Quotes of: Present-world Keyword

As a culture I see us as presently deprived of subtleties. The music is loud, the anger is elevated, sex seems lacking in sweetness and privacy.

Shelley Berman

The work of art shows people new directions and thinks of the future. The house thinks of the present.

Adolf Loos

I have realised how exciting and easy it is to be a time traveller by looking at paintings and films and architecture and playing music or listening to it. I don't think you necessarily have to live in the present all the time.

Jools Holland

I like to mix pieces in my art direction from the '60s or the '40s and the '90s and present-day stuff. To me, that feels very real. When I go into people's houses, it's not all today.

Aaron Ruell

There is always a multitude of reasons both in favor of doing a thing and against doing it. The art of debate lies in presenting them; the art of life lies in neglecting ninety-nine hundredths of them.

Hale White

All a work of art can do is present the surface. I can't know the insides of people. I know very little about the inside of myself.

John Banville

The recognition of the art that informs all pure science need not mean the abandonment for it of all present art, rather it will mean the completion of the transformation of art that has already begun.

John Desmond Bernal

Reading is a majority skill but a minority art. Yet nothing can replace the exact, complicated, subtle communion between absent author and entranced, present reader.

Julian Barnes

When presented with a member of the opposite sex, some of us get numbers and some of us throw up.

Anatomy of a Boyfriend

The beast lives unhistorically; for it 'goes into' the present, like a number, without leaving any curious remainder.

On the Advantage and Disadvantage of History for Life

Look beyond the present circumstances, imagine a brighter future.

The Alphabets of Success: Passion Driven Life

Sometimes love cut so deep it caused terrible pain, or crossed paths with the joy of his present experiences.

Alanna

The future goal is the thing which produces character in the present.

After You Believe: Why Christian Character Matters

Our future experiences will be colored by the choices we make in the present.

Against the Stream: A Buddhist Manual for Spiritual Revolutionaries

Every man needs a shadow to reveal his light, to always be that close, ever present, bonded forever in astral allegiance.

Aisyx

The future was with Fate. The present was our own. ~ The Poison Belt

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: 12 Titles

I would have no need for the Memory Of Things past if those which were Present were more agreeable

Hawksmoor

A Wasn’t just isn't. He just isn't present. But you… You ARE YOU! And, now isn't that pleasant!

Happy Birthday to You!

The present changes the past. Looking back you do not find what you left behind.

The Inheritance of Loss

...eyes that, like those of children, look at an eternal present without forgiveness.

If on a Winter's Night a Traveler

The past always seems better when you look back on it than it did at the time. And the present never looks as good as it will in the future.

Jaws