(78 quotes found)
“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
“It is a tribute to the peculiar horror of contemporary life that it makes the worst features of earlier times -- the stupefaction of the masses, the obsessed and driven lives of the bourgeoisie -- seem attractive by comparison.”
Christopher Lasch
“Most contemporary novelists, especially the American and the French, are too subjective, mesmerized by private demons; they're enraptured by their navels and confined by a view that ends with their own toes.”
Truman Capote
“F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, and William Faulkner have fewer published novels combined than any number of contemporary novelists-Roberts, King, Koontz, Steel, etc.”
Nicholas Sparks
“Experience has taught me that the shallowest of communist platitudes contains more of a hierarchy of meaning than contemporary bourgeois profundity.”
Walter Benjamin
“a real alternative, a set of meanings and values that can stand at a critical and redemptive distance from contemporary culture.”
Cardinal Ratzinger
“I would say that we're still contemporary but we use elements of blended, which has some elements of traditional music.”
Craig Castleberry
“McG has teamed with up-and-coming scribe John Glenn to develop a contemporary”
Dirty Harry
