Contemporary Quotes

644 Contemporary quotes by 549 unique authors

It is impossible for any Christian who spends the bulk of his evenings, month after month, week upon week, day in and day out watching… — R. Kent Hughes
Theology is a serious quest for the true knowledge of God, undertaken in response to His self-revelation, illumined by Christian tradition, manifesting a rational inner… — John Stott
The most damaging aspect of contemporary living is short-term thinking. — Rick Warren
Disney is our contemporary landscape. The best art will reflect that and challenge you. Disney comforts you, whereas the best art shakes up your comfort… — Jeffrey Deitch
The task of cinema or any other art form is not to translate hidden messages of the unconscious soul into art but to experiment with… — Maya Deren
Contemporary thinkers would say that man is continuously transcending himself. — Gabriel Marcel
My mother was a classical pianist and my stepfather was an industrialist who was passionate about composing contemporary music. — Carla Bruni
The history of the development of contemporary writing in Vancouver from 1946 to 1960 is pretty largely a one-man show, and that man was me. — Earle Birney
What stuns me most about contemporary politics is not even that the system has been so badly corrupted by money. It is that so few… — Molly Ivins
SF is an opportunity to have an intense relationship with your own imagination. It's a kind of drive-by poetry, trashy and addictive; it's fun. After… — M. John Harrison
A contemporary artist can use the findings of all epochs and all styles, from the most primitive literary expressions up to the most refined products… — Juan Goytisolo
The essence of the contemporary monetary system is creation of money, out of nothing, by private banks' often foolish lending. — Martin Wolf
One cannot set out to make a work that's spiritual. What is a contemporary iconography for the spiritual? Is it some fuzzy space? — Anish Kapoor
When Glenda Jackson reveals that she has never been in a relationship with a man in which he hasn't raised his fists to her, I… — Auberon Waugh
All history is contemporary history. — Benedetto Croce
I think I will just use guitar as backing. I'm not doing a traditional folk thing, but a contemporary thing-my own version of folk, if… — Cat Stevens
In 1917 European history, in the old sense, came to an end. World history began. It was the year of Lenin and Woodrow Wilson, both… — A J P Taylor
It takes a great deal of time and thought to install work carefully. This should not always be thrown away. Most art is fragile and… — Donald Judd
If I take a less defensive tone, I'd admit that I couldn't write today a very jazzy, contemporary look at America as I did in… — Edmund White
Consider the cost when Christians ignore Jesus commands to sell their possessions and give to the poor and instead choose to spend their resources on… — David Platt
However, the difficulties and pleasures of the writing itself are similar for a novel with a historical setting and a novel with a contemporary setting,… — Helen Dunmore
It is a paradox in the contemporary world that in our desire for peace we must willingly give ourselves to struggle. — Linda Hogan
The '90s are really the 'Sex and the City' woman, and I think, right now, the new contemporary woman is the 'Lipstick Jungle' woman. — Candace Bushnell
Contemporary architects tend to impose modernity on something. There is a certain concern for history but it’s not very deep. I understand that time has… — I. M. Pei
I simply love classic design when it's reinterpreted. These collections reflect the spirit of this design philosophy; clean pared down lines and forms rooted in… — Candice Olson

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