Contemporary Quotes · Page 30

Contemporary art hates you.

— John Waters

Alan [Lomax] and his father started off changing the definition of folk music from something ancient and anonymous to something very contemporary.

— Pete Seeger

I've always loved the blues, ever since I was a kid. It has a depth to it that a lot of contemporary…

— Nickolas Ashford

“I am Not, but the Universe is my Self.”

— Shih-t'ou

Much modern art is, at first sight, unnerving... in the contemporary world, we have come to expect instant response and immediate understanding.

— Nicholas Serota

“...Love can give you the most exhilarating wonderful highs at times... ...Then there will be dives that will take all you have…

— Elizabeth Funderbirk

I write about the trials and triumphs of contemporary life - and often the readers see themselves between the lines of the…

— Karen Kingsbury

“I don’t know why Kate was trying to impress him, as far as I could see the guy had all the allure…

— Sharon Sant

In reality, genuine epiphanies are extremely rare. In contemporary adult life maturation & acquiescence to reality are gradual processes. Modern usage usually…

— David Foster Wallace

A church of dialogue in the contemporary world... a church, taking on the mission of Jesus, which is in the world not…

— Claudio Hummes

I don't think that modesty is the outstanding characteristic of contemporary politics, do you?

— Edward Heath

I read recently that the problem with stereotypes isn't that they are inaccurate, but that they're incomplete. And this captures perfectly what…

— Taiye Selasi

Contemporary philosophers have exercised themselves with the problem of our knowledge of other minds. Enmeshed in the dogma of the ghost in…

— Gilbert Ryle

I wrote a call to the contemporary Muslim conscience, saying to the ordinary people that we might not like the video or…

— Tariq Ramadan

Catchphrases flourish in contemporary American English.

— P. J. O'Rourke

Modern art to me is nothing more than the expression of contemporary aims of the age we’re living in All cultures have…

— Jackson Pollock

In Portugal, my sculpture 'She Changes' refers to the town's fishing history, to the era of seafaring trade and discovery. The contemporary…

— Janet Echelman

It's become very popular in contemporary films to have the twist ending.

— Bill Paxton

Just as primitive man believed himself to stand face to face with demons and believed that could he but know their names…

— Karl Jaspers

The problem, when comparing contemporary television to television in 1974, is that TV has become not just bad but sad.

— P. J. O'Rourke

Contemporary society has become dry, not for lack of wonders but for lack of wonder.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

“You don’t need a crown to be a Princess. You don’t even need a Prince. You just have to believe that you…

— Ella Dominguez

The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.

— Jorge Luis Borges

If I actually believed that the progress of human understanding depended on our crop of contemporary novelists, I would shoot myself.

— Annie Dillard

The war against Russia is an important chapter in the German nation's struggle for existence. [...] The objective of this battle must…

— Franz Halder