Topical Quotes

[Hemingway] always used to bawl me out for including so much topical stuff. He always claimed that was a great mistake, that in fifty years nobody would understand. He may have been right; it's getting to be true. (John Dos Passos)
I write all my own songs and they are just simple melodies with a lot of lyrics. They usually have to do with current events and what is going on in the news. You can call them topical songs, songs about the news, and then developing into more philosophical songs later. View quote
Phil Ochs
Of course, sometimes when you write personally, you are also writing about society, obliquely reflecting topical issues, but not in a way that people would expect you to or in the way that someone trying to make a point would. View quote
Suzanne Vega
I'm a student of the movies. I'm a student of all media. This is what I do, and I like to immerse myself in what's current and what's topical. And I find that I'm drawn to those things. View quote
Ian Ziering
It is in the nature of the New Yorker to be as topical as possible, on a level that is often small in scale and playful in intention. View quote
Brendan Gill
I feel that I belong to the 19th century. Some composers' music is very topical. It almost says, 'This is about what I read in newspapers yesterday.' Not mine. View quote
Gordon Getty
Most important to any fake story is a plausible, realistic edge with a satirical twist that is topical. View quote
Joey Skaggs
I'm a creature of adaptation. I take advantage of the second and the moment. My comedy breathes; it's not really that predictable. I do have a linear style, but other than that, there's a lot of abstract. I just go off on what I'm thinking. I'm not that topical. I like to talk about me and my experiences. View quote
Tommy Davidson
Representative democracy betrays the electorate when laws have no roots in the people but in oligarchies. Studies on the concept and modalities of direct democracy are therefore becoming more topical. View quote
Alfred de Zayas
Great artists are always far-seeing. They easily avoid the big stumbling blocks of fact. They rely on their own simplicity and vision. It is fact-fetichism that has given us those scores and scores of American books on America, the works of sociologists, anthropologists, topical "problem" hunters, working-parties and statisticians, which in the end leave us empty. Henry James succeeds because he rejects information. He was himself the only information he required. View quote
V. S. Pritchett
The question of giving workers a sense of belonging, an increased share in the affairs of the industry, has been a topical issue the world over. We gave it official recognition when a specific recommendation in this connection was made in the Second Five-Year Plan. (Gulzarilal Nanda)
Honestly, it's the greatest show on television. It's live. It's topical. It makes you laugh. It's just a great vibe. View quote
Jimmy Fallon
In a more intellectually rigorous age, I wouldn't be talked about as a satirist at all. I would just be a topical comedian. View quote
Rory Bremner
No critic, not even a topical analyst, can escape seeing the musical past from a present perspective. But...the common-language approach of the topical-analyst critics permits a separation between present sensibility and the general sensibilities of the late eighteenth century, allowing for an ever-evolving dialogue between the vanished past and the evanescent present. View quote
Harold Powers
An article can be timely, topical, engaged in the issues and personalities of the moment; it is likely to be stale within the month. In five years, it may have acquired the quaint aura of a rotary phone. An article is usually Siamese-twinned to its date of birth. View quote
Cynthia Ozick
Every writer scrounges for inspiration in different places, and there's no shame in raiding the headlines. It's necessary, in fact, when attempting contemporary satire. Sharp-edged humor relies on topical reference points. View quote
Carl Hiaasen
I shoot for 'Extra' three times a week, and that's great for Las Vegas, too. In addition to interviewing stars who are here for shows, parties and premieres, I'll also get peoples' reactions to different news items and topical gossip. View quote
Holly Madison
One of the hardest things I've had to deal with in my career is keeping my material topical even though I only release albums every three or four years. View quote
Al Yankovic
What's most galvanizing for me is the opportunity to be topical and relevant and entertaining. That's the holy grail. View quote
Kathryn Bigelow
Anytime you open your mouth there's going to be someone who's put off. I try to deal with that by keeping the topical portions of my show brief. I realize that some people wish my comments were briefer. View quote
John Hall
When I think of folk music, I think of topical songs. And I don't write topical songs. (Ray LaMontagne)
Comedians are always hitting the topical notes that are on everybody's minds. View quote
Yakov Smirnoff
The hardest song to write is a protest song, a topical song with meaning. View quote
Joan Baez
The comics that are just conversing with you up there and drawing on their own life, yeah, I guess so. I guess some do political humor, some do topical humor, but the ones that I like, the ones that are appealing to me, were guys who were just talking to you about their life. View quote
Ray Romano
Vico claims that the aim of philosophy is the problem of "finding," and he identifies the theory of "finding" with "topical philosophy.” ... View quote
Ernesto Grassi