Best 855 quotes in «modern quotes» category

How did Jefferson feel about the people of his day who were the equivalent of our modern day penecostals? You know, those revelation reveling tongue speaking idiots.

However, in modern conceptual frameworks there is a more sophisticated view. I would say that the act of music exists in several worlds simultaneously.

However, the word madda in modern Hebrew specifically means science.

Human beings seem to be far more autonomous and self-governed than modern psychological theory allows for.

How many modern transsexuals are unacknowledged shamans? Perhaps it is to poets they should go for counsel, rather than surgeons.

I always thought martial arts was the most modern choreography we could have right now, and I always wanted to put it to music.

Human trafficking is the illegal trade of human beings, mainly for the purposes of commercial sexual exploitation and forced labor. In short, it's modern day slavery.

I am not a modern man, I am just a wee old fashioned one.

I am a showman in the traditional sense, but modern, too. I like to use sets and lighting to create magic.

I am forced to the conclusion that modern medicine does not know it all.

I am not good at dealing with the modern media. I have not felt I have been as effective as I should be.

I beat Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 in one day.

I am quite certain in my heart of hearts that modern music and modern art is not a conspiracy, but is a form of truth and integrity for those who practise it honestly, decently and with all their being.

I am probably the biggest equity investor in the history of modern Russia.

I am the very model of a modern major general

I believe in gender equality and I love that I can represent strong modern-day women.

I believe in public funding of elections, absolutely. But this system iscurrently very antiquated and no longer applies to modern day politics.

I'd like to do a little bit of everything. I think the only thing I can't do is a British accent, so that's out. No Shakespeare for me. Unless it's like one of those modern-day remakes.

Ideal goals are a menace in themselves, as much in more modern philosophers as in Plato.

I'd live in a museum if I could. I used to spend hours and hours in the Museum of Modern Art.

I can think of no one more qualified to write about the modern South than Curtis Wilkie

I disagree with the idea that modern dancers are cold or unemotional.

I do find that Western medicine is more and more open to proving energetic concepts. Why not, because modern physics is 100 percent based on it.

I do find modern jazz quite tricky.

I do feel that in modern society that still is the best way to survive. Whatever it is, just keep doing something, because complete stillness or inactivity is more like death than death.

I do modern jazz and contemporary combined. I like to feel strong, flexible, and so there is stretching involved.

I don't have any of the modern stuff. I don't have e-mail. I don't have a computer!

I don't listen to much modern composition.

I don't know about timeless. I actually think most of what I do is completely modern, but universally modern. Who decides what timeless even means? Are the things that we consider timeless now going to, in fact, be considered timeless in 300 years? Probably not.

I don't like modern country music. It's not what I'm into, is all. I'm old-school.

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

I don't really like the bands that think they're still in 1982. It's boring. When retro sounds are combined with a modern approach, it can be great.

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 understand the notion that modern farming is anything do to with nature. It's a pretty gross interference with nature.

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

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 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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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