Modern Quotes

Let the meek inherit the earth -- they have it coming to them.

You have to be physical - that's the way it is in a midfield in the modern game.

I do find modern jazz quite tricky.

But I think it's quite clear in my work that my orientation isn't political or doesn't come out of modern politics.

Another thing he told his customers was that one of the great accounting unknowns of the modern age was how to value knowledge. It was an exciting field.

My house is modern, but I like my writing room to be old fashioned. I write on a little wooden secretary desk.

In terms of publicity and interviews, well, it's really hard in this modern world to keep a sense of mystery.

Reality TV was to me the worst form of entertainment--the modern equivalent of paying sixpence to watch lunatics howling at the wall down at the local madhouse.

It's hard to do a camera inside of a car. Non-Stop would have been impossible. Usually modern lenses you can focus up to the lens pretty much, but anamorphic you can't. You need like three feet.

The best songs of this [modern] period - the apocalyptic "High Water," for example - return [Bob] Dylan to where he was in his first phase, updating and transforming American traditional music.

Even modern wars are fought like revenge tales from some petty grievance.

For me to be pompous is the most horrible thing in the world. It's like putting a wall around you. It screws you up. You'd better be willing to change your views or adapt and be modern.

Like many a modern parent, I had no clear notion of how to help my most troubled child.

I cannot understand why some people try to write a history of photography that is separated from the history of modern art.

The plight of modern man is that he is condemmed to be free.

I think that there is absolutely no free market in modern industrial states.

The stories in Get In Trouble confirm once again that Kelly Link is a modern virtuoso of the form-playful and subversive required reading for anyone who loves short fiction.

I think that's very important for romantic comedies, that they do deal with [modern]issues.

I'd like to do a little bit of everything. I think the only thing I can't do is a British accent, so that's out. No Shakespeare for me. Unless it's like one of those modern-day remakes.

It was easier to do Shakespeare than a lot of modern movie scripts that are so poorly written.

As I got older, I started to do it more and more, and I wanted to learn all of the different types. I grew up doing modern, so I wanted to learn ballet, tap, jazz, and African - just everything.

Indeed, if communist central planners could have organized the economy with as much detail, precision, and flexibility as a modern-day Toyota or Wal-Mart, communism would probably still exist.

Anything based on ancient texts is difficult for a modern reader to get their head around.

With all its excesses, the modern impressionistic movement has given us one discovery, the color violet. It is the only discovery of importance in the art world since Velazquez.

There's good stuff going on in modern pop music, but a lot of it is really materialistic and only about money.

I'm a traditional country singer and we're always trying to make that a fresh and modern sound. That's always going to be the challenge with me.

Modern poets mix too much water with their ink. [Ger., Neuere Poeten thun viel Wasser in die Tinte.]

Death is a new office building filled with modern furniture, A wise thing, but which has no purpose for us.

In our modern world we have seen inaugurated the reign of a dull bourgeois rationalism, which finds some inadequate reason for all things in heaven and earth and makes a god of its own infallibility.

E-mails are the cancer of modern business.

There is no other airport in the world which serves so many people and so many airplanes. This is an extraordinary airport. . . it could be classed as one of the wonders of the modern world.

We can sometimes recognize the looks of a century ago on a modern face; but never those of a century to come.

An aphorism is a generalization, therefore not modern.

The great majority of modern third-person narration is "I" narration very thinly disguised.

Take modern courtships! They resulted in the same thing as under George the Second, but took longer to reach it, owing to the motor-cycle and the standing lunch.

I find the public reaction to writing - it's fascinating in this modern age. Of course people are able to interact with me and email me, and I get quite a few I suppose.

I'm a modern mountebank - I believe in Physiognomy - after all, we are in control of our face - it's the map of where we've been.

The massive reduction in risk that is inherent in the development of the modern corporation has been far from fully appreciated.

We live in a very modern age and the dynamic of raising kids and being a professional are intersecting a lot more - especially for women.

Modern animated movies are the products not of anyone’s individual vision, but rather a scattered accumulation of compromises made out of fear by members of large committees.

The modern campus is deeply obsessed by race and gender, and not much else.

Fish and guests in three days are stale.

What happened in the Western world was that Plato ceased to be the way people thought. Aristotle was rediscovered, and the modern, educated world moved toward Aristotelian thinking.

It is not possible . . . to concentrate enough military planes with military loads over a modern city to destroy that city.

Still very active And rarely seen apart You're teenage geriatrics Modern and young at heart

A song stylist is, like, to take an old folk song like "Delia's Gone" and do a modern white man's version of it.

I don't do well with modern films, to be honest. Opening credits, and I'm just gone.

The only book by a modern president that bears serious comparison with Obama's 'Dreams From My Father' is Jimmy Carter's short campaign autobiography, 'Why Not the Best?,' published in 1975.

Indeed, one modern President abjured God altogether, ending speeches with a chaste 'Thank you very much.' This was Jimmy Carter, the most genuinely devout President of the postwar period.

A good example of the modern world is the Eurotunnel. And mobile phones - I like them.