#tempo

I like things that are kind of eclectic, when one thing doesn't go with another. That's why I love Rome. The town itself is that way. It's where Fascist architecture meets classic Renaissance, where the ancient bangs up against the contemporary. It has a touch of everything. That's my style, and that's what my work is about. ↗

— Giambattista Valli

#against #ancient #another #architecture #bangs

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

— Alex Cox

#colorless #contemporaries #harder #his #law

Unquestionably, our contemporary world of music is far richer, in a sense, than earlier periods, due to the historical and geographical extensions of culture to which I have referred. ↗

— George Crumb

#contemporary world #culture #due #earlier #extensions

I'm sure the movie industry is going up but I would love to see more Chinese films about contemporary Chinese about the problems of life on the street. ↗

— Paz Vega

#chinese #contemporary #films #going #i

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

— Rose Tremain

#character #contemporary #difficult #i #i can

Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing. ↗

— Denis Waitley

#being #dead #dead end #defeat #delay

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

— Simone Weil

#contemporary #form #founded #greatness #lies

If I take a less defensive tone, I'd admit that I couldn't write today a very jazzy, contemporary look at America as I did in 1979 in States of Desire. ↗

— Edmund White

#america #contemporary #defensive #desire #did

Why was I born with such contemporaries? ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#contemporaries #i #such #why

The engine of ancient society was religion but the engine of contemporary society, as I see it, is advertising. ↗

— Kit Williams

#ancient #contemporary #contemporary society #engine #i