#contrive

I never liked dance photography; it's very flat, and dance photography in the studio looks very contrived. ↗

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

#dance #flat #i #liked #looks

After a while, a joke, if you say it too much, just becomes contrived, or fake-sounding. ↗

— Dave Chappelle

#becomes #contrived #joke #just #much

Life is made up of constant calls to action, and we seldom have time for more than hastily contrived answers. ↗

— Learned Hand

#answers #calls #constant #contrived #hastily

Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#chips #contrived #critics #her #invented

A heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

#execute #hand #head #heart #resolve

Pleasure and pain, though directly opposite are contrived to be constant companions. ↗

— Pierre Charron

#constant #contrived #directly #opposite #pain

The Chinese, by their favourite system of dwarfing, contrive to make it, when only a foot and a half or two feet high, have all the characters of an aged cedar of Lebanon. ↗

— Robert Fortune

#cedar #characters #chinese #contrive #favourite

But from the time I was very little, it was something I would do all the time, just sing, dance and act. So it wasn't something that was fake or contrived as I got older. ↗

— Jennifer Lopez

#contrived #dance #fake #got #i

Yeah, I don't necessarily like endings that contrive an artificial moment of completion. ↗

— Daniel Clowes

#completion #contrive #endings #i #like

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

#deliberate #dishonest #enemy #great #great enemy