Modern Quotes

Most of modern rock and roll is a product of guilt.

I began to see new buildings, too, which were connected by futuristic walkways lit from beneath. Long, cool perspectives of modern architecture, rising phosphorescent and eerie from the rubble.

If you're playing a cop in a modern film, you don't have to walk with your spine straight up and bow before a fight. There's a lot of free form of expressing yourself as an actor.

A period film, where you, for example, where you have a traditional wardrobes, you are bound to act a certain way. But in a modern film, a lot of body gesture.

anybody who has anything abusive to say of women, whether ancient or modern, can command a vast public in the popular press and a ready agreement from the average publisher.

A valuable qualification of a modern politician seems to be a capacity for concealing or explaining away the truth.

I love the inappropriateness of age-old wisdom in modern slang. These things are all so wonderful to me.

I enjoy Modern Family very much. Good TV program. I don't know why. I just find that so many of the jokes land. So many of the actors are so great. Phil Dunphy is one of my favorite characters ever.

The modern world is devoted to vanishing species, vanishing weather and vanishing capacity for wonder.

Walkman was the precursor to the cell phone, in terms of your strategy for getting through the urban landscape and the modern experience. Insulate yourself from it with your own soundscape.

Fatherlessness is a rot that is eating away at the modern soul.

I grew up on Nickelodeon.On All That and Are You Afraid of the Dark, and Salute Your Shorts and Rocco's Modern Life and all that. That was my generation.

I love Tate Modern; there's such great style and shopping here. I love the galleries and the pubs out on the street, just having your pint as the sun is setting.

It isn't silence you can cut with a knife any more, it's interchange of ideas. Intelligent discussion of practically everything is what is breaking up modern marriage.

The most striking thing about modern industry is that it requires so much and accomplishes so little.

Modern industry seems to be inefficient to a degree that surpasses one's enduring powers of imagination. Its inefficiency therefore remains unnoticed.

We should sell them to our worst enemies, the Russians and the Cubans.

Television is such a staple of modern society that for most voters, it's not real unless it's on the tube.

Modern man is a hard-working human.

They were the first Westerners. The spirit of the West, the modern spirit, is a Greek discovery; and the place of the Greeks is in the modern world.

Industrialism, whether of the capitalist or socialist coloration, is the basic tyrant of the modern age.

In the modern world, all literary art is necessarily political -- especially that which pretends not to be.

It was not long before English Law took the one step needed to produce the modern scheme of legal remedies. And when it did, it used the Writ of Trespass as the starting point.

The subject [of Los Angeles] became a general metaphor for anxiety and the speed of modern life.

Public feeling now is apt to side with the persecuted, and our modern martyr is full as likely to be smothered with roses as with coals.

You couldn't even write me a paper about the roles you would dream of playing in modern musical theatre.

No blare of trumpets announces a modern crisis. In these matter-of-fact times, a telephone call will do.

The idea of recontextualizing images from different eras to express larger ideas about modern times was very exciting to me. That archival aesthetic is the foundation of my filmmaking style.

Insolent youth rides, now, in the whirlwind. For those modern iconoclasts who are without culture possess, apparently, all the courage.

No one in the modern world is more lonely than the writer with a literary conscience.

Libya as a country is a relatively new concept. The period of Libya as a modern nation really starts after World War II.

I don't have any of the modern stuff. I don't have e-mail. I don't have a computer!

Once I'd heard 'Modern Times' by Bob Dylan, it really changed the way I wanted to make records.

A third ideal that has made its way in the modern world is reliance on reason, especially reason disciplined and enriched by modern science. An eternal basis of human intercommunication is reason.

The miracle of modern science. The LEP pours millions into your department, Foaly, and all you can do is send Mud Boys to the toilet.

Boo-hoo. Help me, I'm a girl. What kind of modern woman are you? A smart one.

Sean Taylor is a wonderfully talented modern troubadour whose sincere, thoughtful songs pull you in. I've had the pleasure of sharing the stage with him. He swings. Check him out!

I pretty much isolated myself away from drums. I stopped looking at Modern Drummer, I stopped looking at websites.

In a modern society people can live without hope only when kept dazed and out of breath by incessant hustling.

The great mountains of the world are a great remedy if men but did know it against our modern discontent and ambitions. In the hills is wisdom's fount. They are deep in time.

I would consider a socialism a mixture of the minimum of centralization necessary for a modern industrial state, and a maximum of decentralization.

Why take pride in cooking, when they don't take pride in eating?

Through photography, both artist and scientist can find a common denominator in their search for the synthesis of modern vision in time, space and structure.

I am not good at dealing with the modern media. I have not felt I have been as effective as I should be.

When it is about technology, there is this tendency to just reject all criticism as being anti-technological and anti-modern. I think this is very unhealthy.

She [Evelina] is not, indeed, like most modern young ladies; to be known in half an hour; her modest worth, and fearful excellence, require both time and encouragement to show themselves.

This modern mania for interfering in other's lives, usually under the guise of health and safety concerns, is highly irritating and counterproductive. Down with the nanny state.

modern science was largely conceived of as an answer to the servant problem and ... it is generally practiced by those who lack a flair for conversation.

Every person born in the USA is endowed with life, liberty, and a substantial share of the national debt.

So here I stand before you preaching organic architecture: declaring organic architecture to be the modern ideal.