Modern Quotes
To have a museum like the Museum of Modern Art in New York is to have power. I don't have any interest in being the director of an institution that has power.
Modern as the style of Pascal's writing is, his thought is deeply impregnated with the spirit of the Middle Ages. He belonged, almost equally, to the future and to the past.
There has been an effect of business rap on the output of today's rap music. But I don't think that's the modern day rapper's fault.
Modern civilization has taught us to convert night into day and golden silence into brazen din and noise.
The British Government in India constitutes a struggle between modern civilization, which is the Kingdom of Satan, and the ancient civilization, which is the Kingdom of God.
The "pursuit of happiness" is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world.
It is in the interests of society to put the Pill into slot machines and to place cigarettes on prescription.
I am not going to be dictated to by the size of the camera. I use everything from an 8 x 10 to a 35-mm. But I don't use these modern cameras which break down all the time !
Unlike any other leader in modern American history, we are led today by a president that has decided to pit Americans against each other.
I have switched on this modern laptop machine. And I have told myself that I must resist the temptation to start playing solitaire upon it.
Even though modern life in many ways is nothing short of exhausting, we need to take responsibility for what is necessary to combat the stress and exhaustion of modern life.
I believe that modern science supports free will, in showing that the brain can act spontaneously, not only in response to external stimuli.
For Americans, the quickest way to understand modern Britain is to look at what LBJ's Great Society did to the black family and imagine it applied to the general population.
It's not often that I get to remember and use phrases like "on out my farm" or "powerful ugly" in modern scripts.
The modern nose, like the modern eye, has developed a sort of microscopic, intercellular intensity which makes our human contactspainful and revolting.
If it's a modern-day story dealing with certain ethnic groups, I think I could open up certain scenes for improvisation, while staying within the structure of the script.
City of rest! - as it seems to our modern senses, - how is it possible that so busy, so pitiless and covetous a life as history shows us, should have gone to the making and the fashioning of Venice!
A modern girls' school, equipped as scores are now equipped throughout the country, was of course not to be found in 1858, when I first became a school boarder, or in 1867, when I ceased to be one.
There is nothing for the modern man or woman to fear about most cases of cancer. Nothing except delay.
A seventeenth-century painting can be "modern" because the living eye finds it fresh and new. A "modern" painting can be outdated because it was a product of the moment and not of time.
In our long and obsessive passion for youth, we have - more than any other modern society - avoided direct approach to age and to dying by denying them in word, in fact, and - above all - in worth.
To be thoroughly modern, an aphorism should trail off vaguely rather than coming to a point.
Basically every song on modern metal albums follows a formula and you get that formula in between one to three tracks.
Sanity -- that is the great virtue of the ancient literature; the want of that is the great defect of the modern, in spite of its variety and power.
I like the fact that a modern television and modern drama on cable has characters that are really intricate and deep and have multiple layers.
Ancient and modern languages teem with happily expressed sentiments of more or less force and beauty, sufficiently individualized and excellent to warrant their reproduction and classification.
I have always been obsessed by the company and making sure that the company is the most contemporary, the most modern of all the players, and delivering the most accurate service for our client.
...I've learned exactly who the enemy are. I easily recognize them-business-suited in their modern American executive guise, each boss two feet taller than I am and impossible to meet eye to eye.
I think that what happens is that all of my modern influences blend together with the older soul influences and you get Mayer Hawthorne.
The average attention span of the modern human being is about half as long as whatever youre trying to tell them.
We have an idea - a very modern idea - that dying is undignified. But I think this is because we have the illusion that we can control our bodies and our fates.
It's the modern world, so it's pretty much the same. Everyone follows America, from all over the world.
I was at university and I was studying modern drama and studying English, and I just was like, 'I don't wanna be in this place. I wanna be acting.'
I would hope that wherever Sheryl Crow, Paula Cole, and Fiona get played is where I'd be played. And right now that seems to be the modern Adult Contemporary market.
Physics was the first of the natural sciences to become fully modern and highly mathematical.Chemistry followed in the wake of physics, but biology, the retarded child, lagged far behind.
It is especially difficult for modern people to conceive that our modern, scientific age might not be an improvement over the prescientific period.
The history of modern nutritionism has been a history of macronutrients at war: protein against carbs; carbs against proteins, and then fats; fats against carbs.
The great thing about university is that they incline you to get up and do it, from the Classics to modern plays, to the humor that Monty Pythons made popular.
Modern capitalism appears totally incapable of mobilizing these untapped human and resources.
I don't want what I am saying to sound like a prophecy or anything like an analysis of modern society .... these are only feelings I have, and I am the least speculative man on earth.
When I was a child, I went to stage school three times a week in the evenings - singing, ballet, tap, modern and acting, and I loved it.
You're getting old when you see a girl who looks like someone you used to know, and it turns out to be her daughter.
Modern man worships at the temple of science, but science tells him only what is possible, not what is right.
I think therapeutic spirituality has largely been a help in the modern world. So the fact that people can approach religion with practical needs.