Quotes About Contemporary

The most important playwright's gift is to hit your time and speak to your time.

In general, my paintings are multifocal. You can't call it unfocused space, but not being fixed to a single focus is very much of our time.

Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time.

That a literature in our time is living is shown in that way that it debates problems.

No time like the present

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.

My assignment is what every writer's assignment is: tell the truth of his own time.

I listen to music that is of our time and I just get angry.

If you look at the Olympic graphics for Mexico or Los Angeles, those programs don't look contemporary by today's eyes but they really look like they are of their place and time.

The blues are like the fugue in 18th century. It's probably the music that belongs most to our time.

I hate artists who are not of their time.

Minimalism now is a reaction to what came before. It's absolutely of its time. Music moved into the set theory thing, and moved out of it.

People ask me, when was my best time? I always say, 'Today.'

Contemporary criticism only represents the amount of ignorance genius has to contend with. . . . Time will reverse the judgement of the vulgar.

What I am interested in is the present time

Contemporary Big Government is like a widget factory that no longer makes widgets but holds sensitivity training sessions all day long.

We must talk, think, and live up to the spirit of the times, and write up to it too, if that cacoethes be upon us, or else we are nought.

He's a creature of today—not haunted by the past or fearful of the future!

His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge. Of contemporary literature, philosophy and politics he appeared to know next to nothing... My surprise reached a climax, however, when I found incidentally that he was ignorant of the Copernican Theory and of the composition of the Solar System.

Many wish to believe that there was a Trojan War, so powerful is the hold of Homer on our imaginations. As a result, people do not always pause sufficiently to ask what sort of work the Iliad is, nor what might count as good archaeological evidence for a Trojan War. The Iliad, composed five hundred years after the events it purports to describe, is an imaginative creation of a world mostly very different from the contemporary world of the poet. It cannot be treated as a work of history.

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

he believed that the earth is flat, that the English are the Lost Ten Tribes of Israel, and that the United States is a democracy.

Becky! Love! Mum has pushed her way through her dancing guests to reach me. What's wrong? Has labor started? Honestly. My family has no idea about contemporary urban street dance trends.

All books are divisible into two classes: the books of the hour, and the books of all time.