Best 855 quotes in «modern quotes» category

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

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

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

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.

I do find modern jazz quite tricky.

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 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 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 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 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 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.

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

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 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 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.

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

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 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.

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

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

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 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 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 hate brandy...it stinks of modern literature.

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

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

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 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 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, Kusama, am the modern Alice in Wonderland.

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

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!