“Commercials are so contemporary and up to date that when you're involved in that visual world, you can't really go backwards.”
Damien Hirst
“I listen to a mixture of old jazz, contemporary, pop, some world beat stuff and various odds and ends.”
Walter Becker
“At the moment of the contemporary metaphysician's loftiest flight, when he is most gratefully warmed by the feeling that he is far above all the ordinary airlanes and has an absolutely novel concept by the tail, he is suddenly pulled up by the discov”
Henry Louis Mencken
“I never have that 'we were robbed' feeling when looking around now at where some of our contemporaries are.”
Robert Forster
“Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.”
William Faulkner
“What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it.”
Sir Walter Scott
“The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap.”
Spiro T. Agnew
