Contemporary Quotes

644 Contemporary quotes by 549 unique authors

I don't worry whether the period is contemporary or three hundred years ago. Human beings are all alike. — Genevieve Bujold
Most pointedly, nature-based people manifest the very qualities that contemporary psychotherapy, the recovery movement, and spiritual practices continually aim for: a visible sense of inner… — Chellis Glendinning
The Notion Of A Contemporary Epiphany To Me Is Very Exciting, Because It's A Sort Of Biblical Thing. It's Something That Has Happened To People… — Pamela Stephenson
Hughes' debut novel, At Dawn, follows a former All-American wrestler, and is there any better metaphor for contemporary American life? We're all wrestling, tussling with… — Joshua Mohr
Antiques to Die For sets the gold standard for the classic contemporary cozy. Agatha-finalist Jane K. Cleland's writing is top-notch; her plotting and pace smooth… — Julia Spencer-Fleming
I love contemporary poetry because it moves between what we call poetry and what we call philosophy. It joins these fields and makes writing more… — Etel Adnan
Amity Gaige has written a flawless book. It does not contain a single false note. Playful and inventive, SCHRODER movingly depicts the ways we confound… — Unknown Author
I really don't take any interest at all in contemporary comedy. — Paul Merton
In fact, I don't watch a lot of contemporary comedy for fear of being influenced by it. — Paul Merton
Our contemporary Tories prefer the term 'ordered liberty' to 'freedom'. The word 'freedom' scares them; it has too much of a paleolithic ring to it. — Edward Abbey
Also in contemporary Western society the union with the group is the prevalent way of overcoming separateness. It is a union which the individual self… — Erich Fromm
Contemporary industrial society is now characterised more than ever by the need for stupefying work where it is no longer a real necessity. — Herbert Marcuse
So in Jewry we recognise a contemporary universal anti-social phenomenon, which has reached its present pitch through a process of, historical development in which the… — Karl Marx
New materials are one of the great afflictions of contemporary art. Some artists confuse new materials with new ideas. — Sol LeWitt
I sometimes think the contemporary white American is more culturally deprived than the Indian. — N. Scott Momaday
But, number one, I think traditional noir doesn't work in contemporary storytelling because we don't live in that world anymore — Brian De Palma
You know, I listen to contemporary music all the time — Brian De Palma
I read very little contemporary anything. — Alan Furst
I'm trying to discover - invent, I suppose - an architecture, and forms of urban planning, that do something of the same thing in a… — Zaha Hadid
Ever since I first visited New Orleans back in '89, I've been intrigued by the French Quarter. I always wanted to set something in the… — Robert Asprin
A Machine to Make a Future is an insightful and creative contribution to the literature--both scholarly and journalistic--on contemporary genomics. By 'experimenting' with narrative genre,… — Unknown Author
The fact that fairy tales remain a literary underdog-undervalued and undermined-even as they shape so many popular stories, redoubles my certainty that it is time… — Kate Bernheimer
News at Work is a vivid, inside look at the collision of print journalism and electronic media. Based on close access to the leading news… — Unknown Author
Contemplation of life after retirement and life after death can help you deal with contemporary challenges. — Russell M. Nelson
It's the contemporary woman that movies don't know what to do with, other than bathe her in a bridal glow in romantic comedies where both… — James Wolcott

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