Quotes of Simultaneous - somelinesforyou

“ Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. ”

- William Faulkner

“ In believing too much in rationality, our contemporaries have lost something. ”

- Krzysztof Kieslowski

“ Never let oneself be guided by the opinion of one's contemporaries. Continue steadfastly on one's way. ”

- Gustav Mahler

“ I occasionally play works by contemporary composers and for two reasons. First to discourage the composer from writing any more and secondly to remind myself how much I appreciate Beethoven. ”

- Jascha Heifetz

“ Obviously I always wanted to do a contemporary piece. ”

- Orlando Bloom

“ I don't know. I don't care. And it doesn't make any difference. ”

- Jack Kerouac

“ These are films that are holding up a mirror to contemporary culture. ”

- Rachel Weisz

“ One of my contemporaries, a colorless chap who worked much harder at his law studies, is now Prime Minister. ”

- Alex Cox

“ One way or another, we all have to find what best fosters the flowering of our humanity in this contemporary life, and dedicate ourselves to that. ”

- Joseph Campbell

“ We all know pain doesn't exist without some coexisting depression. ”

- Jerry Hall

“ I do need space aside from projects that fit in with what I am known for... to work on more contemporary novels. ”

- Tanith Lee

“ Wealth is power, and power is the only thing about which contemporary culture cares. ”

- Dean Koontz

“ However deep our devotion may be to parents or to children, it is our contemporaries alone with whom understanding is instinctive and entire. ”

- Vera Brittain

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

- Jorge Luis Borges

“ Contemporary criticism only represents the amount of ignorance genius has to contend with. ”

- Percy Bysshe Shelley

“ I was listening to the first record the other day, and it sounds remarkably contemporary. ”

- Chris Bailey

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

- Simone Weil

“ Why was I born with such contemporaries? ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ The Ireland I now inhabit is one that these Irish contemporaries have helped to imagine. ”

- Seamus Heaney

“ To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event. ”

- Henri Cartier Bresson
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