Quotes of: Contemporary-life Keyword

I guess maybe I try to make movies that are closer to real life than are many Hollywood movies. But I still try to stay within a commercial narrative, a contemporary American vernacular.

Alexander Payne

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

Karen Kingsbury

Literature is impossible, in exactly this sense: every new generation has so much 'catching up' to do that the real choice that presents itself soon is the following one: one either spends ones entire life just reading all the classics, or one preten...

Martinus Hendrikus Benders

An obituary should be an exercise in contemporary history, not a funeral oration.

Peter Utley

The Christian life is not about pleasing God the finger-shaker and judge. It is not about believing now or being good now for the sake of heaven later. It is about entering a relationship in the present that begins to change everything now. Spiritual...

The God We Never Knew: Beyond Dogmatic Religion To A More Authenthic Contemporary Faith

Let me begin with a heartfelt confession. I admit it. I am a biblioholic, one who loves books and whose life would seem incomplete without them. I am an addict, with a compulsive need to stop by nearly any bookstore I pass in order to get my fix. Boo...

Book Lover's Guide to Great Reading: A Guided Tour of Classic & Contemporary Literature

The psychopathology of the masses is rooted in the psychology of the individual

Essays on Contemporary Events, 1936-46

I love contemporary art, although I wouldn't want a pickled shark in my house.

Bruno Tonioli

In this tour around the world I was not interested in contemporary buildings because I had seen contemporary buildings actually until they came out of my ears in a sense.

Minoru Yamasaki

One way or another, we all have to find what best fosters the flowering of our humanity in this contemporary life, and dedicate ourselves to that.

Joseph Campbell

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

I'm sure the movie industry is going up but I would love to see more Chinese films about contemporary Chinese about the problems of life on the street.

Paz Vega

While there are many experts in the psychoanalysis of individuals, there seems to be little active authority or understanding in the matter of the persistent shared madness in everyday life. It's as if collective mental illness doesn't exist except i...

Michael Leunig

It's a mystery to me the way that contemporary art galleries function.

Steve Martin

The problem of telling contemporary history is that your message gets outdated.

Salman Rushdie

The most difficult problems are naturally not involved in the search for forms for contemporary life. It is a question of working our way to forms behind which real human values lie.

Alvar Aalto

What good is a revolution anyway if it isn’t joyful?

The Electric Jesus: The Healing Journey of a Contemporary Gnostic

Freedom: both so priceless and so expensive.

Sisters And Strangers: An Introduction To Contemporary Feminist Fiction

Karma literally means “deed” or “act” and more broadly names the universal principle of cause and effect, action and reaction which governs all life. Karma is a natural law of the mind, just as gravity is a law of matter.

Dancing With Siva: Hinduism's Contemporary Catechism: An illustrated sourcebook, timeline and lexicon exploring how to know the Divine, honor all creation and see God everywhere, in everyone

Whether keenly striking or laughably awful, contemporary art is rarely unentertaining.

Are We There Yet?

The beautiful is powerless but always exceeds what frames it, and what always frames it is discourse.

Beauty and the Contemporary Sublime