Quotes of: Contemporary-history Keyword

Contemplation of life after retirement and life after death can help you deal with contemporary challenges.

Russell M. Nelson

You can't get a contemporary story about what is going on inside government, and how society sees itself, on American TV.

David Hare

In the future, I would like to do more films with contemporary themes. Perhaps comedy, which is something I have done in theater but not in cinema.

Luke Evans

I write about the trials and triumphs of contemporary life - and often the readers see themselves between the lines of the story.

Karen Kingsbury

A man lives not only his personal life, as an individual, but also, consciously or unconsciously, the life of his epoch and his contemporaries.

Thomas Mann

I'm not doing contemporary songs unless something comes along that really knocks my socks off.

Frankie Valli

The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.

Jorge Luis Borges

Mother's taste was eclectic and ranged from the ancient world to the contemporary from Europe to the U.S.

David Rockefeller

Even the contemporary horror authors who have seriously influenced me are a disparate bunch.

George Stephen

I think book clubs should read more contemporary poetry.

Chang-Rae Lee

Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy of one.

W. H. Auden

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

The problem, when comparing contemporary television to television in 1974, is that TV has become not just bad but sad.

P. J. O'Rourke

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 technology.

Francesca Annis

Unquestionably, our contemporary world of music is far richer, in a sense, than earlier periods, due to the historical and geographical extensions of culture to which I have referred.

George Crumb

In the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra we play such a diversity of music, with 10 arrangers in the band, we don't really worry about whether it's contemporary or not.

Wynton Marsalis

I write contemporary fiction, and that is what my readers want to read.

Alex Flinn

Contemporary poets got so obscure that poetry kind of fell out of favor,

Love

I never paid attention to what was contemporary or what was commercial, it didn't mean anything to me.

Van Morrison

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

But, number one, I think traditional noir doesn't work in contemporary storytelling because we don't live in that world anymore.

Brian De Palma