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Scientific theory is a contrived foothold in the chaos of living phenomena. — Wilhelm Reich

And your man?' He hesitates. 'Long dead too?' It is the most delicate way that can be contrived, to ask a man if he has killed someone. — Hilary Mantel

ALGEBRA is a general Method of Computation by certain Signs and Symbols which have been contrived for this Purpose, and found convenient. — Colin Maclaurin

There is change by necessity or adaptation, and there is contrived change or novelty. — Wendell Berry

The ridiculous way we thought male, female, as pants or skirt. Suddenly, the whole sexual universe and its conventions seemed fantastic, contrived. — Janet Fitch

A growing nation is the greatest ponzi game ever contrived. — Paul Samuelson

There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn. - SAMUEL JOHNSON — Kingsley Amis

People no longer live by sun and moon, by wind and stars, but by some slyly contrived conventions known as clocks and calendars. — Matthew Goldman

We fiction writers are a brazen lot, are we not? For we, in our passion, embrace just enough truth to consecrate our delicately contrived lies. — Val Edward Simone

Great men are the modelers, patterns, and in a wide sense creators, of whatsoever the general mass of men contrived to do and attain. — Thomas Carlyle

The bad stuff that is part and parcel of contrived social existence takes a back seat when you concentrate on the heart of Life itself. — Valley Brown

Cupid is naked and does not like artifices contrived by beauty. — Propertius

My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived. — John Adams

All in Dali is indeed contrived, a brilliant illustration of his own psyche as he understands it, as opposed to how it truly may have been. — Wendy Beckett

If anyone can crack the publicity nut and figure out how to not come across hammy and contrived, I'd love to talk to them. — Gale Harold

My records do not require a lot of thought of 'What is this?' and 'What is that?' That would be too contrived for me. — Van Morrison

If coincidences are just coincidences, why do they feel so contrived? — Clyde Bruckman

I feel that if you made your writing too contrived to meet the market, it wouldn't be any good. — Cathy Marie Buchanan

Greek is doubtless the most perfect [language] that has been contrived by the art of man. — Edward Gibbon

The (Academy Award) ceremonies are a two-hour meat parade, a public display with contrived suspense for economic reasons. — George C. Scott

The contrived language and the flattering attitude rarely come with the virtue. — Confucius

The armored cars of dreams, contrived to let us do so many a dangerous thing. — Elizabeth Bishop

After a while, a joke, if you say it too much, just becomes contrived, or fake-sounding. — Dave Chappelle

The truth is funny. Honest discovery, observation, and reaction is better than contrived invention. — Del Close

She had on a blue bonnet, and with a pair of lovely eyes of the same colour, has contrived to make me feel devilish odd about the heart. — Susanna Rowson

Your look shouldn't be contrived. — Leigh Lezark

Corporately contrived art product replaces inspired intellectual property with ineffectual poperty. — Vanna Bonta

All great song, from the first day when human lips contrived syllables, has been sincere song. — John Ruskin

I sing in five or six different voices that are all part of me. It's not contrived. — Axl Rose

Only equals make friends, every other relationship is contrived and off balance. — Maya Angelou

I think people dismiss celebrity memoirs as unreal, contrived and maybe partially made up. But that's definitely not true for anything that I write. — Hilary Liftin

I never liked dance photography; it's very flat, and dance photography in the studio looks very contrived. — Mikhail Baryshnikov

I think there's a lot to be said about just enjoying your work. It can be very contrived when people say their work is for the good of mankind. — Ben Horowitz

Nothing is contrived. At night, the clothes should pour like liquid over the body. — Oscar De La Renta

A character to me can't be contrived. I don't like to contrive characters. They have to have an element of truth. — Jack Kirby

It's part of my job to maintain the emotional reality and the naturalism even when the atmosphere is contrived. — Michel Gondry

Gentlemen can now only behave as such, or be tolerated as such, in circumstances that are manifestly contrived or unreal. — Simon Raven

Personality is everything that's false in a human: everything that's been added on to him and contrived. — Sam Shepard

A character who is thought-out is not born, he or she is contrived. A born character is round, a thought-out character is flat. — Rex Stout

The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality. — Andrew Jackson

Leadership can't be forced or contrived. It has to be your personality. — Aaron Rodgers

Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

He looked home-made, as though his wife had self-consciously knitted or somehow contrived a husband when she sat alone at night. — Eudora Welty

We did not follow cleverly contrived myths when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. 2 Peter 1:16 — Beth Moore

Pleasure and pain, though directly opposite are contrived to be constant companions. — Pierre Charron

You see reality TV and it's not reality TV. It's contrived and everything is plotted and scripted nearly. Documentaries are the same and just as bad. — Ricky Gervais

I had great difficulty in school interacting with others, and I took refuge in the contrived setting of play acting, which is what I still do. — Jesse Eisenberg

We only do what feels right. If something feels forced or contrived, then we pull back. We remain the Foo Fighters. — Dave Grohl

Life is made up of constant calls to action, and we seldom have time for more than hastily contrived answers. — Learned Hand

History has many cunning passages, contrived corridors and issues. — T. S. Eliot

Sitcom storylines are usually incredibly contrived. — Josh Thomas

I wonder what her fate will be?' 'What we've all contrived to make it,' he — Edith Wharton

It destroys the soul to hear that you're all hype, that you have no talent, and that your whole career has been contrived. — Freddie Mercury

If coincidences are coincidences, why do they feel so contrived?
Words by Fox Mulder on the X-Files — Kathy Goodhew

Creativity is never too contrived. — Albert Watson

The greatest enemy of truth is often not the lie - deliberate, contrived and dishonest - but the myth - persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. — Steve Berry