Novels, except as aids to masturbation, play no part in contemporary life. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Love is temporary life is forever so live it to the fullest instead of wallowing in self pity and cradling a broken… — Kiki Jones Copy Share Image
Even the best novelists are rarely congratulated on the quality of their observations about contemporary life. — Michelle Dean Copy Share Image
The most difficult problems are naturally not involved in the search for forms for contemporary life. It is a question of working… — Alvar Aalto Copy Share Image
I write about the trials and triumphs of contemporary life - and often the readers see themselves between the lines of the… — Karen Kingsbury Copy Share Image
Body and soul, Black America reveals the extreme questions of contemporary life, questions of freedom and identity: How can I be who… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
The person who achieves spectacular failure has at least attempted something bold. Failure is a temporary condition. Success is likewise temporary. Life,… — Roy H. Williams Copy Share Image
It's one of the great tragedies of our contemporary life in America, that families fall apart. Almost everybody has that in common. — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
All ideas about identity, of course, fit perfectly into the social media wonderland we live in. They seem to really connect. There's… — Vijay Seshadri Copy Share Image
There is much to be said in favor of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“The materialistic and selfish quality of contemporary life is not inherent in the human condition. Much of what appears ‘natural’ today dates… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
My attempt has been really to, beyond making a record of contemporary life, which is what you inevitably do, is trying to… — John Updike Copy Share Image
I think it has other roots, has to do, in part, with a general anxiety in contemporary life... nuclear bombs, inequality of… — Leonard Baskin Copy Share Image
To understand what I am saying, you have to believe that dance is something other than technique. We forget where the movements… — Pina Bausch Copy Share Image
I looked around at what my colleagues were doing, and asked myself, 'What relationship has it with what's going on?' I found… — Martin Parr Copy Share Image
To overcome the anxieties and depressions of contemporary life, individuals must become independent of the social environment to the degree that they… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
In the creation of a garden, the architect invites the partnership of the Kingdom of Nature. In a beautiful garden the majesty… — Luis Barragan Copy Share Image
“In lots of ways, television purveys and enables dreams, and most of these dreams involve some sort of transcendence of average daily… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“Our disenchantment of the night through artificial lighting may appear, if it is noticed at all, as a regrettable but eventually trivial… — Robert Macfarlane Copy Share Image
But perhaps more important, as someone wishing to make a comment or two about contemporary life and values, I don't have to… — Sidney Poitier Copy Share Image
“How are you coming with your home library? Do you need some good ammunition on why it's so important to read? The… — Earl Nightingale Copy Share Image
“...friendship stands as a small affront to the total control of all things by mass entertainment and mass media and mass education… — Anthony Esolen Copy Share Image
“suicide and scandal followed in his wake. The British weekly, the Sunday Referee (March 10, 1935) asked the question that over half… — Christopher Hyatt Copy Share Image
“The great mistake of contemporary life is that we have made such a virtue of intellectual growth while almost totally ignoring the… — Joshua Loth Liebman Copy Share Image
“Something is profoundly wrong with the way we live today. For thirty years we have made a virtue out of the pursuit… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
Artist - musicians, painters, writers, poets, always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around… — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
“You attain a ‘temporary life’ through ‘egoism’ and an ‘eternal life’ without ‘egoism’. ‘Egoism’ is like the string that is wound around… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
I'm interested in the way in which the past affects the present and I think that if we understand a good deal… — Toni Morrison 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
The major impediment to experiencing the sacred depths of ordinary moments is the speed and distraction of contemporary life that moves to… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
“Social Media has transformed contemporary life at work, home and play. You don’t have to love me as long as you LIKE… — Jordan Margolis 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
What need had the businessman to scribble or philosophize when he dominated the imagination of his time and the frantic materialism that… — Alfred Kazin Copy Share Image
The basic question 'will I obey Christ 's teaching?' is rarely taken as a serious issue. For example, to take one of… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
“Everything is temporary. Happiness is temporary, sadness is temporary. Change is temporary, constant is temporary. Time is temporary, speed is temporary. Permanence… — Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma Copy Share Image
Design is interesting because it's utopian. Art is often a jaundiced commentary on contemporary life. Design is always about the future; it's… — Momus Copy Share Image
It is a tribute to the peculiar horror of contemporary life that it makes the worst features of earlier times -- the… — Christopher Lasch Copy Share Image
I think we as people struggle for what is meaningful in our lives, and I think that modern, contemporary life is as… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
