I have survivor skills. Some of that is superficial - what I present to people outwardly - but what makes people resilient is the ability to find humour and irony in situations that would otherwise overpower you.
I think we're going to carry the 'Ice Age's up to 'Ice Age 15,' which means basically they'll be in the present decade.
The history of the past interests us only in so far as it illuminates the history of the present.
I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.
Imagery is not past but present. It rests with what we call our mental processes to place these images in a temporal order.
The entertainment medium of film is particularly tuned to the present imaginations of people at large. A lot of fiction is intensely nostalgic.
In the present imperialistic milieu there can be no wars of national self-defense.
The reason we want to go on and on is because we live in an impoverished present.
Thomas Pynchon surely inaugurated or crystallized a new genre in 1963 when he published 'V.' The seriocomic mystery or thriller with one foot set in the present and one in various historical eras received its postmodern baptism from Pynchon.
There are plenty of reasons to put our cellphones down now and then, not least the fact that incessantly checking them takes us out of the present moment and disrupts family dinners around the globe.
Everything present is included in the past somewhere; nobody's present pops out of nowhere.
A classic is a work which persists as a background noise even when a present that is totally incompatible with it holds sway.
I find a lot of up-and-coming musicians I enjoy, present them to my viewers - and hopefully inflate the growth of these artists by putting them in front an audience that wouldn't have been aware of them.
Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
Those who try to obliterate the past are injuring the present.
What would be left of our tragedies if an insect were to present us his?
The present government is very insistent that business sponsorship should replace government sponsorship of the arts. Business sponsorship won't happen unless you make tax concessions, which they won't.
It is my intention to present - through the medium of photography - intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the spectators.
I didn't really start writing about the church in earnest until the mid-2000s, so I wasn't present for or a participant in a lot of the John Paul II-era debates about papal authority.
If the present is really all we have, then the present lasts forever.
