Best Contemporary Wisdom

644 Contemporary quotes by 549 unique authors

I wanted to disconnect from contemporary architecture — Rem Koolhaas
Pearl Harbor is strenuously respectful of contemporary sensitivities, sometimes at the cost of accuracy. — A. O. Scott
This so-called contemporary art is not a form, but a philosophy of society, — Ai Weiwei
The Prayer of Examine produces within us the priceless grace of self-knowledge. I wish I could adequately explain to you how great a grace this… — Richard J. Foster
Of all the unexpected things in contemporary literature, this is among the oddest: that kids have an inordinate appetite for very long, very tricky, very… — Adam Gopnik
Contemporary Britain seems an endlessly fascinating place to me - but if I knew a little bit more about other places, and other times, maybe… — Jonathan Coe
I was interested in opera and it seemed to me that the only possible theatre for contemporary opera would be television. So I started working… — Robert Ashley
We stink more of the world than we stink of sack cloth and ashes. A lot of contemporary churches today would feel more at home… — Nicky Cruz
Be contemporary. Have impact. Strive for it. Be of the world. Move it. Be bold, don’t hold back. Then the moment you think you’ve been… — Ian Bogost
If Murakami's novels are grand enigmas, his stories are bite-sized conundrums. (...) The great pleasure of the new story collection, Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman, is… — Unknown Author
Arnošt Lustig is one of the leading contemporary Czech fiction writers, and certainly the most important Jewish writer of Bohemia to have survived the Holocaust. — Josef Skvorecky
A brilliant inquiry into the contemporary Iranian predicament and what it means for the world. At a time when all too many of our leading… — Unknown Author
Imprisoning philosophy within the professionalizations and specializations of an institutionalized curriculum, after the manner of our contemporary European and North American culture, is arguably a… — Alasdair MacIntyre
The issue is Kinkade's ideology, and particularly his nostalgia; his paintings endlessly trumpet a nonexistent past when times were simpler and morality more pure. There's… — Paddy Johnson
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 world as much… — Alan Judd
He had a stellar talent. I not only lost a contemporary in the death of Robert E. Howard. The world lost a writer of extraordinary… — Murray Leinster
Prose of the World is an enormously compelling and vivid study. The result is an ambitious, timely, and eloquent account of the relationship between early-twentieth-century… — Rebecca L. Walkowitz
But I don't think that poetry is a good, to use a contemporary word, venue, for current events. — Diane Wakoski
Our world, so we see and hear on all sides, is drowning in materialism, commercialism, consumerism. But the problem is not really there. What we… — Jacob Needleman
Poetry restores language by breaking it, and I think that much contemporary writing restores fantasy, as a genre of writing in contrast to a genre… — Michael Cisco
American Morons is the work of an original. Like Hitchcock or Ramsey Campbell, the style is precise, alert, and well-mannered, inviting us to enter Hirshberg's… — Dennis Etchison
Above The Thunder is passionate, wise, and piercingly beautiful. Readers drawn to books with rich, memorable characters and contemporary stories will find this remarkable debut… — Unknown Author
Audrey Auld is a great singer songwriter. She holds a unique place in contemporary Americana/Roots music. I believe that this uniqueness is largely due to… — Fred Eaglesmith
To Forget Venice is a tour de force of ventriloquism. Elegant, contemporary, and wry, the voice at its center is also capable of disarming flights of… — Chase Twichell
There is hardly an aspect of contemporary history more irritating and mystifying than the fact that of all the great unsolved political questions of our… — Hannah

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