Best 855 quotes in «modern quotes» category

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.

Superficiality is the curse of the modern world.

Superman's original name was Kal-El, or Swift God. His father's name was Jor-El. Superman was clearly drawn as a modern-day god.

Take modern courtships! They resulted in the same thing as under George the Second, but took longer to reach it, owing to the motor-cycle and the standing lunch.

Television is such a staple of modern society that for most voters, it's not real unless it's on the tube.

Thank goodness modern convenience is a thing of the remote future.

That business of relaxation, which is so terribly modern today, is all good and well, but my work interests me so much, and is so varied, that many times it seems relaxing when I go from one aspect to another.

That is why my pictures don't look like modern art. It's some sort of timidity on my part I'm sure.

That's something lacking in a lot of modern-day families - just talking. It's almost a lost art form.

That's why modern corporate movie making has become so laborious that comedians are kind of kicked out by 50.

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

The academic area of new music or modern music festivals is not something which attracts me at all.

The accusation that we've lost our soul resonates with a very modern concern about authenticity.

The cost of electronics in a modern car now exceeds the cost of its stall.

The attempt to redefine the family as a purely voluntary arrangement grows out of the modern delusion that people can keep all their options open all the time.

The best thing about modern living is anaesthesia.

The classic literature is always modern.

The coolest thing about doing live shows is I'm able to give the songs a new life. So even thought they're old, I'm able to do them in a way that's modern.

The culture of modern Spain is something many people are still discovering.

The aim of modern propaganda is no longer to modify ideas, but to provoke action.

The beauty of science and the nature of scientific revelations constitute part of the modern theologian's perspective and toolbox.

The challenge of modern relationships: how to prove more interesting than the other's smartphone.

The combination of modern ordnance and outdated tactics had, as usual, created enormous casualties on both sides.

The disease of mutual distrust among nations is the bane of modern civilization

The essence of the modern state is the union of the universal with the full freedom of the particular, and with the welfare of individuals.

The Europeans who went to Africa came back with “modern' art. What is more African than a Picasso?

The effect of scent is really interesting. It can create a mood and change a feeling immediately. I wanted to create a modern wardrobe of fragrances ... fragrances that can be very personal to the woman who's wearing them.

The essence of the modern state is that the universal be bound up with the complete freedom of its particular members and with private well-being, that thus the interests of family and civil society must concentrate themselves on the state. It is only when both these moments subsist in their strength that the state can be regarded as articulated and genuinely organized.

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.

The fact is that much misunderstanding is often caused by our modern attempts to limit too strictly the meaning of a Greek word.

The great curse of modern political life is incrementalism.

The full-grown modern human being ... is conscious of touching the highest pinnacle of fulfillment... when he is consumed in the service of an idea, in the conquest of the goal pursued.

The 'gallows' are not only a symbol of death, but also a symbol of cruelty, terror and irreverence for life; the common denominator of primitive savagery, medieval fanaticism and modern totalitarianism.

The failure of modern living is the failure of the imagination...Literature is the royal road that enables us to enter the realm of the imagination.

The flat-brimmed cap is the modern day dunce cap.

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.

The great majority of modern third-person narration is "I" narration very thinly disguised.

The history of interactions among disparate peoples is what shaped the modern world through conquest, epidemics and genocide. Those collisions created reverberations that have still not died down after many centuries, and that are actively continuing in some of the world's most troubled areas.

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 watershed of modern poetry is French, more than English.

The higher processes are all processes of simplification. The novelist must learn to write, and then he must unlearn it; just as the modern painter learns to draw, and then learns when utterly to disregard his accomplishment, when to subordinate it to a higher and truer effect.

The history of modern culture is a history of popular entertainments evolving into art.

The impulse of modern art was this desire to destroy beauty.

The idea that human beings can make history, that is something quite unique to the modern West.

The important thing is not to do any agriculture whatsoever, and particularly to make the modern agricultural sciences a forbidden area - they're worse than witchcraft, really.

The man is the Piltdown Man of modern politics.

The Italian gangster thing has become a form of the modern-day Western

The limited liability corporation is the greatest single invention of modern times.

The machines, the modern mode of production, slowly undermined domestic production and not just for thousands but for millions of women the question arose: Where do we now find our livelihood?

The modern composer builds upon the foundation of truth.