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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
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
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
I feel that if you made your writing too contrived to meet the market, it wouldn't be any good.
— Cathy Marie Buchanan
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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
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 never liked dance photography; it's very flat, and dance photography in the studio looks very contrived.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
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
The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.
— Andrew Jackson
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
Pleasure and pain, though directly opposite are contrived to be constant companions.
— Pierre Charron
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
Sitcom storylines are usually incredibly contrived.
— Josh Thomas
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
