#tempo

This might be one way to start talking about differences between the early postmodern writers of the fifties and sixties and their contemporary descendants. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#between #contemporary #descendants #differences #early

Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#contemporaries #merit #person #posterity #rather

They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#essential #give #liberty #little #neither

I consulted a Chinese herbalist and spent two weeks on an island off the coast of Zanzibar. I was away from any kind of contemporary technology. ↗

— Francesca Annis

#away #chinese #coast #consulted #contemporary

Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy of one. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#aristocracy #contemporary #every #fallen #feels

Works of art produced in the contemporary world are a further expression of that. But I don't think there is an active, ongoing nihilist self-consciousness in the artist. ↗

— Leonard Baskin

#art #artist #contemporary #contemporary world #expression

I listen to both oldies and contemporary stations. I enjoy listening to current stuff because there's an energy to it that's inspiring. ↗

— Carole King

#both #contemporary #current #energy #enjoy

People walk differently in high heels. Your body sways to a different kind of tempo. ↗

— Manolo Blahnik

#different #different kind #differently #heels #high

I don't have stylistic loyalty. That's why people perceive me changing all the time. But there is a real continuity in my subject matter. As an artist of artifice, I do believe I have more integrity than any one of my contemporaries. ↗

— David Bowie

#artifice #artist #believe #changing #contemporaries

In the perception of the incongruous stimuli, the recognition process is temporarily thwarted and exhibits characteristics which are generally not observable in the recognition of more conventional stimuli. ↗

— Jerome Bruner

#conventional #exhibits #generally #incongruous #more