Quotes of: Contemporary-society Keyword

The devastating punch we took on September 11th still reverberates throughout American society.

Joe Biden

If you say one gets influenced watching a character, I think it's foolish. Cinema reflects society; society rarely reflects cinema.

Kajol

The circumstances of human society are too complicated to be submitted to the rigor of mathematical calculation.

Marquis De Custine

The American automobile has changed the habits of every member of modern society.

Raymond Loewy

Not only is the self entwined in society; it owes society its existence in the most literal sense.

Theodor Adorno

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

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

Russell M. Nelson

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