Best 855 quotes in «modern quotes» category

I got into trad jazz, then modern jazz, then avant-garde jazz, between the ages of 16 to 18.

I guess, is we are not saying, "Look, William Shakespeare's written a critique of modern Africa." What we're saying is that we've shifted the metaphor to make it more immediate.

I had art as a major, along with English, French and History. I had dance, modern dance. In English I was allowed to write my own poetry, which I eventually got published.

I had changed from being a mathematician to a practicing scientist. I was increasingly embarassed that I could no longer follow some of the more modern branches of pure mathematics.

I had previously been in the band the Modern Lovers with Jonathan Richman.

I hate brandy...it stinks of modern literature.

I have a hard time picturing several aspects of the modern world without Luther.

I have always been obsessed by the company and making sure that the company is the most contemporary, the most modern of all the players, and delivering the most accurate service for our client.

I have always maintained that the one important phenomenon presented by modern society is - the enormous prosperity of Fools.

I have a passion for modern and contemporary art.

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

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

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 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 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 switched on this modern laptop machine. And I have told myself that I must resist the temptation to start playing solitaire upon it.

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

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

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, Kusama, am the modern Alice in Wonderland.

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

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

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

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 love to collect modern art.

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

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

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

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 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.

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.

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'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

I must settle for freedom in this modern time

I much prefer the modern world.

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

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, 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

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

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.

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.

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.