Contemporary Quotes

644 quotes by 564 authors

I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets. That kind of… — Paul Auster
Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy of one. — Wystan Hugh Auden
Obviously I always wanted to do a contemporary piece. — Orlando Bloom
I have learned to interface - what I think would be the contemporary term - with various different lexicons, and people speak very different languages.… — Bono
The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap. — Spiro T. Agnew
The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing. — Jorge Luis Borges
While I love to read contemporary fiction, I'm not drawn to writing it. Perhaps it's because the former journalist in me is too inhibited by… — Geraldine Brooks
One way or another, we all have to find what best fosters the flowering of our humanity in this contemporary life, and dedicate ourselves to… — Joseph Campbell
Maya Angelou, the famous African American poet, historian, and civil rights activist who is hailed be many as one of the great voices of contemporary… — Michael N. Castle
If the individual is to be happy in the contemporary order, he must be open-minded with respect to new values and new arrangements. — Thomas Cochrane
I consulted a Chinese herbalist and spent two weeks on an island off the coast of Zanzibar. I was away from any kind of contemporary… — Francesca Annis
Body and soul, Black America reveals the extreme questions of contemporary life, questions of freedom and identity: How can I be who I am? — June Jordan
The joyful news that He is risen does not change the contemporary world. Still before us lie work, discipline, sacrifice. But the fact of Easter… — Henry Knox Sherrill
Look at Satan's reason for rebelling against God. It's not that he doesn't recognize that God is greater than he is. He does. It's just… — Dinesh D'Souza
You cannot simply put something new into a place. You have to absorb what you see around you, what exists on the land, and then… — Tadao Ando
A sort of war of revenge on the intellect is what, for some reason, thrives in the contemporary social atmosphere. — Wyndham Lewis
Contemporary philosophers, even the rationalistic minded ones, have on the whole agreed that no one has intelligibly banished the mystery of fact. — William James
With 'Bright Star' and with 'The Piano,' too, I felt a kind of sadness about it being in such a different era, because of my… — Jane Campion
Science is not a system of certain, or -established, statements; nor is it a system which steadily advances towards a state of finality... And our… — Karl Popper
The reason why new concepts in any branch of science are hard to grasp is always the same; contemporary scientists try to picture the new… — Freeman Dyson

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