KeenBrain
KeenBrain
KeenBrain

Quotes for topic: Contemporary


Share this page on

Showing 11-20 of 217 quotes in the topic Contemporary

I read very little contemporary anything... I don't think I read what other people read, but then why would I, considering what I do?

~Alan Furst

Topics: Anything Considering Contemporary Little Other People Read Then Think Very Why Would

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I spend my life writing fiction, so reading fiction isn't much of an escape. That's not always true, but I don't read much contemporary fiction.

~Alan Furst

Topics: Always Contemporary Escape Fiction Life Much My Life Read Reading Spend True Writing

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


If you look at that incredible burst of fantastic characters that emerged in the late 19th century/early 20th century, you can see so many of the fears and hopes of those times embedded in those characters. Even in throwaway bits of contemporary culture you can often find some penetrating insights into the real world around us.

~Alan Moore

Topics: Around Bits Burst Century Characters Contemporary Culture Embedded Emerged Even Fantastic Fears Find Hopes Incredible Insights Late Look Many Often Penetrating Real Real World See Some The Real World Those Times Us World You 20Th Century

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


With contemporary music, you automatically get connected. It connects you to the emotion of the characters.

~Aldis Hodge

Topics: Automatically Characters Connected Connects Contemporary Emotion Get Music You

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


For me, personally, the most interesting music comes from the popular sector - from film and pop music - since contemporary classical music got stuck and went into directions where it lost a lot of the public by over-intellectualizing.

~Aleksey Igudesman

Topics: Classical Classical Music Contemporary Directions Film Got Interesting Lost Lot Me Most Music Personally Pop Pop Music Popular Public Sector Since Stuck Where

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Westminster is a piece of this city's energy, something the contemporary world has forgotten.

~Alessandro Michele

Topics: City Contemporary Energy Forgotten Piece Something Westminster World

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I love taking prints, embroidery, appliques - precious things that seem to be from another time - and using them to create a contemporary, new story.

~Alessandro Michele

Topics: Another Another Time Contemporary Create Embroidery Love New Precious Precious Things Prints Seem Story Taking Them Things Time Using I Love

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


The future is not so interesting for me because the future doesn't exist. I am really focused on the contemporary.

~Alessandro Michele

Topics: Am Because Contemporary Exist Focused Future Interesting Me Really I Am

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I write contemporary fiction, and that is what my readers want to read.

~Alex Flinn

Topics: Contemporary Fiction Read Readers Want Write I Write

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I don't think my looks are modern. I always imagined I'd end up doing Chekhov, Ibsen and Shakespeare all my life and never play a contemporary character.

~Alex Kingston

Topics: All My Life Always Character Chekhov Contemporary Doing End Imagined Life Looks Modern My Life Never Play Shakespeare Think Up

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Popular Authors

Douglas Adams Saint Augustine Marcus Tullius Cicero Drake Lady Gaga Samuel Johnson Immanuel Kant Desmond Tutu

Change your beliefs...change your life.

Get a related quote or insight every day.

(it's 100% free)

Follow Us On

Today's Birthdays

1958 - Tim Burton

1800 - Thomas Babington Macaulay

1836 - Bret Harte

1841 - Emil Theodor Kocher

1864 - Virchand Gandhi

1889 - William Feather

1900 - Hans Adolf Krebs

1909 - Ruby Keeler

1912 - Erich Honecker

1913 - Walt Kelly

Birthdays on August 25th
All Birthdays

Popular Topics

Anger Beauty Chance Faith Freedom Learning Motivational Sympathy