Alex Ebert
Alex Ebert

From about 5 years old on, I was very contemplative and started to become constantly filled with nostalgia for the present moment and the feeling that it's always fleeting.

Amitava Kumar
Amitava Kumar

Ideally, I'd like to write poetry for public performances and prose for a different, more contemplative kind of consumption.

Anne Heche
Anne Heche

Before, I just spewed whatever it was I thought about everything. I tend to be more contemplative now.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

The bearing, rearing, feeding and educating of children; the running of a house with its thousand details; human relationships with their myriad pulls - women's normal occupations in general run counter to creative life, or contemplative life, or saintly life.

Antonio Banderas
Antonio Banderas

In my personal life, I am very contemplative.

Charlie Pierce
Charlie Pierce

Barack Obama is not a man of The Gut, and it is driving official Washington crazy. This is a good thing, because resisting The Gut is what the Constitution is all about, especially in its war powers, which this president is conspicuously contemplative about exercising, at least in every context except launching drones.

Dave Morris
Dave Morris

In good writing, the contemplative and the exciting happen at the same time.

David Means
David Means

Americans are pragmatic; we want quick, clean, simple solutions to vast problems. The paradox is that we're a deeply confessional culture, but we're not often contemplative.

David Whyte
David Whyte

All of our great traditions, religious, contemplative and artistic, say that you must a learn how to be alone - and have a relationship with silence. It is difficult, but it can start with just the tiniest quiet moment.

Derek Jacobi
Derek Jacobi

He was somebody who made me think, I suppose, about the contemplative life. I've always been a city fellow, but I've often had vague thoughts about 'checking out' and perhaps going into a monastery and just seeing what it was like.