Contemporary Quotes · Page 28

Contemporary audiences, other than those making a deliberate historical leap, would find, say, the 1931 'Dracula' impossibly slow.

— Andrew Tudor

We took Beowulf, the epic poem in Old English, and put it right together with John Gardner's contemporary retelling. If you bring…

— Julie Taymor

When you're surfing you're not thinking about where you parked the car or what you're going to do when you grow up…

— Tim Winton

The dissolution of the pictorial into sheer texture, into apparently sheer sensation, into an accumulation of repetitions, seems to speak for and…

— Clement Greenberg

I listen to a mixture of old jazz, contemporary, pop, some world beat stuff and various odds and ends.

— Walter Becker

It smells terrible in here.' Well, what do you expect? The human body, when confined, produces certain odors which we tend to…

— John Kennedy Toole

When I try to sound like the contemporary sound, it never turns out that way. That's just me.

— Nas

[Takashi] Murakami, do you think he is spiritual? He is more like de-spiritualized. De-spiritualized might be the most contemporary aspect of the…

— Hiroshi Sugimoto

I am committed to the idea of information politics. That is how contemporary politics are played out.

— Natalie Jeremijenko

I don't like to read contemporary fiction while writing - I need a sense of isolation, a kind of silence, and I…

— Cynthia Ozick

I didn't want to make 'high' art, I had no interest in using paint, I wanted to find something that anyone could…

— Cindy Sherman

Cubism is not a manner but an aesthetic, and even a state of mind; it is therefore inevitably connected with every manifestation…

— Juan Gris

“There’s only so much a man can survive and as fucking weak as it sounds, I reached my limits when Skye disappeared.…

— Stephanie Witter

Singing 'Blowin' in the Wind' all the places we've been, it takes on a different meaning everywhere. When you sing the line,…

— Mary Travers

The primary goal of collectivism - of socialism in Europe and contemporary liberalism in America - is to enlarge governmental supervision of…

— George Will

For the judging of contemporary literature the only test is one's personal taste. If you much like a new book, you must…

— Ford Madox Ford

But these days, I get a lot more attention and airplay from the Adult Contemporary and country radio stations, and I feel…

— Juice Newton

My stories are full of facts; they have a beginning and an end. For that reason, they will never... occupy a place…

— Italo Calvino

As for whether genre considerations influence what I write, they don't at all, but I might sell more books if they did.…

— Elizabeth Crook

In my view, only those who have had the courage to work through Lacan's anti-philosophy without faltering deserve to be called 'contemporary…

— Alain Badiou

“Lacing my fingers through his, I studied them. His fingers were so much longer than mine, and I envisioned what those fingers…

— Victoria H. Smith

“It seemed everything that had ever lived and died in this world had passed through here, had left its indelible imprint.”

— Sarah Ockler

The fact that fairy tales remain a literary underdog-undervalued and undermined-even as they shape so many popular stories, redoubles my certainty that…

— Kate Bernheimer

To Forget Venice is a tour de force of ventriloquism. Elegant, contemporary, and wry, the voice at its center is also capable…

— Chase Twichell

The difference between a contemporary liberal and a socialist is that to a liberal the most beautiful word in the English language…

— John McCarthy