Quotes About Contemporary

That which is timeless is also the most timely.

The anarch knows the rules. He has studied them as a historian and goes along with them as a contemporary. Wherever possible, he plays his own game within their framework; this makes the fewest waves.

but there is a broad similarity between the directions in the psalm and the contemporary movement known as "behavior modification"—which in a rough-and-ready way means that you can act yourself into a new way of being.

by contemporary Christians is fast, reductive, information-gathering and, above all, practical. We read for what we can get out of it, what we can put to use, what we think we can use—and right now.

The problem with contemporary philosophy is that it begins in helplessness, when it should end with it. We lack even the most rudimentary theory of "giving up.

so I just finished stuffing my bike with invisible air and went home; and thus ended my career as a hostage- briefly, inconclusively, with consummate inconsequentiality: a nonevent realizing its full potential, brave new currents in con­temporary invisibility-

Our education system must promote nationalism but should be modern and relevant to contemporary needs.

I think that what is important is that the music be honest and direct and that it is relevant to today. I think music needs to be of its time and speak to that time.

It's such a smart decision for comedy to not try to be relevant or contemporary.

Well, I think there are artists who are more or less contemporary with Hopper who are more relevant.

I've always liked the idea of taking old dramatic ideas and devices and making them feel relevant or contemporary or whatever.

Given the knee-jerk patriotism of recent war movies, it's discouraging to see 'Windtalkers' evade pertinent facts that could have recast the doubled-edged issues of racism and loyalty and made them relevant to contemporary times.

Artists always try to make something that is going to be relevant and up-to-the-minute.

My intention is to make sure that the new work being created for the ballet world is relevant.

All my films have raised questions on issues that are contemporary and relevant to our times.

I've realised that if it is to remain relevant, contemporary music needs to change.

I think flying planes into a building was a faith-based initiative. I think religion is a neurological disorder.

It's a great challenge to me, playing someone who is supposed to be absolutely normal and not remarkable and contemporary and yet at the same time does have a lot of fantastic power. As an actor it's a great challenge to bring reality to that.

With 'Bright Star' and with 'The Piano,' too, I felt a kind of sadness about it being in such a different era, because of my lack of experience with the era. And one of the ways I'd get over it is to remind myself that every film, even if it's contemporary, creates its own world.

I think one of the reasons I've done so much period work is because I feel so depressed by how society chooses to represent women in contemporary work.

Capote is one of those people who represents something larger than himself. I think that his ambition, his kind of success, and the downfall that followed are very contemporary.

People are hungry for what's happening right now in the world.

George's contribution to the great archive of contemporary music rests alongside the immortals. His is a legacy of unquestionable brilliance and one which will continue to shine and resonate for generations to come.

In little more than a generation, feminism has obliterated roles. If you wonder why so many men choose not to get married, the answer lies in large part in the contemporary devaluation of the husband and of the father - of men as men, in other words.