#temporary

In fact, I don't watch a lot of contemporary comedy for fear of being influenced by it. ↗

— Paul Merton

#comedy #contemporary #fact #fear #i

I wanted to give people - which is fairly bizarre considering my whole life is contemporary dance really - I wanted to give people a really fulfilling sense that they had seen a white classical ballet - in a very pure form. ↗

— Graeme Murphy

#bizarre #classical #considering #contemporary #dance

The ECB's interventions in sovereign bond markets should not be perceived or interpreted as a 'freebie' for governments. They are temporary. ↗

— Lucas Papademos

#governments #interpreted #interventions #markets #perceived

Before I started LimoLand, I mainly bought my clothes in Harlem, where I found clothing my size in fun colors. I still like to go there and see the vibrancy and colors of the neighborhood. I am also very influenced by the colors of my contemporary African and Japanese art collections. ↗

— Jean Pigozzi

#also #am #art #before #bought

In the last 20 years of collecting contemporary African art, I have been bombarded by incredible shapes and colors that I now want to translate into clothes. ↗

— Jean Pigozzi

#art #been #bombarded #clothes #collecting

I think that if the novel's task is to describe where we find ourselves and how we live now, the novelist must take a good, hard look at the most central facts of contemporary life - technology and science. ↗

— Richard Powers

#contemporary #contemporary life #describe #facts #find

Sometimes, instead of purchasing a commodity out and out, people want to buy only the use of it, for a longer or shorter period. The price paid for such temporary use is commonly called hire. ↗

— John Buchanan Robinson

#called #commodity #commonly #hire #instead

As contemporary history reminds us we are human to the extent that we are able to chose between alternatives. ↗

— John G. D. Clark

#alternatives #between #chose #contemporary #contemporary history

We are concerned with the relationship between art and life. Contemporary art is only intelligible in terms of its relationship to our life. ↗

— David Elliott

#between #concerned #contemporary #contemporary art #intelligible

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