#contemporaries

Every religious pioneer, including Jesus Christ, was persecuted by his contemporaries. But once people understand me, their turn can be dramatic like Saint Paul's. ↗

— Sun Myung Moon

#contemporaries #dramatic #every #his #including

Among the American contemporaries I read with most enjoyment are several North Carolinians. I think the best poetry being written these days is being written by Southerners. ↗

— Robert Morgan

#among #being #best #contemporaries #days

A particularly fine head on a man usually means that he is stupid; particularly deep philosophers are usually shallow thinkers; in literature, talents not much above the average are usually regarded by their contemporaries as geniuses. ↗

— Robert Musil

#average #contemporaries #deep #fine #geniuses

I saw how many people were poor and how many kids my age went to school hungry in the morning, which I don't think most of my contemporaries in racially segregated schools in the South thought very much about at the time. ↗

— Charles Kuralt

#age #contemporaries #how #hungry #i

I never had ambitions to see how rich I could get. I got a lot of contemporaries that that's their ambition, and I don't know very many of them that are happy. ↗

— Caroll Shelby

#contemporaries #could #get #got #had

I never have that 'we were robbed' feeling when looking around now at where some of our contemporaries are. ↗

— Robert Forster

#contemporaries #feeling #i #looking #never

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

— Krzysztof Kieslowski

#contemporaries #lost #much #our #rationality

A film like Genevieve to my contemporaries is not a film made years ago, but last week or last year. They see me as I was then, not as I am now. ↗

— Kenneth More

#am #contemporaries #film #genevieve #i

I don't have stylistic loyalty. That's why people perceive me changing all the time. But there is a real continuity in my subject matter. As an artist of artifice, I do believe I have more integrity than any one of my contemporaries. ↗

— David Bowie

#artifice #artist #believe #changing #contemporaries

I'd love to do a modern-day musical that's full of original music. To get your contemporaries to sing and dance without looking foolish and for it to be transformational and magical and all those things a musical is supposed to be. ↗

— Danny Boyle

#dance #foolish #full #get #i