Contemporay Quotes

#1. The sky is like a monochromatic contemporay painting, drawing me in its illusion of depth, pulling me up.

John Green

#2. Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful- 1834

William Morris

#3. Behind every effect there is a cause. You can never eliminate an effect without first understanding its cause.

Suzy Kassem

#4. My work is not my life. I started writing quite late, I didn't have that 'writing is everything, my art is all.' You have to be able to recognise the difference between the two.

Kate Atkinson

#5. Jews are not part of a European ruling class imposed on helpless natives, but are caught up in a tragedy in which two peoples are struggling for the same piece of land.

Jack Schwartz

#6. Every cubic centimeter of space, and every second that passes, is the result of this dancing foam of extremely small quanta.

Carlo Rovelli

#7. Players grunt, coaches yell, and pads and helmets crack, creating a frightening symphony of future early-onset dementia.

Nate Jackson

#8. Christian literature comes from Christian novelists and dramatists - not from the bench of bishops getting together and trying to write plays and novels in their spare time.

C.S. Lewis

#9. She looked up at me with a polite smile, her dark hair long and appealing ... I liked the smile.
Maybe I didn't look like a beaten-up bum. Maybe on me it just looked ruggedly determined.
"I'm sorry, sir," she said, "but the addiction counseling center is on twenty-six."
Sigh.

Jim Butcher

#10. You're an interesting man, sergeant. You make enemies like a craftsman.

Terry Pratchett

#11. When you died, of course, these wrong opinions were all there was left

Alice Munro