Best 855 quotes in «modern quotes» category

It's modern-day slavery.

It's the modern world, so it's pretty much the same. Everyone follows America, from all over the world.

I've always aligned myself with a more modern, European fit. I maintain that fit is the thing that makes or breaks an outfit. Good tailoring trumps designer and price any day.

It's not just modern-day society that is liberal.

I used to dance when I was younger - ballet and modern dance.

I've always loved King Kong. He's like a modern-day myth, an icon of the cinema.

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)

I've never known, at least a modern historical instance, where the truth wasn't superior to distortion in every way.

It was easier to do Shakespeare than a lot of modern movie scripts that are so poorly written.

I wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read.

I've read some of your modern free verse and wonder who set it free.

I've had to adjust to karaoke as a modern reality that obscures our hunt for what we're truly after.

I was partly old-fashioned and partly modern.

I wanted to make sure to always stay current, try to find new material and stay with the modern techniques.

I was horrified by modern 12-tone music. I said to myself, 'Maybe I can find something different... maybe salvation, liberation, is possible.

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.

I would consider a socialism a mixture of the minimum of centralization necessary for a modern industrial state, and a maximum of decentralization.

I would hope that wherever Sheryl Crow, Paula Cole, and Fiona get played is where I'd be played. And right now that seems to be the modern Adult Contemporary market.

I would loathe to work on modern films.

I wouldn't call myself a modern Shakespeare, but Shakespeare was probably to his generation what I am to mine.

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

[John] Calvin's Institutes is often called a summary of Christian piety. You can't say that about many modern works of theology. You can say it of Calvin.

Kitsch is all that the modern world makes that's not modern, which is most of it.

Lana del Rey is not bad at all. She looks very much like a modern-time singer. In her photos she is beautiful. Is she a construct with all her implants? She's not alone with implants.

I was a big fan of Kurt Russell growing up and I always wanted to be the modern day Kurt Russell.

Knitted fur is so modern and light, it makes this retro shape cool again.

Large motorway flyovers are the cathedrals of the modern world.

Like nature itself, modern economic life is driven by relentless competition and unbridled selfishness. Or is it?

Libertarianism is rejected by the modern left - which preaches individualism but practices collectivism. Capitalism is rejected by the modern right-which preaches enterprise but practices protectionism.

London is a modern Babylon.

Land: A part of the earth's surface, considered as property. The theory that land is property subject to private ownership and control is the foundation of modern society, and is eminently worthy of the superstructure.

Look, I live in the modern world as much as anyone else.

Like many members of the uncultured, Cheez-It consuming public, I am not good at grasping modern art.

Many in the modern world fell for the myth that we're living in a static, fixed, flat reality of just material things.

Many modern philosophers claim that probability is relation between an hypothesis and the evidence for it.

Many people don't know that you don't spend 10 minutes without using a satellite. Or that agriculture is managed from space. Banking, too. The space program is like our airports and highways. It's not a luxury. It's part of the fabric of the modern world.

Maps of Time attempts to assemble a coherent and accessible account of origins, a modern creation myth.

Make it new is the message not just of modern art but of modern consumerism, of which modern art is largely a mirror image.

Masculine ideals have become very confused in the modern world.

Marxism is the modern form of Jewish prophecy.

'Love' has that Kubrick tonality to it, but this is not a Stanley Kubrick movie - there will never be another. At the same time, 'Love' has a modern feel. For example: In one scene, these astronauts go through a wormhole sequence, and you feel like you're being slapped around inside your head by a sonic boom.

Memorials become relics if they do not stir our modern conscience.

Maybe the most interesting find in my research is that it is clear that Ronald Reagan, among all modern presidents, plainly rediscovered the founders.

Mathematics as we know it and as it has come to shape modern science could never have come into being without some disregard for the dangers of the infinite.

Modern agriculture has been accurately described as a way of turning oil into food. As the price of oil continues to rise, so will the price of food.

Mini dresses that have an over skirt of tulle makes it traditional and modern at the same time.

Modern American magic, late 20th century magic, is tremendously disrespectful of the audience.

Modern Americans behave as if intelligence were some sort of hideous deformity.

Modern agriculture is the use of land to convert petroleum into food.

Modern animated movies are the products not of anyone’s individual vision, but rather a scattered accumulation of compromises made out of fear by members of large committees.