Contemporary Quotes · Page 7

Contemporary man is blind to the fact that, with all his rationality and efficiency, he is possessed by "powers" that are beyond…

— Carl Jung

If I were asked about what to do about the level of insecurity and anxiety in contemporary Australian society, I wouldn't start…

— Hugh Mackay

[Riccardo Tisci ] has an interesting approach to weaving the contemporary with the couture, and blending tribes and collections. It always seems…

— Erykah Badu

Imagination without skill gives us contemporary art.

— Tom Stoppard

Many of Islam's apologists insist that suicide bombing is not Islamic because the Koran forbids suicide. Mmm-hmm. So where are all the…

— Jamie Glazov

I realized with Broadway everything written for black people is usually written in the past, and I'm kind of a contemporary guy.…

— Chris Rock

“I can see the stars in your eyes from a mile away. They guide me to you just like the North Star.”…

— Kelly Curry

I find her [Frances Trollope] simply delightful, even in her prejudices and cantankerousness. It is a gift to an author to find…

— Charles R. Morris

“A tightrope walker uncertain if he could make it to the other side probably would not. A race car driver wondering if…

— Roy L. Pickering Jr

One of the sad things about contemporary journalism is that it actually matters very little. The world now is almost inured to…

— David Simon

Why is contemporary China short of works that speak directly? Because we writers cannot speak directly, or rather we can only speak…

— Murong Xuecun

I saw how you could get away with such a free-spirited, naturalistic sensibility in a mainstream Hollywood movie, and you could apply…

— David Gordon Green

Love, according to our contemporary poets, is a privilege which two beings confer upon one another, whereby they may mutually cause one…

— Honore de Balzac

Contemporary Christianity, diverse and complex as we find it, actually may show more unanimity than the Christian churches of the first and…

— Elaine Pagels

If you look at how great artists of the past, like Beethoven, for example dealt with art and morality, you see that…

— Tariq Ramadan

“At least, for once I was there for her. I didn’t fail her. She wasn’t alone. — Duke”

— Stephanie Witter

Female Chauvinist Pigs is smart, alarming, and extremely funny. With nuance and humor, Levy has written both a convincing expos of sex…

— Cathleen Schine

I see contemporary violence as a kind of sardonic response to the promise of consumer fulfilment in America.

— Don DeLillo

I started reading contemporary fiction in college or right after college. It wasn't as if I was steeped in experimental minimalism when…

— Leni Zumas

Like contemporary poetry, philosophy is one of those things, especially at the beginning stages, most people would rather do than study -…

— Samuel R. Delany

In this tour around the world I was not interested in contemporary buildings because I had seen contemporary buildings actually until they…

— Minoru Yamasaki

The fact that so many people choose to live in ways that narrow the community of fate to a very limited set…

— Margaret Levi

It is in the elements that we found ourselves; even though the elements are not the, same Now.

— Jerril Thomas Abraham

“Tonight, after we're done with the bank, we're going to finish this. Somewhere it's just the two of us. But if I…

— Melissa Cutler

I know that in some ways I operate from a kind of antiquated interest in imagery, while many contemporary poets are not…

— Martha Ronk