One of the hardest things to do is to be present and open and clear about who you are and what you stand for. We all have issues with that.
Scott Bakula
I think the beautiful thing about the past is that it leads you to the present.
Vidya Balan
The entertainment medium of film is particularly tuned to the present imaginations of people at large. A lot of fiction is intensely nostalgic.
J. G. Ballard
'Crash' is a metaphor for what I see as the dehumanizing elements that are present in the world in which we live. We're distanced by the... →
We think we're living in the present, but we're really living in the past.
John Banville
All a work of art can do is present the surface. I can't know the insides of people. I know very little about the inside of myself.
Reading is a majority skill but a minority art. Yet nothing can replace the exact, complicated, subtle communion between absent author and entranced... →
Julian Barnes
There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it.
Roland Barthes
The Intelligence Committee will also examine present counterintelligence programs for the Department of Energy, the National Laboratories, and the... →
Charles Bass
We do not know enough about how the present will lead into the future.
Gregory Bateson