Quotes About Contemporary

#1. Follow your heart a little more and listen to your head a little less.

Fabiola Francisco

#2. I'm always interested in contemporary fiction.

Kenneth Branagh

#3. Cinna slid down the bar, sassing three groomsmen and
winking at a fourth on her way.
"I totally get why some animals eat their young," Pepper said.

Jamie Farrell

#4. Concern for the environment is a central tent of Islam, yet in contemporary debates over environmental issues there has been virtually no reference made to Islamic teaching

Mawil Izzi Dien

#5. I wasn't trying to make you jealous. But if jealousy does this to you, I might need to consider it." He gripped my sides firmly, letting his lips gently dance over mine, "Mags, I'm yours. You have nothing to worry about.

Kristen Hope Mazzola

#6. You love me."
He kept gazing upward, his answer coming softly. "Yeah. I do.

Toni Blake

#7. The boundaries between contemporary art and cinema are so rigid. It's unbelievable. The film critics don't know my artwork and the art world doesn't know my films.

Agnes Varda

#8. I can be patient, Vivienne, and I believe you're worth waiting for.

Samantha Chase

#9. People don't really have much of a choice when the heart falls. I'm lucky enough that mine just so happened to fall for you, Misty." - Dylan to Misty in, When the Heart Falls

Kimberly Lewis

#10. Lacking positive myths to guide him, many a sensitive contemporary man finds only the model of the machine beckoning him from every side to make himself over into its image.

Rollo May

#11. I want to know what it feels like to kiss a guy. And you've had a lot of practice, so I know you're a good kisser.
Are you simultaneously complimenting me and calling me a whore?

Abigail Roux

#12. Maya Angelou, the famous African American poet, historian, and civil rights activist who is hailed be many as one of the great voices of contemporary literature, believes a struggle only makes a person stronger.

Michael N. Castle

#13. But no matter what happens, I spoke up, made a voice for myself, freed from the haunting memories that have owned me for the last six years. I found my courage.

Jessica Sorensen

#14. I don't know. I guess I'd just like to see you live one day for yourself.

Jessica Brody

#15. How can a girl look so innocent and so hot at the same time?

Angela Richardson

#16. Like your sweet, affectionate house cat, Alice Dahl is easy to underestimate. It's not until the songbirds in the yard show up eviscerated on the front porch that you realize you should've kept that bell collar on her - because those poor birds never even saw her coming.

Elle Lothlorien

#17. Miz Ellen, what do you carry in that handbag of yours that has enough wallop to knock down a full-grown man? - Dan Landry

Jane Rainwater

#18. He already couldn't remember what it'd been like before her. He'd thought everything was great in his life but then he'd been thrown a curve ball in the form of this gorgeous, passionate woman who he suddenly couldn't get enough of. Which made it official. He was hers, completely.

Jill Shalvis

#19. But contemporary capitalism increasingly has the power to eliminate the intimacy and accountability of human relationships. So in the marketplace, as in every field, there is an urgent need for those with a powerful compass.

Timothy Keller

#20. The only thing standing between her and her beautiful new home was her own silly insecurity and Matt Reed.

Samantha Chase

#21. There are contemporary artists that I hate with all my heart. These are provocateurs that are without feeling. Where is the real emotion?

Paolo Sorrentino

#22. I want to go slow, baby, I really do," he whispered at the side of her neck. "But I'm not going to be able to this first time."
"Thank heavens.

Robin Bielman

#23. You're the devil, you know that, right?"
His smile grew and became just a bit wicked. "You know it, sweetheart.

Samantha Chase

#24. We're not quitting until I'm satisfied you know what you're doing," he said in a low voice.
"Until we're both satisfied," she corrected.
Killing. Him.

Roxanne Snopek

#25. Contemporary bands often will do tour-only releases pressed and sold only in Australia. Crikey!

Henry Rollins

#26. We just start putting our ideas out there, yet how do we actually attack contemporary problems? We do what some of the most successful American businesses do. We outsource and collaborate

Baratunde R. Thurston

#27. Because all of us are so ready to talk about the world we live in. We are ready to have a publishing industry that is of that world.

Mira Jacob

#28. Or else I may do something I'm pretty sure you'll hate me for in the mornin'." The low huskiness of his voice washed over her like a heated caress, sending shivers down her spine, and obliterating whatever defenses she'd manage to build against him.

J.M. Stewart

#29. Cooper's been married in his head for a while now."
"That's ... kinda sweet.

Robyn Carr

#30. The bats stop flying above and the moon stands still. He commands the air and the sky and my body.

Eliza Freed

#31. Because of the structure of the contemporary American party system, every president is polarizing.

Larry J. Sabato

#32. If a man can't love you for who you are, he's not worth The Dior Gloss.

Leah Marie Brown

#33. I don't think Australians ever use a couple of words when twenty will do just fine.

Elle Lothlorien

#34. The fact that the work is affirmed by the Museum of Contemporary Art I think sends continued signals that this is worth paying attention to, looking at, and understanding.

