Best Contrived Quotes
91 Contrived quotes by 80 unique authors
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When I consider how, after sunset, the stars come out gradually in troops from behind the hills and woods, I confess that I could not…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Pleasure and pain, though directly opposite, are yet so contrived by nature as to be constant companions; and it is a fact that the same…
— Pierre Charron
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What passes for education, culture or maturity in most minds is merely how individuals want to think of themselves, a contrived egocentric self-concept, not actual…
— Kenny Smith
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I make it a practice to avoid hating anyone. If someone's been guilty of despicable actions, especially toward me, I try to forget him. I…
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Effectively, it makes the greasepaint permanent, blurring the lines not only between public and private but also between the authentic and contrived self. If all…
— Peggy Orenstein
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The creation of all those symbols and logotypes which are an ever more striking feature of the world in which we live calls for a…
— Armin Hofmann
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The truth is funny. Honest discovery, observation, and reaction is better than contrived invention.
— Del Close
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Contradictions of perspective. Contrasts of light. Contrasts of form. Points of view impossible to achieve in drawing and painting. Foreshortenings with a strong distortion of…
— Alexander Rodchenko
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This deliberately nurtured hatred then spreads to all that is alive, to life itself, to the world with its colors, sounds, and shapes, to the…
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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I've kept journals at many times in my life starting from when I was about 13 or 14. But it's boring and contrived to keep…
— Erica Jong
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Nothing is contrived. At night, the clothes should pour like liquid over the body.
— Oscar de la Renta
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The fathers who contrived and passed the Consititution were wise in their generation; as time passes, we come more and more to realize their powers…
— Learned Hand
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But I have contrived an explanation which has every advantage; is inviting to christians of every communion; gradually frees them from all religious prejudices; cultivates…
— Adam Weishaupt
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Say what you will, making marriage work is a woman's business. The institution was invented to do her homage; it was contrived for her protection.…
— Phyllis McGinley
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ALGEBRA is a general Method of Computation by certain Signs and Symbols which have been contrived for this Purpose, and found convenient.
— Colin Maclaurin
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Gentlemen can now only behave as such, or be tolerated as such, in circumstances that are manifestly contrived or unreal.
— Simon Raven
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Cupid is naked and does not like artifices contrived by beauty.
— Propertius
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It's that same quality I've been talking about. It's neither contrived, nor surprising and smart, not baffling, not witty, not interesting, not cynical, it can't…
— Gerhard Richter
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Some writers find that they don't know their themes until they've finished the first draft (I am one). They then rewrite with an eye toward…
— Nancy Kress
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I feel that if you made your writing too contrived to meet the market, it wouldn't be any good.
— Cathy Marie Buchanan
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I don't really see how any song can not feel contrived if it isn't honest, and how could I write honest songs if I don't…
— Lily Allen
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Fiction writers come up with some interesting metaphors when speaking of plot. Some say the plot is the highway and the characters are the automobiles.…
— James N. Frey
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After a while, a joke, if you say it too much, just becomes contrived, or fake-sounding.
— Dave Chappelle
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Capra is an old-time movie craftsman, the master of every trick in the bag, and in many ways he is more at home with the…
— Manny Farber
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Usually, when Nirvana made music, there wasn't a lot of conversation. We wanted everything to be surreal. We didn't want to have some contrived composition.
— Dave Grohl
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