#temporary

Looks are temporary and don't mirror what's inside. And usually, a great looking man is so vain. Maybe most good-looking women are too. I hope I'm not! ↗

— Dorothy Stratten

#great #hope #i #inside #looking

No philosopher understands his predecessors until he has re-thought their thought in his own contemporary terms. ↗

— Peter Frederick Strawson

#his #own #philosopher #predecessors #terms

These matters having been arranged, I had a temporary awning erected near the river, and was for three or four days busily employed writing an account of our journey for the Governor's information. ↗

— Charles Sturt

#arranged #been #busily #days #employed

He should probably make love to her. ↗

— Tara Janzen

#funny #humour #romance #romantic-suspense #funny

But you know in the contemporary art world, you pose a very interesting conundrum. All sorts of people collect very contemporary art, yet when it comes to the music which is analogous to that sort of art, they are not interested, or perhaps even hostile. ↗

— Michael Tilson Thomas

#art #art world #collect #comes #contemporary

The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap. ↗

— Spiro T. Agnew

#contemporary #gap #generation #generation gap #ignored

Traditional investment vehicles such as IRAs, CDs, stocks and bonds do have their place, but for the rich, they are used more as temporary storage facilities rather than life-long homes. ↗

— Bo Bennett

#cds #facilities #homes #investment #life-long

Youth culture now really looks back and embraces the past, but keeps it contemporary but not sticking to one particular style. ↗

— Alexander McQueen

#contemporary #culture #embraces #keeps #looks

I plastered on my best poker face, attempting to appear cool and casual even thought I had never been so eager to deliver two Chicken Parmagianas in my life. "Just be careful, hon," Rosanna said. "Oh, are the plates hot?" I flinched back just before my hands made contact. Rosanna laughed. "No, but hot boys can burn just as easily. ↗

— C.J. Duggan

#contemporary #new-adult #romance #life

Artist - musicians, painters, writers, poets, always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around them, not the official version or the popular perception of contemporary life. ↗

— Billy Joel

#always #around #artist #contemporary #contemporary life