Contemporary famous quotes

Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.
-- Abbie Hoffman

#Law #Justice #Contemporary

I read very little contemporary anything.
-- Alan Furst

#Littles #Contemporary

Contemporary art is an epoch of false money allied with false culture.
-- Alexander Stoddart

#Art #Culture #Contemporary

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

#Art #Currents #Contemporary

My work has been marginalized as far as the jazz-business complex is concerned, or the contemporary-music complex.
-- Anthony Braxton

#Jazz #Concerned #Contemporary

All history is contemporary history.
-- Benedetto Croce

#Contemporary

You cannot even begin to understand contemporary African politics if you have not read this fascinating book
-- Bob Geldof

#Book #Contemporary

You know, I listen to contemporary music all the time
-- Brian De Palma

#Contemporary #Contemporary Music

Poles must understand history but we must also overcome it if it is obstructing our contemporary goals.
-- Donald Tusk

#Goal #Overcoming #Contemporary

It is very difficult to build contemporary architecture in Italy
-- Fabio Novembre

#Architecture #Difficult #Contemporary

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

#Song #Sock #Contemporary

Contemporary thinkers would say that man is continuously transcending himself.
-- Gabriel Marcel

#Men #Thinker #Contemporary

Those who are truly contemporary are those who neither perfectly coincide with their time nor adapt to its demands...Contemporariness, then, is that relationship with time that adheres to it through a disconnection.
-- Giorgio Agamben

#Demand #Contemporary #Disconnection

I don't think contemporary writers spend a lot of time reading each other. Particularly writers of the same nationality.
-- Gore Vidal

#Reading #Thinking #Contemporary

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

#Thinking #Musical #Contemporary

Without doubt, Thomas Edison is my greatest contemporary.
-- Henry Ford

#Doubt #Contemporary

My work seen in its totality is a statement about the integration of the contemporary artist into an industrial society.
-- Herbert Bayer

#Artist #Integration #Contemporary

Contemporary industrial society is now characterised more than ever by the need for stupefying work where it is no longer a real necessity.
-- Herbert Marcuse

#Real #Needs #Contemporary

Going back to the noir fiction of the 30s, 40s and 50s. It's very contemporary.
-- Jeff Goldblum

#Fiction #Noir #Contemporary

I have no qualm about the quality of the contemporary repertory,
-- John Bonham

#Quality #Qualms #Contemporary

Contemporary Britain seems an endlessly fascinating place to me - but if I knew a little bit more about other places, and other times, maybe it wouldn't.
-- Jonathan Coe

#Littles #Britain #Contemporary

Knowledge Qf history frees us to be contemporary.
-- Lynn Townsend White, Jr.

#History #Contemporary

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

#Admire #Contemporary

I love black-and-white movies that are about contemporary subjects.
-- Noah Baumbach

#Black And White #Contemporary #Subjects

Obviously I always wanted to do a contemporary piece.
-- Orlando Bloom

#Pieces #Wanted #Contemporary

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

#Comedy #Interest #Contemporary

I wanted to disconnect from contemporary architecture
-- Rem Koolhaas

#Architecture #Wanted #Contemporary

In fact, of course, I hold that propositions that contemporary philosophers would properly count as 'empirical' can be necessary and be known to be such.
-- Saul Kripke

#Facts #Philosopher #Contemporary

If contemporary literary fiction doesn't read a bit like science fiction then it's probably not all that contemporary, is it
-- Warren Ellis

#Fiction #Science Fiction #Contemporary

The most underrated of all contemporary American writers of fiction.
-- William March

#Fiction #Contemporary #Underrated

No aspect of our contemporary lives has been untouched by women's work.
-- Dyllan McGee

#Aspect #Contemporary #Has Beens

It's really important that we not replicate what came before us, but we do something of our own, that's reflective of our own time, of contemporary society.
-- Peter Clewes

#Important #Contemporary Society #Contemporary

Our contemporary life is based on information that can change at any time.
-- DJ Spooky

#Information #Life Is #Contemporary

In contemporary society [the typical lady] is an archaism, and can't hardly understand herself unless she knows her own history.
-- Emily James Smith Putnam

#Typical #Contemporary Society #Contemporary

So much of contemporary liberalism seems to be never having grown up.
-- Jay Nordlinger

#Liberalism #Contemporary #Seems

I want to be a contemporary artist and at the same time a romantic!
-- Luis Gonzalez

#Artist #Want #Contemporary