Contemporary Review Quotes

#1. In an article on Bunyan lately published in the "Contemporary Review" - the only article on the subject worth reading on the subject I ever saw (yes, thank you, I am familiar with Macaulay's patronizing prattle about "The Pilgrim's Progress") etc.

George Bernard Shaw

#2. The more ways we have to connect, the more many of us seem desperate to unplug.

Pico Iyer

#3. The Services offer the cleanest and most natural support to an aggressive foreign policy; expansion of the empire appeals powerfully to the aristocracy and the professional classes by offering new and ever-growing fields for the honorable and profitable employment of their sons.

J.A. Hobson

#4. You may need to change your dreams.

Jean Kwok

#5. The only thing the women were after was just the chance to help the world on. But some men were so dreadfully afraid of them that they refused to understand, and talked about 'shrieking sisterhoods' and 'disappointed spinsters' and rubbish of that sort.

Nancy Astor

#6. Intoxicating" - Shannon

Scarlett Avery

#7. Love of music, of sunsets and sea; a liking for the same kind of people; political opinions that are not radically divergent; a similar stance as we look at the stars and think of the marvelous strangeness of the universe - these are what build a marriage. And it is never to be taken for granted.

Madeleine L'Engle

#8. I quickly realized that shopping on Amazon had made the idea of parking my car and going into a store feel like an outrageous imposition on my time and good nature.

Maria Semple

#9. I review books as a day job, and through the years I've come to view the contemporary memoir as, almost always, a saga of victimization, sometimes by others, sometimes by the self, and sometimes by illness or misfortune, leading, like clockwork, to healing and redemption.

Walter Kirn

#10. There is something immensely scary about putting yourself out there for people to love or hate you, fan or pan you, review or screw you.

L.V. Lewis

#11. Despite having written five books, I worry that I have not written the right kinds of books, or that perhaps I have dedicated too much of my life to writing, and have therefore neglected other aspects of my being.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#12. Beware of success. It can knock you into a fixed mindset.

Carol S. Dweck

#13. Really good fiction could have as dark a worldview as it wished, but it'd find a way both to depict this world and to illuminate the possibilities for being alive and human in it.
[Q&A with Larry McCaffery, Review of Contemporary Fiction, Summer 1993, Vol. 13.2]

David Foster Wallace

#14. Unfortunately, the contemporary domestic intelligence apparatus is so vast as to render the judiciary incapable of fine-grained review of its decisions.

Frank Pasquale

#15. A topic is not interesting enough until it is multi layered. There is no vigor in a motive without many layers. One also learns quite a lot when one has been working on a difficult painting. That is my feeling. I believe that.

Odd Nerdrum

#16. That fucking better not be you in the goddamn elevator, Adam. Maintenance just called and said some asshole stopped the elevator and guess what? They started out on my floor. Are you fucking the client in the goddamn elevator five minutes after I told you not to fuck the fucking client?

Lexi Blake

#17. You told dad you didn't know what happened to his underwear. But You'd just flame-broiled his shorts on the grill.

C.C. Hunter

#18. In this century, not only has science changed the world faster than ever, but in new and different ways. Targeted drugs, genetic modification, artificial intelligence, perhaps even implants into our brains - may change human beings themselves.

Martin Rees

#19. India is once again ready to play the role of 'Vishvaguru' and work towards the benefit of mankind.

Narendra Modi

#20. Her life was a tissue of vanity and deceit.

Virginia Woolf