Modern Quotes
Modern medicine, for all its advances, knows less than 10 percent of what your body knows instinctively.
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.
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.
The evolution of the capitalist style of life could be easily - and perhaps most tellingly - described in terms of the genesis of the modern Lounge Suit.
I think there is a way to be formal and elegant and classy, but more modern. Brad Pitt has been changing it, and Will Smith has been doing it in his own way.
One listens to one's lawyer prattle on as long as one can stand it and then signs where indicated.
A reminder (Japan's earthquake and tsunami) how flimsy our sophisticated modern world really is
Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.
We are increasingly likely to find ourselves in places with background music. No composers have thought to write for these modern spaces, which represent 30% of our musical experience.
Conservatives have no understanding of modern capitalism. They have a distorted understanding of the traditional values they claim to defend.
There is more fine abstract design in Navajo rugs than in all these modern paintings.
In modern industrial society only minimal effort is necessary to satisfy one's physical needs.
After closely examining my conscience, I venture to state that in my historical novels I intended the content to be just as modern and up-to-date as in the contemporary ones.
I'm very classic and structural. I love clean lines and interesting, modern details. But I'm all about being streamlined - less is more.
That's why modern corporate movie making has become so laborious that comedians are kind of kicked out by 50.
For my part I distrust all generalizations about women, favorable and unfavorable, masculine and feminine, ancient and modern; all alike, I should say, result from paucity of experience.
Such is modern computing: everything simple is made too complicated because it's easy to fiddle with; everything complicated stays complicated because it's hard to fix.
However far modern science and techniques have fallen short of their inherent possibilities, they have taught mankind at least one lesson; nothing is impossible.
By bringing Little Sun to Tate Modern and the London Olympics, I hope to realise an art project for those who typically have no access to global events of this scale.
Don't be carried off your feet by anything because it is modern - the latest thing. Go to the Louvre often and spend a good deal of time before the Rembrandts, the Delacroixs.
A cynic might suggest as the motto of modern life this simple legend-"just as good as the real.
It's hard for the modern generation to understand Thoreau, who lived beside a pond but didn't own water skis or a snorkel.
So much for modern science and its wonderful discoveries that just about everything can kill you. Life is only a bedtime story before a long, long sleep.
Modern philosophy certainly exacts a surrender of all supernaturalism and fixed dogma and rigid institutionalism with which Christianity has been historically associated
Modern man thinks he loses something - time - when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains, except kill it.
Modern poetry, for me, began not in English at all but in Spanish, in the poems of Lorca.
The rules of parenting have changed. By the modern definition, we were a generation of neglected children.
Loneliness is the price we have to pay for being born in this modern age, so full of freedom, independence, and our own egotistical selves.
What matters in modern music is not the part you can write down, the words and the tune, but the rest - the texture, the atmosphere, the references and associations.
The history of human use of plants, mushrooms, and animals for their psychedelic effects is far older than written history, and probably predates the appearance of the modern human species.
Nowadays there is more dynamism in chess, modern players like to take the initiative. Usually they are poor defenders though.
An island Utopia in a modern, busy, everyday world. A land where there are neither rich nor poor. A heaven on earth - without a fence around it.
It has been claimed at times that our modern age of technology facilitates dictatorship.
On their way toward modern science human beings have discarded meaning. The concept is replaced by the formula, the cause by rules and probability.
All sober inquirers after truth, ancient and modern, pagan and Christian, have declared that the happiness of man, as well as his dignity, consists in virtue.
With our knowledge of modern-day genetics, we realize that it was possible for God to place the potential for all people throughout history into the genes of Adam and Eve when He created them.
As the spiral of modern art history continues to wind down, we can see the increasing demand for tradition in the visual arts.
Striving humbly but heroically to live by what is good, true, and noble in the midst of - and in spite of - the modern climate.
I should say that being independent in the modern model means independent in a very interdependent world. An independent Scotland is not apart from the rest of the United Kingdom.
New York is the cubist, the futurist city. It expresses in its architecture, its life, its spirit, the modern thought.
I am truly horrified by modern man. Such absence of feeling, such narrowness of outlook, such lack of passion and information, such feebleness of thought.
In order to eliminate discrimination, the Modern Liberal has opted to become utterly indiscriminate.
I'm not very geeky. I'm quite homespun. I would say I'm more modern rustic than gadget-orientated. I like woollen things and log fires and whiskey
No doubt those who really founded modern science were usually those whose love of truth exceeded their love of power.
Modern mathematics, that most astounding of intellectual creations, has projected the mind's eye through infinite time and the mind's hand into boundless space.
