Modern Quotes
The important thing is not to do any agriculture whatsoever, and particularly to make the modern agricultural sciences a forbidden area - they're worse than witchcraft, really.
The Beatles are not merely awful. I would consider it sacrilegious to say anything less than that they are godawful.
I had changed from being a mathematician to a practicing scientist. I was increasingly embarassed that I could no longer follow some of the more modern branches of pure mathematics.
A Modern Mom to me is not always someone that juggles a career and family. A Modern Mom is a woman who takes care of herself on the inside and the outside.
Those who admire modern civilization usually identify it with the steam engine and the electric telegraph.
Rich men without convictions are more dangerous in modern society than poor women without chastity.
The science of the modern school ... is in effect ... the acquisition of imperfectly analyzed misstatements about entrails, elements, and electricity.
Preacher is a book that somehow allows me time by its settling on it's characters, that sort of modern gothic western feel. You're not likely to see the boat veering too far from that.
In the modern operas that 'Miss Saigon' and 'Les Miz' are, nobody breaks out into song from conventional book dialogue. Everything is sung from beginning to end, including the recitative.
Speed, the fundamental condition of the activities of our day is the power of photography, indeed the modern art of today, the art of the split second.
I think the messiness and embodied nature of modern life just produces an enhanced signal for our attention.
The influence of modern physics goes beyond technology. It extends to the realm of thought and culture where it has led to a deep revision in man's conception of the universe and his relation to it
It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage; which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.
Colonialism has a bad reputation in the modern context, but Colonial Africa was a far better place for both black and white before the colonists gave up.
The 2004 Election marks the first time in modern political history that Republican voter turnout matched Democratic turnout in a presidential election year.
The fact remains that, if the supply of energy failed, modern civilization would come to an end as abruptly as does the music of an organ deprived of wind.
As ever with modern Britain, we are let down by a vast, over-manned, over-funded, hidebound, obstructive, box-ticking and incompetent bureaucracy.
The Olympic stadium may have been built only in the early 1970s but it was clear for a long time it had no future. For many reasons it is not good enough for modern football and today's fans.
Certainly in the modern age where everything is glossed over, when somebody speaks their mind, the majority of the public go, I'd love to have said that.
I think the reason you see so many people dropping out of politics is because there's an anti-poetic strain in modern political discourse.
Be it whim or emergency, the modern laboratory is equally at the service of romance, equally ready to gratify mankind with a torpedo or a toy.
Professional footballers - those virile young stags of our modern culture - are near perpetual fountains of sputum.
New York: Prison towers and modern posters for soap and whiskey. Pittsburgh: Abandon it.
Boston: Clear out eight hundred thousand people and preserve it as a museum piece. New York: Prison towers and modern posters for soap and whiskey. Pittsburgh: Abandon it.
In ancient days, men looked at stars and saw their heroes in the constellations. In modern times, we do much the same, but our heroes are epic men of flesh and blood.
That said, there are certainly still cooks out there who make fantastic historical cornbreads, though the old recipes have often been changed to include modern techniques and ingredients.
The two World Wars came in part, like much modern literature and art, because men, whose nature is to tire of everything in turn... tired of common sense and civilization.
We all listened to a lot of recorded music, especially American jazz, modern jazz, and that's where our studies were and our inspiration came from.
The modern dance is no dance in the first place, and when you've finally learned it, it's not modern any more.
When I was 14 years old, I was a huge fan of the Velvets, the Stooges and the Modern Lovers. They are my three favourite bands. I never get sick of 'em.
Modern life ... is often a mechanical oppression and liquor is the only mechanical relief.
America was born modern; it did not have to achieve modernity, nor did it have modernity thrust upon it.
It may sound ambitious, but I really hope that modern design will spread all around the globe.
Every family is different. I am mom and I am dad and I'm going to do my best. You should be proud, walk through life saying I have the coolest family. I am part of a modern family.
Pen in Barack Obama hands is far more dangerous than any other president, at least in modern history, if not ever.
I'm really interested in modern history, but to fulfill a History degree at Brown you have to do modern and pre-modern.
Where are the real sources of human dignity, freedom and modern democracy, if not in the concept of infinity to which all men are equal?
Language is one of the greatest gifts man has devised for himself. It ranks, alongside the discovery of fire and the wheel, as a major influence in making modern man what he is today.
Let's face it. Leftism is the political form of evil. And the left largely controls the modern West. Where, then, does that leave us all?
Our modern industrial economy takes a mountain covered with trees, lakes, running streams and transforms it into a mountain of junk, garbage, slime pits, and debris.
To the Ancients, Friendship seemed the happiest and most fully human of all loves... The modern world in comparison, ignores it.
A century and a half after its birth, the modern business corporation, an artificial person made in the image of a human psychopath, now is seeking to remake real people in its image.
The modern world tends to be skeptical about everything that makes demands on man's higher faculties. But it is not at all skeptical about skepticism, which demands hardly anything.
In modern Greek history, there is a close relationship between national humiliation and political radicalization.