Contemporary Quotes · Page 7

I detest this contemporary trend to destroy the traditional hierarchy of genres.

— Italo Calvino

The whole rise of new adult contemporary music and smooth jazz was a nice surprise.

— Kenny G

“I love you to insanity. I'm not even sure if it's a good thing.'' — Duke”

— Stephanie Witter

“Well, strap my ass to a flagpole and hoist it skyward' an all to familiar voice declared.”

— Keri Arthur

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

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

— Donald Judd

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

— Charlotte V. Howard

The Democratic Party's rigidly pro-choice stance is one of the more unyielding positions in contemporary American politics.

— Ross Douthat

I don't see boundaries between styles, such as modern or contemporary. I've collected each piece from a different experience or period of…

— Carlos Miele

The big picture, I think, is that common ancestry is evidentially prior to natural selection in Darwin's theory and in contemporary evolutionary…

— Elliott Sober

I'm drawn to making movies about contemporary life. The reason I choose institutions is because they provide a limit, a boundary.

— Frederick Wiseman

During my career I've enjoyed re-invigorating and contextualizing classic characters that are relatable to contemporary audiences.

— David S. Goyer

My mother was a classical pianist and my stepfather was an industrialist who was passionate about composing contemporary music.

— Carla Bruni

I think I will just use guitar as backing. I'm not doing a traditional folk thing, but a contemporary thing-my own version…

— Cat Stevens

There is a lack of context in contemporary education. And contemporary consideration - because we live in those interiorities so much. Especially…

— Frederick Busch

I love how outside of the box, contemporary, and artistic Loewe is, at the same time as being just simply beautiful. You…

— Taylor Russell

The coming peril is the intellectual, educational, psychological and artistic overproduction, which, equally with economic overproduction, threatens the well-being of contemporary civilisation.…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

This socialism will develop in all its phases until it reaches its own extremes and absurdities. Then once again a cry of…

— Alexander Herzen

The only thing I wanted to accomplish was to finally get recognized by the music industry. If you know the awards, answer…

— Sharon Jones

“Impressive," Court offered, gallantly bending to retrieve the shoe. "You should join the theater." "Fuck you." "I owed you that." "Revenge is…

— Finn Marlowe

By virtue of the way it has organized its technological base, contemporary industrial society tends to be totalitarian. For "totalitarian" is not…

— Herbert Marcuse

You don't have to try to be contemporary. You are already contemporary. What one has in mythology is being evolved all the…

— Jorge Luis Borges

WWII is something contemporary readers already know a lot about. If our schools are doing their jobs, they know about the invasion…

— Anthony Doerr

Isaac Watts, of course, is a hymn writer in the tradition of Congregationalism who lived in the seventeenth and early eighteenth century.…

— Marilynne Robinson

I imagine that as contemporary music goes on changing in the way that I'm changing it what will be done is to…

— John Cage

“You turn the lights on and off here and if you can’t sleep and want something to read there are books in…

— Shannon MacLeod

Nerds are running the world. Andrew Garfield made a movie [called “The Social Network”] about it. Nerds are no longer pariahs and…

— Marc Webb

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 use of electronics is a natural extension of the instrument - it is an electric guitar. So we guitarists have been…

— Tim Brady

Contemporary Christian proclamation is faced with the question whether, when it demands faith from men and women, it expects them to acknowledge…

— Rudolf Bultmann

There is nothing “still” in the remarkably visceral poems of Alexander Long's third collection, Still Life, and nothing is at rest in…

— David St. John

“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

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

— Cary Fukunaga

To have a sense of contemporary ownership of Shakespeare is the most important thing to his work.

— Tim Crouch

“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

The most damaging aspect of contemporary living is short-term thinking.

— Rick Warren