Quotes of: Contemporary Keyword

I don't worry whether the period is contemporary or three hundred years ago. Human beings are all alike.

Genevieve Bujold

The intellectual debility of contemporary conservatism is indicated by its silence on all important matters.

Christopher Lasch

As a major contemporary composer, Madonna should not let the eye dictate to the ear.

Camille Paglia

The way contemporary literature is emerging, soon we can expect "Item poetry" in novels.

Himmilicious

Contemporary bands often will do tour-only releases pressed and sold only in Australia. Crikey!

Henry Rollins

I look at my contemporaries, and we're all at different stages and levels, and all choosing different routes, different ways to do things.

Jamie Bell

I'm not a serious photographer like many of my contemporaries. That is to say, I am serious about not being serious.

Elliott Erwitt

A writer's ambition should be to trade a hundred contemporary readers for ten readers in ten years' time and for one reader in a hundred years' time.

Arthur Koestler

The work that lasts over time is the work which still speaks to us when all contemporary interest in that work is extinct.

Jeanette Winterson

I made records in the past that are as traditional as any other country records that have been made, but at the same time the records have a contemporary slant on it too.

Vince Gill

Marks of Identity is, among other things, the expression of the process of alienation in a contemporary intellectual with respect to his own country.

Juan Goytisolo

Contemporary science is based on the philosophy of materialism, which claims that all reality is material or physical.

Rupert Sheldrake

Then, when the Depression came, all of this changed completely. Since that time, the entire public is of a very different sort and there was not so much support for contemporary music in a direct way.

Elliott Carter

I come from an African Caribbean background. I've been influenced by a reggae church music style, contemporary gospel, and rock all fused together.

Laura Mvula

The music that I've made in the past has had strong contemporary country roots, but I think moving on in music, I will branch out from that a bit.

Jennette McCurdy

Since 1985, I have written about contemporary Jewish practice and the Jewish community.

Anita Diament

I am committed to the idea of information politics. That is how contemporary politics are played out.

Natalie Jeremijenko

The notion that a contemporary woman must look mannish in order to be taken seriously as a seeker of power is frankly dismaying. This is America, not Saudi Arabia.

Anna Wintour

There are contemporary artists that I hate with all my heart. These are provocateurs that are without feeling. Where is the real emotion?

Paolo Sorrentino

I listen to a mixture of old jazz, contemporary, pop, some world beat stuff and various odds and ends.

Walter Becker

Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

William Faulkner