Best 855 quotes in «modern quotes» category

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

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

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

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

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

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 partly old-fashioned and partly modern.

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 loathe to work on modern films.

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.

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

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

[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.

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

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

London is a modern Babylon.

Large motorway flyovers are the cathedrals of the modern world.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

'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.

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

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.

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

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

Masculine ideals have become very confused in the modern world.

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.

Marxism is the modern form of Jewish prophecy.

Menstrual blood is the only source of blood that is not traumatically induced. Yet in modern society, this is the most hidden blood, the one so rarely spoken of and almost never seen, except privately by women.

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

Modern American liberalism is nothing but the socialism too stupid to recognize itself in the mirror.

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

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.

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.

Modern church music is so constructed that the congregation cannot hear one distinct word.

Modern diplomats approach every problem with an open mouth.

Modern American marriage is like a wire fence. The woman's the wire -the posts are the husband's.

Modern art to me is nothing more than the expression of contemporary aims of the age that we're living in.

Modern capitalism appears totally incapable of mobilizing these untapped human and resources.

Modern education too often covers the fingers with rings, and at the same time cuts the sinews at the wrist.

Modern life is confusing no "Ms take" about it.

Modern man is battered by the fundamental forces of his own psyche.

Modern poets are bells of lead. They should tinkle melodiously but usually they just klunk.