#contemporary

You definitely have the voice for phone sex, but I've got to go. I have a date with my vibrator." "Oh, Eva." Cross spoke my name in a decadent purr. "You're determined to drive me to my knees, aren't you? What will it take to talk you into a threesome with B.O.B. ↗

— Sylvia Day

#eva-tramell #gideon-cross #dating

Alice, it took big, dumb Talon Dodo thirty seconds to get you so pissed about a poker hand pun that you were about to beat him to death with your cane. ↗

— Elle Lothlorien

#death

Works of art produced in the contemporary world are a further expression of that. But I don't think there is an active, ongoing nihilist self-consciousness in the artist. ↗

— Leonard Baskin

#art #artist #contemporary #contemporary world #expression

An obituary should be an exercise in contemporary history, not a funeral oration. ↗

— Peter Utley

#contemporary history #exercise #funeral #history #obituary

Sometimes...the hardest part about letting someone go is realizing that you were never meant to have them. ↗

— Rebecca Serle

#love #shakespeare #love

My butt has a maximum drive time of seven hours. ↗

— Elle Lothlorien

#contemporary-romance

Obviously I always wanted to do a contemporary piece. ↗

— Orlando Bloom

#contemporary #i #i always #obviously #piece

Ever since my youth it has disturbed me that of the literary works that survived their own epoch, so many dealt with historical rather than contemporary subjects. ↗

— Lion Feuchtwanger

#dealt #disturbed #epoch #ever #historical

Well, I think there are artists who are more or less contemporary with Hopper who are more relevant. ↗

— Donald Judd

#contemporary #hopper #i #i think #less

The extinction of race consciousness as between Muslims is one of the outstanding achievements of Islam, and in the contemporary world there is, as it happens, a crying need for the propagation of this Islamic virtue. ↗

— Arnold J. Toynbee

#between #consciousness #contemporary #contemporary world #crying