Contemporary Quotes · Page 14

“Mia, I already told you I wasn’t going anywhere. This is where I want to be.”

— Fabiola Francisco

“Lies are like a treadmill with no off switch. You have to keep walking or you'll fall off.”

— Iris St. Clair

I didn't even realize that people bought contemporary art . . . that people actually paid for it.

— Wade Guyton

There are elements to the 19th century which just don't work for contemporary audiences.

— Cary Fukunaga

“The only people who need to fear me, are those that hurt you..." - TDS, Seven Dirty Words”

— Charlotte V. Howard

“You are a more powerful person than you might have ever imagined.” Maxwell D. Kalist.”

— Carla H Krueger

I don't worry whether the period is contemporary or three hundred years ago. Human beings are all alike.

— Genevieve Bujold

Well, I think there are artists who are more or less contemporary with Hopper who are more relevant.

— Donald Judd

“She senses your vulnerability, and reassures that every dream you’ve ever whispered in the night, or secret desires you dared not speak,…

— Holly Ducarte

The essence of the contemporary monetary system is creation of money, out of nothing, by private banks' often foolish lending.

— Martin Wolf

I wanted to know if the 'Iliad' in the original was as relevant and contemporary as it was in translation. I then…

— Caroline Lawrence

Even though the story [Fences] is set during the 1950s, some contemporary women might have trouble understanding her decision.

— Denzel Washington

We need teacher educators who are hungry to learn about and implement contemporary approaches to teaching and learning in their own classrooms…

— Carol Ann Tomlinson

Our world has changed for better or for worse. It is for us to find truth and beauty for today, constantly re-applying…

— Hans Rookmaaker

It's really important that we not replicate what came before us, but we do something of our own, that's reflective of our…

— Peter Clewes

I don't think my looks are modern. I always imagined I'd end up doing Chekhov, Ibsen and Shakespeare all my life and…

— Alex Kingston

I grew up in New Mexico, and the older I get, I have less need for contemporary culture and big cities and…

— Tom Ford

Roberto Cavalli is a great designer. The Just Cavalli brand is very sexy, young and cool. Each collection is very contemporary and…

— Georgia May Jagger

Contemporary American churches in particular do not require following Christ in his example, spirit, and teachings as a condition of membership-either of…

— Dallas Willard

I do get a little shy about contemporary language and events, but I also enjoy the idea of dating myself, somehow, anchoring…

— John K. Samson

Populism in contemporary art can become a dirty word. There is this notion that to not be understood is a reflection of…

— Dario Robleto

Literature that is not the breath of contemporary society, that dares not transmit the pains and fears of that society . .…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

I actually did a quick survey of how caste plays out in contemporary India. The idea that democracy and development have in…

— Arundhati Roy

I make sure the events I do have the element of entertainment that Allah (swt) and his Prophet (pbuh) permit. Having said…

— Junaid Jamshed

If we wish to imitate the physical sciences, we must not imitate them in their contemporary, most developed form; we must imitate…

— Wolfgang Kohler

“His name feels like a secret, and now he's wearing it on his wrist. I want to know all about this girl…

— Robin York

Since substance is infinite, the universe as a whole, i.e., god, Hegel is telling us that philosophy is knowledge of the infinite,…

— Frederick C. Beiser

I simply love classic design when it's reinterpreted. These collections reflect the spirit of this design philosophy; clean pared down lines and…

— Candice Olson

Krys Lee has written a book of unforgettable stories, each one building on the other to create a complex, moving portrait of…

— Sarah Shun-lien Bynum

Contemporary scholars have little explored the preconditions of genocide. Still less have they asked whether a society's weapons policy might be one…

— Daniel D. Polsby

All philosophers make the common mistake of taking contemporary man as their starting point and of trying, through an analysis of him,…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The unfolding through time of all things from one is the simple message, finally, of every one of the creation myths reproduced…

— Joseph Campbell

It's hard to find actors that don't feel contemporary when you put them in a period piece.

— George Clooney

Strangers are contemporary posterity. [Fr., Les etrangers sont la posterite contemporaine.]

— Madame de Stael

I don't think there's a defined contemporary American musical, do you?

— Harold Prince

Enjoy the tiny unexplainable second. You can learn whatever you want.

— Jerril Thomas Abraham

“How do you mourn something that never really belonged to you?”

— Rebecca Serle

Philip Larkin has a tough honesty and sense of humor that I find irresistible, as a contemporary poet.

— Robert Morgan

I probably take a pretty traditional view about hell. I'm not very contemporary in terms of that.

— T. D. Jakes

As a major contemporary composer, Madonna should not let the eye dictate to the ear.

— Camille Paglia