Modern Quotes

The cocktail party has a simple function in modern society. Its basic purpose is to pay off social debts.

I used to envy kids who had an old-fashioned Grandpa. Not any more. I've got a new ambition. Now I just want to become a modern-type Grandpa myself-and really start living.

The church lives on the fact that modern research about Jesus is not known amongst the public.

The struggle to make an absolute statement in an individually conceived vocabulary accounts for the profound tensions inherent in the best modern work.

You basically have to play everything (in New Orleans), because you're getting calls to play gigs of all different styles, from classical to R&B to funk; modern jazz to traditional jazz.

The modern day anarchists known as the Tea Party, they believe in no government.

I can't stand modern movies. The images are too weird and eccentric for me.

In earlier religions the spirit of the time was expressed through the individual and confirmed by miracles. In modern religions the spirit is expressed through the many and confirmed by reason.

Women, it turns out, are built to lead - particularly in the modern world.

Every modern war has had its roots in exploitation.

Were modern cities only beautiful after darkness hid everything but their lights?

Twentieth-century American poetry has been one of the glories of modern literature.

I prefer more of the modern stuff - just because I can associate with the imagery more.

I do not know where to find in any literature, whether ancient or modern, any adequate account of that Nature with which I am acquainted.

How little do the most wonderful inventions of modern times detain us. They insult nature. Every machine, or particular application, seems a slight outrage against universal laws.

A modern author would have died in infancy in a ruder age.

As modern society is formed against the backdrop of a permanent war zone, a carceral state and hyper-militarism, the social stature of the military and soldiers has risen.

I lay off a lot modern fiction and only rely on living writers for non-fiction work.

In modern studios, we're so used to becoming little dictators; you're used to the fascism of having complete control over every element.

It is not my purpose as a poet to condemn war (or to be exact, modern warfare). I only wish to present the universal aspects of a particular event.

The modern artist, by nature and destiny, is always an individualist.

The great modern heresy in poetry is to confuse the use we make of words in a poem with modalities of speech...For true poetry is never speech but always a song.

Never neglect an opportunity to play leap-frog; it is the best of all games, and, unlike the terribly serious and conscientious pastimes of modern youth, will never become professionalized.

We can build a new modern electric grid. That's a lot of jobs; that's a lot of new economic activity.

Donald Trump is the most dangerous person to run for president in the modern history of America.

Modern reformers offer nebulous theories or write philanthropic novels. But your thief acts! He is as clear as a fact and as logical as a punch on the nose! And what a style he has!

We are the great grassroots campaign of the modern era, built from mousepads, shoe leather and hope.

In the United States there has been a kind of a structure in the Modern art world. The New York School was nearly a coherent thing-for a minute.

When modern writers gave up telling stories, they gave up the greatest thing we had.

Like most modern Americans, I assume individuality is not only a fundamental value, but a goal in life, an art form.

Only a modern army will be able to fight a modern war.

We need justice. We need toleration, honesty and moral courage. These are modern virtues without which we cannot hope to control the forces science has let loose among us.

I do think any modern storyteller is influenced by the stories we all grow up with and become familiar with, our shared cultural narratives.

Many modern philosophers claim that probability is relation between an hypothesis and the evidence for it.

was it possible that i was, in the modern term, in denial?

Well, I am very happy that I was able to play a part in bringing music from the streets onto the radio and into modern culture, I worked very hard and always believed in the sounds I was creating.

How is it possible for people in the modern world to go on killing each other for religion? The problems we should be concerned with nowadays are quite different!

This damned ranting about doom. Is that food for the minds of modern people? Do they really expect us to take them seriously?

The message of guidance that neither politics nor philosophy nor religion now seems able to provide, we look for in modern literature.

To the modern spirit, disillusioned, or at least unillusioned, the great evil to be avoided is sentimentality.

The great modern novel of the comic-pathetic illusion of freedom is Confessions of Zeno .

Most writers flinch at the thought of being completely honest about themselves. So absolute honesty is what marks the true modern.

People remember Longfellow wrote Hiawatha, quite forget he was a Professor of Modern Languages!

Most modern painters work from a different source. They work from within.

The aim of modern propaganda is no longer to modify ideas, but to provoke action.

Modern science has its value in terms of utility, but it cannot open up existence to human experience.

Ronald Reagan is the first modern President whose contempt for the facts is treated as a charming idiosyncrasy.

As a modern employer you have to treat people well.

Stop viewing China like it's the Cold War. Start viewing them as a modern member of the industrialized world.

Old events have modern meanings; only that survives of past history which finds kindred in all hearts and lives.