Best 855 quotes in «modern quotes» category

I don't think people ever were free of fear of death, but clinging to life and being so unprepared for it is a modern experience.

I don`t think we have thought of ourselves, at least in a modern iteration, as being a nationalist country or a country that has nationalist movements.

I don't think there's anything remotely "new" or "experimental" about any modern metal bands.

I don't understand the notion that modern farming is anything do to with nature. It's a pretty gross interference with nature.

I'd say that the modern social sciences are just showing us why the conditions for implementing Hudud are so demanding, and thus Hudud should only be for the absolutely last resort.

I enjoy the freedom of modern dance as well as the constraints of classical dance.

If comics are modern mythology, then black participation and representation is crucial.

I felt that we could hardly improve on the conception of the university expressed by one of the founders of the modern system, Wilhelm von Humboldt, also one of the founders of classical liberalism. That seems to me true today as well, though ideals of course have to be adapted to changing circumstances.

If modern art has produced symbols that are unfamiliar, that was only to be expected.

If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.

If nobody comes to your shows, then it's modern dance. If everybody comes to your shows and no one likes it, is that ballet? I don't know.

If somebody says 'singer-songwriter' to me, the first person I think of is James Taylor. There are plenty of modern singer-songwriters, but there is something about James Taylor that has always resonated with me.

I generally hate the luxury modern apartment with too many things out of sight and so clean you cannot touch.

If you're from a certain generation, you basically learn to read with 'Peanuts.' It's sort of the template for the modern strip. Its influence ceased to be noticed because it's in everything.

If the Negro is not careful he will drink in all the poison of modern civilization and die from the effects of it.

If you don't trust the roots of the modern music in Africa, then there's hope for that music at all.

If you, however, separate reason and faith so that it's purely a rationalistic scheme, it will end in violence. If a pure faith scheme - sometimes called the fundamentalist scheme in modern parlance - you'll end in violence too.

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

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 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 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 hate brandy...it stinks of modern literature.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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 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 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 love to collect modern art.

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 just a survivor from the train wreck of the modern world.