Best 855 quotes in «modern quotes» category

I have grown used to the fact that public repentance is the most unacceptable option for the modern politician.

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 have seen productions of Julius Caesar that set it in a modern, Western context and it just looks as though they're getting rid of a particularly cantankerous chairman of the board rather than the great leader of the world.

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.

I have trouble with modern art. But in general, all art forms fascinate me - art is the way human beings express what we can't say in words.

I hope to be remembered as an author who defined and exemplified excellence in crafting the modern love story.

I kind of lost interest in the classical dance. I was very much interested in the modern choreography.

I, Kusama, am the modern Alice in Wonderland.

I like newspapers. Maybe the iPad is very modern and everything, and I'm not against it, but I like the physical contact. And the physical contact of metal and glass is not as sensuous as paper.

I like doing whatever interests me. It's a challenge for me to try to make good comics out of any genre I tackle. I trust my instincts in getting me through the more difficult genres for modern readers, like violent crime or horror stories.

I lay off a lot modern fiction and only rely on living writers for non-fiction work.

I like the 50s, party-movie aesthetic of the beach. I'm not really into modern-day beach.

I love Modern Family but it's among a handful of favorite shows.

I love art, I collect mostly modern art.

I love going to art galleries. The Tate Modern is one of my favourite things to do. But I don't invest in the history of it and I don't read up on it. I am a guy who would buy a print rather than buy an original.

I love new writing, new blood, modern works by unknown writers.

I love music.. everything from R&B to Rap to Modern Country.. I still haven't figured out my own personal vibe.. it was sort of Nora Jones then sort of electronic.. then country.. it is very hard to make it in the music industry so we shall see if I ever find the time to finish it!

I love to collect modern art.

I love the inappropriateness of age-old wisdom in modern slang. These things are all so wonderful to me.

I love Tate Modern; there's such great style and shopping here. I love the galleries and the pubs out on the street, just having your pint as the sun is setting.

I'm afraid that's in the nature of modern politics - it's as much conducted by abuse as argument.

I'm also interested in the modern suggestion that you can have a combination of love and sex in a marriage - which no previous society has ever believed.

I'm making music the way I would have done before modern equipment and music recording.

I'm just a survivor from the train wreck of the modern world.

I'm modern because I make the difficult seem easy, and so I can communicate with the whole world.

I'm never going to be a modern gal. I love colonial. I love early American. I love a big rectangular piece of brown furniture on a hardwood floor.

I'm not an anti-online person. I get what the modern world's about and I understand that that's the nature of music dissemination.

I must settle for freedom in this modern time

I much prefer the modern world.

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

In a modern democracy, not only can a libertarian be elitist; a libertarian has to be elitist. To be a libertarian in a modern democracy is to say that nearly 300 million Americans are wrong, and a handful of nay-sayers are right.

In brief, egoism in its modern interpretation, is the antithesis, not of altruism, but of idealism.

Indeed, Britain was set to repeat the old, familiar cycle of boom and bust. Since then, we have created and rigorously adhered to a new framework of modern economic management

Indeed, one modern President abjured God altogether, ending speeches with a chaste 'Thank you very much.' This was Jimmy Carter, the most genuinely devout President of the postwar period.

Indeed, if communist central planners could have organized the economy with as much detail, precision, and flexibility as a modern-day Toyota or Wal-Mart, communism would probably still exist.

In earlier religions the spirit of the time was expressed through the individual and confirmed by miracles. In modern religions the spirit is expressed through the many and confirmed by reason.

Industrialism, whether of the capitalist or socialist coloration, is the basic tyrant of the modern age.

In Egypt, a civil state means a modern nationalist state that is compatible with Islamist provisions.

I never call myself modern or traditional, in our out, new or used, because I prefer not to be hemmed in by rigid definitions.

I never really enjoyed getting a portfolio together then sending it out; whereas, putting up the website is quite an enjoyable experience. The net's just a much faster and more modern way to distribute things, and you have to embrace it.

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.

Information is the religion of the modern world.

In modern pharmacology it's so clear that even if you have a fixed dose of a drug, the individuals respond very differently to one and the same dose.

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

In modern Greek history, there is a close relationship between national humiliation and political radicalization.

In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.

In modern times, if the sole measure of what’s out there flows from your five senses then a precarious life awaits you.

In modern Britain the most dangerous place to be is in your mother's womb. It should be a place of sanctity.

In modern times sound policy-making must often come to grips with numbers.

In my youth it was said that what was too silly to be said may be sung. In modern economics it may be put into mathematics.