Modern Quotes

What I'm interested in is modern American history. I'm taken with the changes that have occurred in America in my lifetime.

I began with dance, doing ballet at 3, then tap, jazz, modern. Then I sang in church choirs, learned how to play clarinet and drums, sang with rock bands and only then did I get into musical theatre.

Ancient travelers guessed; modern travelers measure.

I go straight for Seinfeld, Modern Family, Friends, and Golden Girls. Those are my pillars of strength on TV.

From Euclid to Newton there were straight lines. The modern age analyzes the wavers.

I was right about one of the most significant issues in modern American history. I was the only one who was right about one of the most significant issues in modern American history.

An aspect of 'post-modern' approach to history is to include the mistakes and the prejudices of the era, without modernizing them or 'correcting' them according to our modern ideals.

When one goes to see Modern Times, for instance, one understands much more about socialism than listening to the man who was then head of the Socialist movement in Italy.

In the modern-day world, where time is premium and battle for subsistence is unimaginably tough, the hapless common man simply gives in and pays the bribe just to get on with life.

I don't like modern country music. It's not what I'm into, is all. I'm old-school.

Throughout its history, Islam has borrowed and adapted from other civilizations, both ancient and modern.

I’ve even delivered a few of their babies. (Wulf) Really? (Cassandra) Oh, yeah. You have to love the days before modern roads, and hospitals when I was up to my elbows in placenta. (Wulf)

Here's the tragedy of the modern record business: It's radio. If you're not on radio, nobody really is going to hear you or see you or care about you.

Sunnybrook Farm is now a parking lot; the petticoats are in the garbage can, where they belong in the modern world; and I detest censorship.

Philosophy for me is essentially atheistic. Now that's an anxious atheism. It's an atheism that is anxious because it inhabits questions that were resolved religiously in the pre-modern period.

With Spurr, I like to think we're a modern, European-influenced brand that does luxurious, handcrafted, and wearable pieces.

Modern life is given over to immoderation. Immoderation invades everything: actions and thought, public and private life.

Modern war appears as a struggle led by all the State apparatuses and their general staffs against all men old enough to bear arms.

Paris is one of the largest, and certainly it is the pleasantest, of modern American cities.

We have at our disposal modern techniques for seeing everything, apprehending everything, yet we see nothing.

Modern idols or false gods can take such forms as clothes, homes, businesses, machines, automobiles, pleasure boats, and numerous other material deflectors.

I wanted to be Laurence Olivier, basically, to be a great classical actor, and also be able to do modern things.

No one in the modern world controls the wealth or territory that Cleopatra did.

Because I work quite slowly, I have to keep myself interested over a long research and writing period. So I can't see myself writing about modern middle-class Londoners anytime soon.

If you're from a certain generation, you basically learn to read with 'Peanuts.' It's sort of the template for the modern strip. Its influence ceased to be noticed because it's in everything.

The idea that there will be something spiritual or subtle, some sort of consciousness that can escape the collapse of the body and brain, is not very credible in the modern scientific worldview.

I suppose the thing that really interests me is what mankind did with the big, big, big discoveries that have created our modern age.

Philosophers have not kept up with modern developments in science. Particularly physics.

I think one of the most pivotal moments in modern American history was Donald Trump's immediate withdraw from TPP.

The fundamentalists are insistent that they know best. It's a dictatorial attitude towards personal morality, which is a modern creation that came about in the 19th century.

Modern man creates fancy cars while losing the sacredness of his feet and lungs.

Karachi captures all of those rifts between ancient and modern, communal and individual. You see them playing out in people's lives.

Lili manages to mix Kate Bush with modern influences to make a beautifully unique sound based around her amazing violin skills and soulful voice.

I think the East India Company represents what we would think of as a very modern approach to the world where everything was counted, every penny was counted.

There's guilt about our treatment of native peoples in modern intellectual life, and an unwillingness to acknowledge there could be anything good about Western culture.

Nature will take precedence over the needs of the modern man.

Unlimited choice is paralyzing. The Internet has made this form of paralysis due to option overload a standard feature of comfortable modern life.

Sometimes I'm dazzled by how modern and fabulous we are, and how easy everything can be for us; that's the gilded glow of technology, and I marvel at it all the time.

There is not an inherent contradiction between a Ukraine that has longstanding historic and cultural ties to Russia, and a modern Ukraine that wants to integrate more closely with Europe.

Modern discussions of the possibility of tragedy are not exercises in literary analysis; they are exercises in cultural diagnostics, more or less disguised.

I'd live in a museum if I could. I used to spend hours and hours in the Museum of Modern Art.

To talk intelligibly about modern physics, we have to admit the possibility of uncaused events.

Without the necessary humility to worship, I subconsciously desired to be worshiped, not in a crazy Napoleanic manner, but like a modern-day celebrity.

Adolescence is a modern construct and very American in so many ways.

If you look on the Republican side, the two Republicans who have most energized young people in modern times are Ronald Reagan and Ron Paul.

If I remember correctly, the most efficient campaign in modern times, in terms of burn rate, had been Obama's 2012 reelect, which I believe the number was they spent 37 cents at every dollar.

I have never felt that the primary use of these things was to cure what is called in modern parlance neurosis, what I call unhappiness. It isn't for that.

I never define depression, clinical or otherwise. It's the basis of most life, it seems to me, in the modern world. We're all depressed.

I'm referred to, I see, as 'the biggest banker in modern publishing'. Now there's a line that needed the celebrated Guardian proof-reading.

Becoming a walking, dancing, fire-breathing lifestyle dragon is not something you can pursue overnight! It takes years of studying, living, and understanding the modern culture!