Contemporariness Quotes & Sayings

That's right. He was tied in with a boy down there about the time of the murders. Wasn't enough money up here for him in hijacking; he wanted to bring in drugs, so he worked out something with a - lemme think a minute - a boy named Gonzalo Lehder. Made a few trips down there working out the deal, and I guess they hit it off. When we put the indictments on him, that's where he went. Cole wrote down the name. Lehder. — Robert Crais

I am opposed to anybody making a decision for you or me or anybody else about what health care plan we should have. — Arlen Specter

Those who are truly contemporary are those who neither perfectly coincide with their time nor adapt to its demands ... Contemporariness, then, is that relationship with time that adheres to it through a disconnection. — Giorgio Agamben

I'm happiest when I have something to focus my energy on. — Scarlett Johansson

God's at work, lightening every load! — Israelmore Ayivor

Most books set in England between 1800 and 1840 have a 'Regency' feel. The reason that era is so useful for romance authors stems from the wide-ranging social changes that were occurring over that time, and the parallels, or echoes, those create with our time and the lives of our readers. — Stephanie Laurens

I have stepped outside my comfort zone enough to know that, yes, the world does fall apart, but not in the way that you fear. — Tan Le

Joe Biden went to Brazil in an effort to try and repair America's relationship with their government. Biden said, 'It's great to be here in the Amazon. I've always wanted to see where all the books come from.' — Jimmy Fallon

It comes from shared experience, from knowing how it feels to be broken. Hollowness: that I understand. — Paula Hawkins

Well, as much as I love kicking asses and taking names, it's way past curfew for you three- Arriane — Lauren Kate

What is love? There is nothing in the world, neither man nor Devil nor any thing, that I hold as suspect as love, for it penetrates the soul more than any other thing. Nothing exists that so fills and binds the heart as love does. Therefore, unless you have those weapons that subdue it, the soul plunges through love into an immense abyss. — Umberto Eco