Theaster Gates

#35. More. Give me more.
I don't know if you're ready for this. He's shirtless.
You're killing me. Is he built?
Like a Greek god.
Nooooo.....so unfair. I don't have any hot neighbors, just acres and acres of corn fields.

Sue Barr

#36. Don't worry, little bunny, we only use our triplet telepathic powers for good.

Elle Lothlorien

#37. Obviously, I love to do both contemporary and historical fiction. When a hint of a story grabs me, I try to go with it to see where it will take me whatever the setting.

Katherine Paterson

#38. Hubert's wife, Mindy, was a tiny powerhouse of a woman with a halo of wild blond hair and eye makeup so complex it took me a while to locate her pupils. She was clearly the brains of the operation, such as she was.

Molly Harper

#39. [Takashi] Murakami, do you think he is spiritual? He is more like de-spiritualized. De-spiritualized might be the most contemporary aspect of the human mind.

Hiroshi Sugimoto

#40. Then, the door opens and there he is; silhouetted in the hall light. Long hair, long legs, and a heartbeat in tune with my own.

Hunter S. Jones

#41. Sienna Rivers, ex-nerd, undisputed reigning chess champion of the class of 09 and the proverbial all round wise-ass degenerate pain in your backside.

Ali Harper

#42. She sounded like she really meant it, and I wondered if I actually was standing here on the sidewalk with her, and not still asleep in my room.

Claudette Melanson

#43. I thought you only had eyes for your ship."
God, she was beautiful. "Until I met you.

Lisa Kessler

#44. Fucking is easy, dating is not. - Duke

Stephanie Witter

#45. She ran her hand over the dash.
"You're petting my car," Hunter said, turning the key. "I usually charge for that.

Ophelia London

#46. Moments like these are fleeting, and we have to grab onto them while we can. From the instant I saw you, I wanted to give you my heart. But today I'll settle for giving you a flower.

Chloe Asher

#47. Because she did love him, and not from afar, not with the moony dreaminess she'd used as a crutch for so many years, but with a deep, aching tenderness she felt might just kill her.

Miranda Liasson

#48. Until it has scared you with its endlessness, sky is just sky.

Jenny Hubbard

#49. Every minute I decide not to kill you is a minute your life is saved. You owe me everything.

Christina L. Barr

#50. The house was the color of baby vomit.

Pixie Lynn Whitfield

#51. One of the sad things about contemporary journalism is that it actually matters very little. The world now is almost inured to the power of journalism. The best journalism would manage to outrage people. And people are less and less inclined to outrage.

David Simon

#52. He looked like a Greek god. Jade's thoughts snapped from togas to white sheets to sex in the span of two seconds.

Alyssa Goodnight

#53. I realized then that both Gladys and Norm were smiling at about the time I realized that Max and I were acting like lunatics.
"I don't think she's tied up in knots anymore, Gladie," Norm observed.
"She is, dear, just not ones she wants to untie," Gladys remarked.

Kristen Ashley

#54. I didn't have to look at him to know I'd just lost everything I'd ever wanted because I felt it. I felt the loss seep into bone and tissue. I felt it settle between the cracks in my heart and the empty holes in my soul.

Julie Bale

#55. My favorite time is now, like tonight, under a full moon. When a thousand crystals are sparkling at us. It's almost magical, isn't it?

Dominique Eastwick

#56. Contemporary fiction is the hardest for me because I am not really in the popular culture - I don't watch TV.

Gail Carson Levine

#57. Why is it that many contemporary male thinkers, especially men of color, repudiate the imperialist legacy of Columbus but affirm dimensions of that legacy by their refusal to repudiate patriarchy?

Bell Hooks

#58. Mother's interest in contemporary American artists emerged during the 1920s.

David Rockefeller

#59. Contemporary novels can have a fleeting existence within the current multiplication of medias and the technological rapidity with which art is delivered and consumed. A cultural lacuna has opened, one that needs arresting.

Tom Cardamone

#60. He turned to her and pressed a kiss to the corner of her mouth. When he spoke his deep voice vibrated all through her. 'I. Remember. Everything.

MaryJanice Davidson

#61. Locks or no locks, you're not going to cage me in.

Collette West

#62. Everyone has pencils in their house, no matter how hip and contemporary they are.

David Rees

#63. Through helping one another, you can often eliminate the prefix 'im' from the word impossible!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#64. If my mom sees you here, she'll ---"
"Paper the walls with my innards while the innocents watch?

Jamie Farrell

#65. It wasn't until the morning after my uneventful shift, when I wake up, dazed and tense and frustrated as hell, that I realize I'm getting obsessed with that girl, my partner, and this thing is running me ragged.

Charlotte Penn Clark

#66. I read everything. I've always got a book on the go and I'm really nerdy about it, I get through books and don't remember anything about them afterwards. But I read all sorts, from classic to contemporary.

