Contemporary Quote by Salman Rushdie Download Open image “The problem of telling contemporary history is that your message gets outdated.” — Salman Rushdie ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.0 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Contemporary Gets History Message Messages Outdated Problem Your
The truth is that history constantly presents new problems in the guise of old. — William Pfaff Copy Share Image
The idea that historians write the definitive version of something that will last for all time is less current than it used to be. — Norman Davies Copy Share Image
History is just the present in retrospect. Times change but people do not. — Jeanne C. Stein Copy Share Image
We live in an era with no historical precedents. History is no longer useful as a tool in helping us understand current changes. — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
History should not be written to make the present generation feel good but to remind us that human affairs are complicated. — Margaret MacMillan Copy Share Image
History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth. — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
“History is not the past – it is the method we have evolved of organising our ignorance of the past” — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
History isn't really about the past - settling old scores. It's about defining the present and who we are. — Ken Burns Copy Share Image
When you're changing centuries, people get curious about the future. — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
If my child had prejudice in his head, I'd be ashamed. I would see it as my failure as a parent. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Sometimes by a woodland stream he watched the water rush over the pebbled bed, its tiny modulations of bounce and flow. A woman's body… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I want to write novels. I want to write stories. I want to do the stuff that I became a writer to do. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
If you want to be a serious writer, then you have to write what there is to write about. If you're going to pull… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Después de exigir mi marcha, ya no posees jurisdicción en lo concerniente a mi salud.” — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
If there is a choice between absolute safety and freedom, then freedom must always prevail. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I'm not a prophet, but I always thought it was natural for dictatorships to fall. I remember in 1989, two months before the fall… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I'd wanted to create a storm so that I could become more famous and richer. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Who what am I? My answer: I am the sum total of everything that went before me, of all I have been seen done,… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“information, in a stream-of-consciousness soliloquy that revealed the extent to which he had internalised the adversarial fragmentation of American culture and made it a… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
In the future, I would like to do more films with contemporary themes. Perhaps comedy, which is something I have done in theater but… — Luke Evans Copy Share Image
Personally, I prefer contemporary films, but the market calls for more period choices, especially since China opened up a cinema market in Hong Kong.… — Donnie Yen Copy Share Image
“Men circle like bees around honey, buzzing to communicate their sexual despair.” — Carla H Krueger Copy Share Image
What really concerns me is for Christians to understand the fundamentals of evangelism in a way that is helpful in the contemporary scene. — Mark Dever Copy Share Image
“And for God's sake, don't let her watch Cinderella. What kind of example is that? A mindless twit who can't even remember where she… — Emma Chase Copy Share Image
On the one hand, we had great filmic spectacles that brought in big audiences, adults as well as primary and secondary school students. On… — Andrzej Wajda Copy Share Image
“No." I pulled away just enough to lock my eyes with his. His crooked smile sent shivers down my spine. His eyes were a… — Stephanie Witter Copy Share Image
One of those blocks (that prevent the 'Middle East from entering the mainstream of modernity') is the orthodox tenet that the Koran and the… — Arnold Beichman Copy Share Image
The boundaries between contemporary art and cinema are so rigid. It's unbelievable. The film critics don't know my artwork and the art world doesn't… — Agnes Varda Copy Share Image
I'm educating myself more about world poetry. I know a lot about contemporary American poetry, so I felt I needed to learn more about… — Allison Joseph Copy Share Image
We have created indoor installations inside museums, like the Wrapped Floor at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago in 1968, and not monumental… — Christo Copy Share Image
Going back to the noir fiction of the 30s, 40s and 50s. It's very contemporary. — Jeff Goldblum Copy Share Image
