Quotes of: Contemporary-life Keyword

Unfortunately, the Church's position on most contemporary issues makes it hard to take them seriously.

Andres Serrano

I've been very lucky. I've written for most of my idols and the contemporaries.

Alan Zweibel

The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Simone Weil

To have a sense of contemporary ownership of Shakespeare is the most important thing to his work.

Tim Crouch

There is a huge thirst for knowledge among the younger generation for contemporary art, but most of them learn about it by going on the Internet.

Dasha Zhukova

The Ireland I now inhabit is one that these Irish contemporaries have helped to imagine.

Seamus Heaney

Because of the structure of the contemporary American party system, every president is polarizing.

Larry J. Sabato

As contemporary history reminds us we are human to the extent that we are able to chose between alternatives.

John G. D. Clark

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'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