Modern Quotes

The modern world is a crowd of very rapid racing cars all brought to a standstill and stuck in a block of traffic.

I'm not an anti-online person. I get what the modern world's about and I understand that that's the nature of music dissemination.

I have a hard time picturing several aspects of the modern world without Luther.

The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is.

The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are.

The Modern Self must confront the shadow of hubris.

I think the idea of mixing luxury and mass-market fashion is very modern, very now - no one wears head-to-toe designer anymore.

In modern warfare there are no victors; there are only survivors.

It is not a zero sum game. The simple idea of the gains from trade lies at the heart of the modern and the ancient economy, not the power of capital. There is nothing else to it.

Beautiful credit! The foundation of modern society.

perhaps all this modern ferment of what's known as 'social conscience' or 'civic responsibility' isn't a result of the sense of duty, but of the old, old craving for beauty.

I don't care if my lettuce has DDT on it, just as long as it's crisp.

AB de Villers is the most complete player of the Modern Era.

Black-and-whit e always looks modern, whatever that word means.

I teach at USC, and it's obvious to anyone who teaches college students that they don't cover much modern history and certainly not the modern presidency.

A modern liberal is someone who doesn't care what you do, as long as it's compulsory.

I am forced to the conclusion that modern medicine does not know it all.

I am very interested in human-interest stories emerging from modern India. I get my inspiration and daily dose by reading the Hindustan Times.

That's part of the requirement for me to be an artist is that you're trying to share your personal existence with others and trying to illuminate modern life, trying to understand life.

Modern diplomats approach every problem with an open mouth.

Modern society will find no solution to the ecological problem unless it takes a serious look at its lifestyle.

I am confident that we will one day end the scourge of modern slavery, because I believe in those committed to this issue.

Because I write fiction that is based in the real world, it's going to lead people into some of the modern dilemmas and concerns and even catastrophes that they will think about in a new way.

I kind of lost interest in the classical dance. I was very much interested in the modern choreography.

I don’t mean to make a big deal out of sobriety, by the way. Of all the modes of human consciousness available to the modern consumer I consider it to be the most overrated.

Having a debate with a modern Christian is like punching a sponge.

The first organization structure in the modern West was laid down in the canon law of the Catholic Church eight hundred years ago.

The blues echoes right through into soul, R&B and hip hop. It's part of the make-up of modern music. You can't turn your back on the blues.

It is because of his brain that he [modern man] has risen above the animals. Guess which animals he has risen above.

One could almost phrase the motto of our modern civilization thus: Science is my shepherd; I shall not want.

I never call myself modern or traditional, in our out, new or used, because I prefer not to be hemmed in by rigid definitions.

The academic area of new music or modern music festivals is not something which attracts me at all.

A handwritten, personal letter has become a genuine modern-day luxury, like a child's pony ride.

Nowadays games immediately appear on the Internet and thus the life of novelties is measured in hours. Modern professionals do not have the right to be forgetful - it is 'life threatening'.

A post-9/11, modern take being Batman training people to be the heroes they know they can be on their own.

I cannot look at modern buildings without thinking of historical ones.

Staying relevant is key. When you're telling your story, you better have a modern story to tell. If I was still saying the same story I was saying 10 years ago, it would not be that interesting.

Evolution is the cornerstone of modern biology. Intelligent design is not a scientific concept.

I would go there quite frequently. I met and became close with John Szarkowski of the Museum of Modern Art. He was incredibly supportive about me working in color.

Modern American cinema seems to me superficial. The intention is to understand a certain reality, and the result is nothing but a photographing of that reality.

A modern gentleman [rich person] is necessarily the enemy of his country. Even in war he does not fight to defend it, but to prevent his power of preying on it from passing to a foreigner.

The discoveries of modern science do not disagree with the oldest traditions which claim an incredible antiquity for our race.

When you are too old to play golf, you had better die.

Beta and modern portfolio theory and the like - none of it makes any sense to me.

The coolest thing about doing live shows is I'm able to give the songs a new life. So even thought they're old, I'm able to do them in a way that's modern.

The machines, the modern mode of production, slowly undermined domestic production and not just for thousands but for millions of women the question arose: Where do we now find our livelihood?

It is a commonplace of modern technology that problems have solutions before there is knowledge of how they are to be solved.

The art of reading is to skip judiciously. Whole libraries may be skipped in these days, when we have the results of them in our modern culture without going over the ground again.

You got to do what's happening today in the world. You got to keep up with time. Keep up to date, keep modern - keep up on your toes!

As an artist and a songwriter myself, I like to feel connected to modern culture and watch how sounds change.