Quotes of: Contemporary-history Keyword

One of the great currents in the contemporary experience of art is that it seems to come out of the experience of the author.

Anish Kapoor

Anxiety is the handmaiden of contemporary ambition.

Status Anxiety

I've come to realize that the contemporary creative culture is not generating the best possible outcome.

Elizabeth Gilbert

I don't listen to the contemporary pop artists. They all sound alike, anyway.

Patti LuPone

I really don't take any interest at all in contemporary comedy.

Paul Merton

The contemporary authors I most admire are Nick Hornby and Jonathan Tropper.

Mike Greenberg

Truth is what your contemporaries let you get away with.

Richard M. Rorty

In fact, I don't watch a lot of contemporary comedy for fear of being influenced by it.

Paul Merton

I don't think there's a defined contemporary American musical, do you?

Harold Prince

Mother's interest in contemporary American artists emerged during the 1920s.

David Rockefeller

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

Carla Bruni

These wealthy people were very interested in contemporary music. They wanted to help diffuse it and get it to be known to other people.

Elliott Carter

I am a classical music lover - not necessarily the contemporary stuff, but the old stuff.

Eberhard Weber

Writing songs is about trying to connect with people on a deeper spiritual level - but I'm not a fan of contemporary Christian music.

Ryan Tedder

Not that many people, even contemporary writers, write about right now.

Anna Deavere Smith

The history of philosophy is not, like the history of the sciences, to be studied with the intellect alone. That which is receptive in us and that which impinges upon us from history is the reality of man's being, unfolding itself in thought.

Karl Jaspers

Happy the people whose annals are blank in history books.

History of Friedrich II of Prussia

To know the history of science is to recognize the mortality of any claim to universal truth.

Reflections on Gender and Science

The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice!

Dwight D. Eisenhower

September 11 was terrible but, if one goes back over the history of the IRA, what happened to the Americans wasn't that terrible.

Doris Lessing

During the Sixties, the Americans thought I was the greatest thing in the history of cinema.

Michael Winner