Quotes of: Contemporary Keyword

Why is contemporary China short of works that speak directly? Because we writers cannot speak directly, or rather we can only speak in an indirect way. Why does contemporary China lack good works that critique our current situation? Because our curre...

Life

Obviously I always wanted to do a contemporary piece.

Orlando Bloom

Catchphrases flourish in contemporary American English.

P. J. O'Rourke

Do I think all contemporary Christian music is good? No.

Amy Grant

The whole rise of new adult contemporary music and smooth jazz was a nice surprise.

Kenny G

The number of contemporary artists who appeal to me is infinitesimal.

Nick Lowe

Most of my contemporaries at school entered the World of Business, the logical destiny of bores.

Barry Humphries

Philip Larkin has a tough honesty and sense of humor that I find irresistible, as a contemporary poet.

Robert Morgan

I write nothing but contemporary romances.

Chuck Palahniuk

It's become very popular in contemporary films to have the twist ending.

Bill Paxton

Much of contemporary science is really the length and shadow of the technology we apply.

Erez Lieberman Aiden

I love black-and-white movies that are about contemporary subjects.

Noah Baumbach

I love contemporary culture. Even the stuff I don't like.

Natalie Massenet

I read very little contemporary anything.

Alan Furst

There are elements to the 19th century which just don't work for contemporary audiences.

Cary Fukunaga

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

The spoken word has come to dominate many Protestant forms of worship: the words of prayers, responsive readings, Scripture, the sermon, and so forth. Yet the spoken word is perhaps the least effective way of reaching the heart; one must constantly p...

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

In a number of workshops, I have asked people whether they have had one or more experiences that they would identify as an experience of God and, if so, to share them in small groups. On average, 80 percent of the participants identify one or more an...

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

One of the great currents in the contemporary experience of art is that it seems to come out of the experience of the author.

Anish Kapoor

Anxiety is the handmaiden of contemporary ambition.

Status Anxiety

I've come to realize that the contemporary creative culture is not generating the best possible outcome.

Elizabeth Gilbert