Top Contemporary Quotes

Before my mom decided she was a lesbian, I thought lesbians were all these really nice, earthy, crunchy, let's smother you with our twenty extra pounds of lady love and fight the power people.

The paradox is that some of the most artistically valuable contemporary photographs are content with being photographs, are not under the same compulsion to pass themselves off - or pimp themselves ou...

Contemporary Definition

(a.) Living, occuring, or existing, at the same time; done in, or belonging to, the same times; contemporaneous.

(a.) Of the same age; coeval.

(n.) One who lives at the same time with another; as, Petrarch and Chaucer were contemporaries.

What happens when you pray for an angel and get a vampire instead? R E Mullins

He was both her hero and enemy. She was his best student and biggest regret.

Here's a new 'Blessing' for our ti

A fleeting second on someone's news feed,No dearth of meanings for those who read,Not my stories but 'tis what I think,I say I don't write poems, I just write dreams.

Truth is such a rare thing it is delightful to tell it,

Happiness & Sadness are two contemporary stages in life. A wise man overcomes sadness with his wisdom, and a foolish man faces it with tears.

How will the performer-audience interaction change, now that we are so used to participating in the lives of strangers?

The animals known as human beings live in humongous condominium blocks, just going about their daily lives. I've come to realize that it's just a modern jungle. And I'm the girl who's wandered into th...

Snakes don't have fuckin' legs, so how was I supposed to think there'd be one hidin' in the face of a damn rock that's ten feet below the summit?

One describes a tale best by telling the tale. You see? The way one describes a story, to oneself or to the world, is by telling the story. It is a balancing act and it is a dream. The more accurate t...

I’ve always loved catching snow on my eyelashes.

Poetry is not an art, it's a symptom.

There is no happiness like mine.I have been eating poetry.

No good deed goes unpunished - Oscar Wilde

Life had a funny way of kicking you in the gut when you weren't looking.~Torn~ by S. Nelson

I look into his sorrowless eyes and a door in my heart blows open. And when we kiss, i see that on the other side of that door is sky.

While there are memories I wish I could dispose of, sometimes my memories are the only things that keep me sane.

I don't feel at home where I am,or where I spend time; only where,beyond counting, there's freedom and calm,that is, waves, that is, space where, when there,you consist of pure freedom, which, seen,tu...