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But I don't think that poetry is a good, to use a contemporary word, venue, for current events.

Contemporary bands often will do tour-only releases pressed and sold only in Australia. Crikey!

The two contemporary writers whom I consider as role models are Janet Malcolm and Michael Lewis.

I collect primarily ceramics but also black-and-white photography and some bits of contemporary.

You never know when contemporary art is going to insinuate itself into a normally art-free zone.

Contemporary anti-Semites claim they have nothing against Jews - they just hate the Jewish state.

To have a sense of contemporary ownership of Shakespeare is the most important thing to his work.

With a lot of contemporary musicals, the songs are like a calling card: the action stops for them.

We may play in a contemporary rock vein, use standard bebop themes, and many other things besides.

I can inhabit any character in a way that is difficult to do successfully in a contemporary novel.

Because of the structure of the contemporary American party system, every president is polarizing.

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

I'm not modern or ancient: I'm just contemporary. I'm sure every guru of his time was contemporary.

If I had to describe my sense of humor, I would say it's contemporary wit, you know what I'm saying?

The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.

A creator is so completely contemporary that he has the appearance of being ahead of his generation.

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

I gravitate toward contemporary art. I love great paintings, sculpture, photography, some video art.

Few contemporary artists mined the space between the ordinary and the strange better than Orozco did.

I am committed to the idea of information politics. That is how contemporary politics are played out.

I love it when people take contemporary songs and find a narrative or a theatrical way of telling it.

I listen to a mixture of old jazz, contemporary, pop, some world beat stuff and various odds and ends.

I never paid attention to what was contemporary or what was commercial, it didn't mean anything to me.

My work is a contemporary call to arms. It is time to get our mojo back. To rediscover our true north.

Unfortunately, the Church's position on most contemporary issues makes it hard to take them seriously.

Philip Larkin has a tough honesty and sense of humor that I find irresistible, as a contemporary poet.

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

If I'm wearing a vintage '50s-style dress, I'll wear some funky, wild shoes by a contemporary designer.

Basically, I was a very serious film fan. I watched a lot of cinema and contemporary and European film.

Poles must understand history but we must also overcome it if it is obstructing our contemporary goals.

Profit and bottom line, the contemporary mantra, eliminates the very source of architectural expression.

I've come to realize that the contemporary creative culture is not generating the best possible outcome.

I don't worry whether the period is contemporary or three hundred years ago. Human beings are all alike.

Some comic artists I've known are better than most contemporary artists with work hanging in Tate Modern.

The contemporary crime novel is, at its best, a novel of character. That's where the suspense comes from.

Mother's taste was eclectic and ranged from the ancient world to the contemporary from Europe to the U.S.

I've never been at odds with the world of contemporary artists. If there is any animosity, it's one-sided.

Everyone relates differently to contemporary stuff. They rely on you to do the research for a period film.

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

I don't like all of the contemporary country. I like some of it, but I'm mostly into the traditional style.

I'd like to do a contemporary London thing, working with like-minded people, possibly through improvisation.

Honestly, I haven't the time to read contemporary writers. I know this is awful, but in the main it is true.

You cannot even begin to understand contemporary African politics if you have not read this fascinating book

My computer background is a black and white picture I took of the Niteroi Contemporary Art Museum in Brazil.

Contemporary audiences are interested in watching characters navigate ethical challenges and moral dilemmas.

We live in a world which is changing very fast. What seems contemporary now will be historical in two years.

It's hard to go back to shooting contemporary apartment interiors after you shoot something like 'Mudbound.'

As contemporary history reminds us we are human to the extent that we are able to chose between alternatives.

The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap.

Contemporary fiction is the hardest for me because I am not really in the popular culture - I don't watch TV.

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