#tempo

Let me just unsubscribe to my own mind already, because I don't get any of it. ↗

— Jandy Nelson

#young-adult #contemporary

Everybody's crooked. The trick is to find out how they're bent. ↗

— Jennifer Crusie

#contemporary

There have been times I have thought some dreams should never be dreamt, but I would hate a world where that was true. ↗

— Daniel Amory

#city #contemporary-fiction #contemporary-literarture #downtown #dream

The problem is essentially that of communications to an army in action. After a rapid advance communications become disorganized, and there is a temporary halting until they are again in working order. ↗

— John Desmond Bernal

#advance #after #again #army #become

The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing. ↗

— Jorge Luis Borges

#flattery #more #much #nothing #posterity

I think we'll still be a family restaurant, we'll be contemporary, we'll be lifestyle, we won't be old, we won't be 60 years old in the view of the consumer. ↗

— Jim Cantalupo

#contemporary #family #i #i think #lifestyle

With 'Bright Star' and with 'The Piano,' too, I felt a kind of sadness about it being in such a different era, because of my lack of experience with the era. And one of the ways I'd get over it is to remind myself that every film, even if it's contemporary, creates its own world. ↗

— Jane Campion

#because #being #bright #contemporary #creates

I don't want to tell President Obama how to make a speech. He's a much better speech maker than I am. But I think always to tell the truth in a sometimes blatant way, even though it might be temporarily unpopular, is the best approach. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

#am #approach #best #better #blatant

When the Domaine Musical started up, I wasn't part of it. They were the major players in contemporary music at that time, braodcasting old and new composers' work. And I wasn't one of them. ↗

— Luc Ferrari

#contemporary #contemporary music #i #major #music

I'm not doing contemporary songs unless something comes along that really knocks my socks off. ↗

— Frankie Valli

#comes #contemporary #doing #i #knocks