Books Quote by Richard Powers

I looked around at what my colleagues were doing, and asked myself, 'What relationship has it with what's going on?' I found there was…

— Martin Parr

There is much to be said in favor of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch…

— Oscar Wilde

I wanted to revolutionise habits and contemporary life - to liberate nature, to free it from the authority of old theories and classicism... I…

— Maurice de Vlaminck

I write about the trials and triumphs of contemporary life - and often the readers see themselves between the lines of the story.

— Karen Kingsbury

We need it to capture the energy of contemporary life.

— John Eaton

Novels, except as aids to masturbation, play no part in contemporary life.

— Gore Vidal

I'm interested in the way in which the past affects the present and I think that if we understand a good deal more about…

— Toni Morrison

The public examination of homosexuality in our contemporary life is still so coated with distasteful moral connotations that even a reviewer is bound to…

— Sydney J. Harris

What need had the businessman to scribble or philosophize when he dominated the imagination of his time and the frantic materialism that was his…

— Alfred Kazin

The most difficult problems are naturally not involved in the search for forms for contemporary life. It is a question of working our way…

— Alvar Aalto

In the creation of a garden, the architect invites the partnership of the Kingdom of Nature. In a beautiful garden the majesty of nature…

— Luis Barragan

I think we as people struggle for what is meaningful in our lives, and I think that modern, contemporary life is as easy as…

— Carrie Brownstein