Contemporary Quotes · Page 49

Contemporary culture in Pakistan, just like in America, is continuously hitting us with scary stuff. And so we are utterly anxious. I…

— Mohsin Hamid

There are contemporary artists that I hate with all my heart. These are provocateurs that are without feeling. Where is the real…

— Paolo Sorrentino

The reason why new concepts in any branch of science are hard to grasp is always the same; contemporary scientists try to…

— Freeman Dyson

We may play in a contemporary rock vein, use standard bebop themes, and many other things besides.

— Chuck Mangione

I have trouble reading modern Hebrew. In the 1950s, I could read anything. I don't know how much experience you've had with…

— Noam Chomsky

Of all the human evils, of which we have thousands of years of record and our own contemporary experiences, the most horrible…

— Francis Ford Coppola

“Sometimes...the hardest part about letting someone go is realizing that you were never meant to have them.”

— Rebecca Serle

A contemporary or near-future book is much harder because you can't fake the facts. There are people alive who know much more…

— Steven Pressfield

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

— Charlotte V. Howard

I suppose in a way most of my characters are non-consumers, not terribly interested in all the little baubles and artifacts of…

— Jonathan Lethem

I know I'm a rare person, a trained scientist who writes fiction, because so few contemporary novelists engage with science.

— Barbara Kingsolver

My priciple is, the artist shall put forth, humbly & lovingly, without bitterness, the very best & highest that is within him,utterly…

— Sidney Lanier

It's interesting how as an artist you keep evolving, but if you can get into the contemporary art space, if the works…

— Kalup Linzy

This dilettantish inability to comprehend the essential issues of the conduct of production affairs is not only manifested in the writings of…

— Ludwig von Mises

Contemporary criticism only represents the amount of ignorance genius has to contend with. . . . Time will reverse the judgement of the vulgar.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“His grip on my shoulder tightens. His other hand behind my head caresses me softly and I sigh. "Touch me, Skye." His…

— Stephanie Witter

“I’m warning you because you’re young and vulnerable. He’s a dirty, lying, conniving piece of shit and he’s dangerous.” Gottfried Baumauer.”

— Carla H Krueger

I have put [the word] "discoveries" in inverted commas because scientific results, perhaps as much at least as artistic achievements, are a…

— Stephen Bayley

Given the unprecedented ignorance of the Bible in contemporary America, it is likely that more young Americans will only know the Noah…

— Dennis Prager

If I thought that any poem of mine could have been written by anyone else, either a contemporary or a forerunner, I…

— Robert Graves

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

— Dario Robleto

For me, personally, the most interesting music comes from the popular sector - from film and pop music - since contemporary classical…

— Aleksey Igudesman

I listen to very little music, particularly contemporary. If I listen to it, it's going to be my own music, some arrangement…

— Kate Bush

I'm a big believer in pairing classics with contemporary literature, so students have the opportunity to see that literature is not a…

— John Green

Beyond the mythology, Wonder Woman gets to play with several dichotomies. It's Amazon culture versus man's world; ancient mythological times versus the…

— Bruce Timm