Quotes of: Contrive Keyword

Gentlemen can now only behave as such, or be tolerated as such, in circumstances that are manifestly contrived or unreal.

Simon Raven

I never liked dance photography; it's very flat, and dance photography in the studio looks very contrived.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

Beauty and femininity are ageless and can't be contrived, and glamour, although the manufacturers won't like this, cannot be manufactured. Not real glamour; it's based on femininity.

Marilyn Monroe

I feel that if you made your writing too contrived to meet the market, it wouldn't be any good.

Cathy Marie Buchanan

Life is made up of constant calls to action, and we seldom have time for more than hastily contrived answers.

Learned Hand

After a while, a joke, if you say it too much, just becomes contrived, or fake-sounding.

Dave Chappelle

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

Some people are contriving ways and means of making us collapse.

Robert Mugabe

My records do not require a lot of thought of 'What is this?' and 'What is that?' That would be too contrived for me.

Van Morrison

Personality is everything that's false in a human: everything that's been added on to him and contrived.

Sam Shepard

Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. People have the right to expect that these wants will be provided for by this wisdom.

Jimmy Carter

The armored cars of dreams, contrived to let us do so many a dangerous thing.

Elizabeth Bishop

I had great difficulty in school interacting with others, and I took refuge in the contrived setting of play acting, which is what I still do.

Jesse Eisenberg

We have seen Indians in immense numbers, and all those on this coast of the Pacific contrive to make a good subsistence on various seeds, and by fishing.

Junipero Serra

For the greater beauty of the instrument, the balls representing the planets are to be of considerable bigness; but so contrived, that they may be taken off at pleasure, and others, much smaller, and fitter for some purposes, put in their places.

David Rittenhouse

Every contrivance of man, every tool, every instrument, every utensil, every article designed for use, of each and every kind, evolved from a very simple beginnings.

Robert Collier

The anchors now made are contrived so as to sink into the ground as soon as they reach it, and to hold a great strain before they can be loosened or dislodged from their station.

William Falconer

There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.

Samuel Johnson

To force a lawyer on a defendant can only lead him to believe that the law contrives against him.

Potter Stewart

It destroys the soul to hear that you're all hype, that you have no talent, and that your whole career has been contrived.

Freddie Mercury

Often even a whole city suffers for a bad man who sins and contrives presumptuous deeds.

Hesiod