Modern Quotes

Modern houses are so small we've had to train our dog to wag its tail up and down and not sideways.

Music is a continuum and the modern and avant-garde composers of today will be part of the standard repertoire 30 years from now.

Modern instruments were designed to throw sound all in one direction.

The Declaration of Independence is so lucid were afraid of it today. It scares the hell out of every modern bureaucrat, because it tells them there comes a time when we must stop taking orders.

Midas, they say, possessed the art of old; Of turning whatsoe'er he touch'd to gold; This modern statesmen can reverse with ease - Touch them with gold, they'll turn to what you please.

Chesterton spoke of 'the modern and morbid habit of always sacrificing the normal to the abnormal.' It would be hard to sum up liberalism for succinctly.

And yet shall Love himself be heard,Though long deferred, though long deferred:O'er the modern waste a dove hath whirred:Music is Love in search of a word.

More than half of modern culture depends upon what one shouldn't read.

No medieval monarch in the whole of British history ever had such power as every modern British Prime Minister has in his or her hands. Nor does any American President have power approaching this

I know a lot of choreographers prefer to do abstract dance and not be bothered with a story, but even when I'm asked to do classical ballet or a modern piece, I still want to tell a story.

Modern art is a disaster area. Never in the field of human history has so much been used by so many to say so little.

The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yoghurt.

The modern artist... is working and expressing an inner world - in other words - expressing the energy, the motion, and other inner forces.

Most poetry is very formal, but when a modern poet is formal he gets more attention for it than old poets did.

What's all this fuss about plutonium? How can something named after a Disney character be dangerous?

It is the aim of the modern school, not to treat every position according to one general law, but according to the principle inherent in the position

We must kill the street. We shall truly enter into modern town planning only after we have accepted this preliminary determination.

I have never been able to soothe myself with the sugary delusions of religion; for these things stand convicted of the utmost absurdity in light of modern scientific knowledge.

Libertarians recognize the inevitable pluralism of the modern world and for that reason assert that individual liberty is at least part of the common good.

Access to talented and creative people is to modern business what access to coal and iron ore was to steel-making.

Modern music is three farts and a raspberry, orchestrated.

Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism.

No doubt one may quote history to support any cause, as the devil quotes scripture; but modern history is not a very satisfactory side-arm in political polemics; it grows less and less so.

For example, computer defends well, but for humans its is harder to defend than attack, particularly with the modern time control.

The strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art.

Ancient philosophy proposed to mankind an art of living. By contrast, modern philosophy appears above all as the construction of a technical jargon reserved for specialists.

In modern praxis lost positions are salvaged most often when the play is highly complicated with many sharp dynamic variations to be calculated.

In its most limited sense, modern, art would seem to concern itself only with the technical innovations of the period.

The new physics provides a modern version of ancient spirituality. In a universe made out of energy, everything is entangled; everything is one.

If modern civilization man had to kill the animals he eats, the number of vegetarians would rise astronomically.

People on death row, the treatment of animals, women's right to choose. So much in America is based on religious fundamentalist Christianity. Grow up! This is the modern world!

It is better to imitate ancient than modern work.

To be modern only means to fill new forms with eternal truths.

Being frozen into the passive position of an object whose very existence depends on the eye of its beholder turn the educated modern Western women into a harem slave.

People can defame anyone they like, people can write anything they like. But non-accountability is a part of modern Indian culture.

In the hysterical technocracy of modern music, sorrow is sent to the back of the class where it sits, pissing its pants in mortal terror.

The worst thing about the miracle of modern communications is the Pavlovian pressure it places upon everyone to communicate whenever a bell rings.

Along with planes, running water, electricity, and motorized transportation, the internet is now a fundamental fact of modern life.

Modern religious teaching have little or nothing to say about the place of prudence in life or in the hierarchy of virtues.

Both the young and the old are almost completely useless in our modern society, and are made keenly aware of that uselessness. They have no place. They are private, isolated - and hopeless.

Modern capitalist nations are the fruit of a history of slavery, genocide, violence and exploitation every bit as abhorrent as Mao's China or Stalin's Soviet Union.

It is really a matter of ending this silence and solitude, of breathing and stretching one's arms again.

High and low culture come together in all Post Modern art, and American poetry is not excluded from this.

The modern dilemma is essentially a spiritual one, and every one of its main aspects, moral, political and scientific, brings us back to the need of a religious solution.

I like musicianship, and it's quite lacking in most modern popular music. You're always safe with old Chicago, the Allman Brothers, Gov't Mule, or Tower of Power.

My look is a Modern Bohemian type thing.

This is what happens, when, for the first time in modern history, a candidate resorts to lawsuits to try to overturn the outcome of an election for president.

Here we have the great irony of modern nutrition: at a time when hundreds of millions of people do not have enough to eat, hundreds of millions more are eating too much and are overweight or obese.

With the help of modern technology, I can compose intricate keyboard parts and then I have to go back and learn them in order to perform them properly.

Modern medicine, for all its advances, knows less than 10 percent of what your body knows instinctively.