#contemporaries

I've seen many of my contemporaries become superstars, and the way fame and fortune starts to really affect the way they treat other people, and I think it's ugly. ↗

— Siobhan Fahey

#become #contemporaries #fame #fortune #i

A man lives not only his personal life, as an individual, but also, consciously or unconsciously, the life of his epoch and his contemporaries. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#consciously #contemporaries #epoch #his #individual

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

I don't look at the work of my contemporaries very much; I tend to look at pictures by dead artists. It's much easier to get near their paintings. ↗

— Howard Hodgkin

#contemporaries #dead #easier #get #i

The pyramid once passed there was still a short way to go before we confronted the Sphinx, in the middle of what our contemporaries have left him of his desert. ↗

— Pierre Loti

#confronted #contemporaries #desert #go #him

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

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 completed the first three years of primary school in one year and was admitted to the local school the age of six directly into the fourth year, some two years younger than all my contemporaries. ↗

— Sydney Brenner

#age #completed #contemporaries #directly #first

Most of my contemporaries at school entered the World of Business, the logical destiny of bores. ↗

— Barry Humphries

#business #contemporaries #destiny #entered #logical

But truth is most likely to be exhibited by the general sense of contemporaries, when the feelings of the heart can be expressed without suffering itself to be disguised by the prejudices of man. ↗

— Mercy Otis Warren

#disguised #exhibited #expressed #feelings #general