ideals, postmodern cynicism doesn't — not because… — Robert Wright Copy Share Image
It is possible to see slavery and serfdom merely as extreme early forms of autocratic management, in which employees had no voice… — Kenneth Cloke Copy Share Image
I consider Otto Rank to be one of the great spiritual giants of the twentieth century, a genius as a psychologist and… — Matthew Fox Copy Share Image
Listen - God only exists in people's minds. Especially in Japan, God's always been kind of a flexible concept. Look at what… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“In academia, the ‘cultural turn’ saw a radical shift in scholarship whereby universities made culture the focus of contemporary debates. It also… — Angela Nagle Copy Share Image
It is often said that in today's modern and postmodern world that the forces of darkness are upon us. But I think… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
There are also two Christianities in the world today. There is (1) the Christianity of the New Testament, and there is (2)… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
In that sense, Obama is America's first postmodern president. If his predecessors tended to see the world in terms of good and… — Stephen F. Hayes Copy Share Image
[Postmodern photography] implies the exhaustion of the image universe: it suggests that a photographer can find more than enough images already existing… — Andy Grundberg Copy Share Image
I understand that postmodern literature probably means people like DeLillo, The Fiction Collective, but I don't get it that those writers are… — Kathy Acker Copy Share Image
“However, as Bordo herself notes, the problem with the adoption of postmodern ideas in general is that they have led some writers… — Sheila Jeffreys Copy Share Image
The films I grew up loving, and the art that I love, is not generally the kind of postmodern ironic winking stuff.… — James Gray Copy Share Image
To the extent that we live in a postmodern world and it shapes the concrete circumstances of our daily lives, I would… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
The cyborg is a kind of disassembled and reassembled, postmodern collective and personal self. This is the self feminists must code. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modernism at its end but in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Chavez-Obama pictures will join a postmodern photo array that includes Donald Rumsfeld gifting Saddam Hussein with spurs from President Reagan. — Christine Pelosi Copy Share Image
I like to blur the line between fact and fiction, but not to condescend to the reader by enmeshing her/him into some… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
Some years ago, I was invited to speak in Houston, Texas. They said I was a founder of 'postmodern theatre'. So I… — Robert Wilson Copy Share Image
What we were trying to do was take the notion of Greek tragedy, of fated and doomed people, and instead of these… — David Simon Copy Share Image
Remember that the past fifty years has been the age of the Big Bang cosmology. We have learnt to see all reality… — Don Cupitt Copy Share Image
Possibly the defining development of postmodern politics - naturally, an American one - is the separation of personality from ideology. If you… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“This is the postmodern desert inhabited by people who are, in effect, consuming themselves in the form of images and abstractions through… — Larry McCaffrey Copy Share Image
The legacy of the fairy story in my brain is that everything will work out. In fiction it would be very hard… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
Feudal Europe is over, but it found its way into film culture. It found its way into postmodern painting culture, and we're… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image