Rebecca Hall

#67. I am committed to the idea of information politics. That is how contemporary politics are played out.

Natalie Jeremijenko

#68. I really don't take any interest at all in contemporary comedy.

Paul Merton

#69. You needn't worry about my following you or looking for you Princess. I'm not in the business of keeping someone who doesn't want to be kept.

Lilly Wilde

#70. The notion that a contemporary woman must look mannish in order to be taken seriously as a seeker of power is frankly dismaying. This is America, not Saudi Arabia.

Anna Wintour

#71. Well, Faye, dear, I'm sure Harlow's sorry she didn't think to ask if you'd been eaten by a shark. That's totally on her.

Elle Lothlorien

#72. A creator is so completely contemporary that he has the appearance of being ahead of his generation.

Gertrude Stein

#73. One of the challenges with period costumes is, on a technical level, making the scale of different periods work on contemporary bodies. We're much bigger than what people were in older times.

Colleen Atwood

#74. I read very little contemporary anything.

Alan Furst

#75. The words 'drink me' come to mind. Anyone besides me up for some heavy alcohol consumption?

Elle Lothlorien

#76. Temptation isn't impersonal - there is an actual enemy doing the tempting. Mark treats Satan as a reality, not a myth. This is certainly jarring in contemporary cultures that are skeptical of the existence of the supernatural, let alone the demonic.

Timothy Keller

#77. You know I'm always ready to indulge your fantasies.

Faith Sullivan

#78. I'll take your body, but I want your heart, Maya.

Meredith Wild

#79. In each restaurant, I develop a different culinary sensibility. In Paris, I'm more classic, because that's what customers like. In Monaco, it's classic Mediterranean haute cuisine. In London, it's a contemporary French restaurant that I've developed with a U.K. influence and my French know-how.

Alain Ducasse

#80. And one thing the void certainly can teach us is how to wait, how to become truly patient, and how to let go of superfluous intellectual baggage - all of which is a good lesson for hyper-agitated multi-tasking goal-focussed contemporary human beings.

George Pattison

#81. What I believe to be one of the major tragedies in the Church today. Namely, that evangelicals are biblical, but not contemporary, while liberals are contemporary but not biblical, and almost nobody is building bridges and relating the biblical text to the modern context

John Stott

#82. Okay, time to play doctor."
Her entire body quivered, sending "yes please" vibes to her brain. Luckily her mouth intercepted them. "Sure, if I can be the doctor."
His mouth curved. "I'm willing to take turns, but me first.

Jill Shalvis

#83. I like to play dirty. I can also be very, very exacting." Rate St. Sebastian.

Samanthe Beck

#84. I think one of the reasons I've done so much period work is because I feel so depressed by how society chooses to represent women in contemporary work.

Romola Garai

#85. "Faith is what's wrong with the world, Aidan. Or don't you follow the news?"
"That's not faith," he says. "That's the complete lack of it. If any one of those mass-genocidal idiots had faith, they wouldn't have the insane need to prove it to others."

Cyma Rizwaan Khan

#86. If the world explore all my dark fantasy, will change for the better.

Alexandar Tomov

#87. I was not being mean. Mean was her mother giving her the name Bernice Woodward.

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R.K. Ryals

#88. This is a great time to shut up and kiss me.
To her delight, Blake obliged.

MaryJanice Davidson

#89. Money, mechanization, algebra. The three monsters of contemporary civilization.

Simone Weil

#90. As soon as I saw her, I knew I had to stay far away from her. Being with her makes me feel like I've been starving for so long. Sofia has given me a taste of something I didn't know I wanted. Something I am now desperate for. Her.

E.R. Wade

#91. Most contemporary fiction sucks. It's intellectually dishonest, often morally dishonest. It's cheap and easy. It pretends to be deep but is really quite shallow.

Dale Peck

#92. Contemporary societies have lost the sense of the feast but have kept the obscure drive for it.

Umberto Eco

#93. After closely examining my conscience, I venture to state that in my historical novels I intended the content to be just as modern and up-to-date as in the contemporary ones.

Lion Feuchtwanger

#94. I'd have to say, you've got something behind those hazel eyes of yours that I haven't seen in a long time

Magan Vernon

#95. Fall in love with you? How could I fall in love with you when I loved you with every breath, every heartbeat, every lash of the fucking whip? When you invaded my dreams, my hallucinations. I can't stop loving you, bella. I've tried. God help me, I've tried.

Skye Warren

#96. Maybe he would see me as weak and stupid. Maybe he was right.

Leslea Tash

#97. Chemistry's a tricky thing, and if I'm not feeling it, I'm not gonna pretend.

Faith Sullivan

#98. History, when they do it, is ancient history, and they sensationalize even that. Contemporary history is virtually ignored on television.

Tariq Ali

#99. Feel free to kiss it better.

Jill Shalvis

#100. Oh, yeah, that goatee is really unattractive. That definitely belongs on a much fatter man.

Elle Lothlorien