Modern Quotes

There might be some sinister modern form of slavery going on.

Josh Gad and I have been friends since the time he auditioned for Modern Family. I directed the pilot for that, and that's how we met.

My musical tastes go from Zeppelin to Bob Dylan to Kanye West and Lil' Wayne. Anything modern and progressive.

I mean, the 1930s are the birth moment of modern public sector, government-driven infrastructure spending.

Our modern ideas of 'functioning' through things are really quite inhuman. We have this idea that no matter what is going on we still have to color between the lines, act normal.

People tend to view history as if it were another planet and think the modern world was invented in 1963. I don't agree.

America is losing faith in modern medicine, and for good reason.

The 'drugs or surgery only approach that modern medicine uses to treat today's diseases is archaic.

I would loathe to work on modern films.

I don't understand what modern clothes are about at all.

The modern clercs have created in so-called cultivated society a positive romanticism of harshness. The have also created a romanticism of contempt.

The modern moralists extol ... the cult of practical activity in defiance of the disinterested life.

So,high heels weren't a modern invention. I couldn't believe women had been putting up with these torture devices for centuries.

The modern essay has regained a good deal of its literary status in our time, much to the credit of Joseph Epstein.

Modern feminism cannot survive without victims.

I don't think people ever were free of fear of death, but clinging to life and being so unprepared for it is a modern experience.

The Internet is the great highway of the modern communication, free and independent.

I much prefer the modern world.

The integral vision embodies an attempt to take the best of both worlds, ancient and modern. But that demands a critical stance willing to reject unflinchingly the worst of both as well.

Smart hiring managers in the modern world should be asking, “How long can you concentrate on a task before you have to take a break?” I wonder how many of them do?

The tendency of modern American women to exclaim 'Hiiiiiiiiiiii!' in soprano octaves and hug each other upon sight can be disconcerting to those unfamiliar with it.

I wanted to write about Afghanistan before the Soviet war because that is largely a forgotten period in modern Afghan history.

I really like the bohemian look, and I'm a great fan of mixing vintage and modern.

Dead Witch Walking is basically a modern-day witch living in Cincinnati.

I'm obsessed with 'Game of Thrones.' I love comedies - I really like '30 Rock' and 'Modern Family.'

Dracula, if he could see modern corporations, wouldnt like them much. He took care of his people, at least as he saw it. They had very little freedom, but they had a protector.

We are never as modern, as far ahead of the past as we like to think we are.

It is a sobering thought that Gomer Pyle and the Beverly Hillbillies may be among our chief interstellar emissaries.

I really wanted to break the mold of what modern touring is right now.

The jumbo jet is the airborne equivalent of the interstate highway...One might as well be stuffed into a cartridge and shot through a pneumatic tube, like interoffice mail.

Some modern scholars contend that in terms of what "religion" was in that [Roman-era setting], you can't even call Christianity a religion.

I think that Rodney Stark studies of new religious movements in the modern world give us some insights into the kinds of questions that we can ask about early Christianity.

We are so Post-Modern that we don't realize how Post-Modern we are anymore.

"Writing" is the Latin of our times. The modern language of the people is video and sound.

The apathy of the modern voter is the confusion of the modern reformer.

The modern athlete is an individual corporation. I'm not quite sure it's very good for sport, or good for team work, or those different things that sport says it's about. This is about business.

The struggle of the spirit against the senses is the gospel of modern man. I do not wish to have any part in it.

Modern capitalism has created a world totally different from anything known before.

The blues is also existential and offers a sense of mature reflection that enabled it to be the leitmotif of modern life.

I grew up in a modern business environment and did not experience the kind of prejudice that my mother and grandfather experienced.

That was the peak. I just knew it was modern, not traditional culture. I could be cool

I suppose I see myself as a modern soul artist.

I think the big thing is the fairy tale. It's taking old folk fairy tales and retelling them in modern day. I think it's just taking you out of everyday life, and everyone loves a good fairy tale.

China is the greatest mystifying and stupefying fact in the modern world.

When I was 20 I was immensely proud of the rows of grey-spined Penguin Modern Classics in my bookcase.

Modern poets are bells of lead. They should tinkle melodiously but usually they just klunk.

Modern man lives increasingly in the future and neglects the present.

As a modern woman, there are things I take for granted, and that shows up in the way I sit, the way I walk, the way I think, and what I know to be possible.

When I was at Manchester, where there was a modern swimming pool, I was looked on as a great man, not for so trivial a reason as being an FRS, but because I used to dive off a five-metre board.

I disagree with the idea that modern dancers are cold or unemotional.