Contemporary Quotes

644 Contemporary quotes by 549 unique authors

Although contemporary advertising is relatively young, it already has a considerable tradition. Each new ad is encountered against a background of thousands of earlier ads. — Guy Cook
To appeal to contemporary man to revert, in this twentieth century, to a pagan-like nature worship in order to restrain technology from further encroachment and… — Norman Lamm
Contemporary society has become dry, not for lack of wonders but for lack of wonder. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Now I do not myself share that superstitious reverence for the beliefs of common sense which many contemporary philosophers profess. But I think that we… — C. D. Broad
Contemporary man is blind to the fact that, with all his rationality and efficiency, he is possessed by "powers" that are beyond his control. His… — Carl Jung
Contemporary scholars have little explored the preconditions of genocide. Still less have they asked whether a society's weapons policy might be one of the institutional… — Daniel D. Polsby
"Nothing ever happens like you imagine it will," she says. The sky is like a monochromatic contemporary painting, drawing me in with its illusion of… — John Green
Liebig himself seems to have occupied the role of a gate, or sorting-demon, such as his younger contemporary Clerk Maxwell once proposed, helping to concentrate… — Thomas Pynchon
Commercial rock 'n' roll music is a brutalization of the stream of contemporary Negro church music an obscene looting of a cultural expression. — Ralph Ellison
Our world has changed for better or for worse. It is for us to find truth and beauty for today, constantly re-applying the truth of… — Hans Rookmaaker
When you're surfing you're not thinking about where you parked the car or what you're going to do when you grow up or what you're… — Tim Winton
It is the misfortune of contemporary leaders, across the whole spectrum of Australian life, that the community's demand for strong leadership is growing in direct… — Hugh Mackay
I don't know much about contemporary music. I do have an iPod but I listen to a lot of old blues. I listen to John… — Robert Pattinson
The contemporary artist...is not bound to a fully conceived, previsioned end. His mind is kept alert to in-process discovery and a working rapport is established… — Jerry Uelsmann
Contemporary political theorists continue this type of thinking about democracy by arguing that the development of "public judgment" among regular citizens should be made the… — Kevin Mattson
This dilettantish inability to comprehend the essential issues of the conduct of production affairs is not only manifested in the writings of Marx and Engels.… — Ludwig von Mises
Democracy in the contemporary world demands, among other things, an educated and informed people. — Elizabeth Bishop
The best reason to be assigned, in this case, for not having made the Constitution more free from a charge of uncertainty in its meaning,… — James Madison
It is the system of nationalist individualism that has to go....We are living in the end of the sovereign states....In the great struggle to evoke… — H.G. Wells
They're great instrumentalists, singers and songwriters and they have this unique way of blending contemporary with traditional. The result is this beautiful mix of timeless… — Unknown Author
Passonate, irreverent, utterly relevant, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk offers an unforgettable portrait of a reluctant hero. Ben Fountain writes like a man inspired and… — Margot Livesey
At what price do we get our news? The role of economics in defining the nature of contemporary journalism has never been better explained. A… — Marvin Kalb
I didn't want to make 'high' art, I had no interest in using paint, I wanted to find something that anyone could relate to without… — Cindy Sherman
It's become very popular in contemporary films to have the twist ending. — Bill Paxton
I don't like to intellectualize about my acting. I don't sit around and study the pages of a script over and over again. I don't… — Genevieve Bujold

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