Words matter. These are the best Modern Quotes from famous people such as Jessica Lange, Barry Commoner, Rashid al-Ghannushi, Harold Rosenberg, L’Wren Scott, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
It was easier to do Shakespeare than a lot of modern movie scripts that are so poorly written.
The modern assault on the environment began about 50 years ago, during and immediately after World War II.
In our modern age – in the age of free information – I don’t think there is any place for dictatorships.
American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.
The modern woman has a modern life, and most of us work. There’s no time to change before we go out in the evening, so a dress should always look appropriate for day and night.
Mind you, the Elizabethans had so many words for the female genitals that it is quite hard to speak a sentence of modern English without inadvertently mentioning at least three of them.
Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.
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.
The nearest the modern general or admiral comes to a small-arms encounter of any sort is at a duck hunt in the company of corporation executives at the retreat of Continental Motors, Inc.
Lest those islands still seem to you too remote in space and time to be relevant to our modern societies, just think about the risks… of our increasing globalization and increasing worldwide economic interdependence.
Nobody in America, in the modern generation, has read their mythology or legends.
Our galaxy, the Milky Way, is one of 50 or 100 billion other galaxies in the universe. And with every step, every window that modern astrophysics has opened to our mind, the person who wants to feel like they’re the center of everything ends up shrinking.
If we steal thoughts from the moderns, it will be cried down as plagiarism; if from the ancients, it will be cried up as erudition.
It would be flattering to call it a modern Dirty Harry, but I think this film deals more with the loss of his wife than the traditional revenge vigilante films.
Don’t bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.
Mass adoption of renewable energies would thus necessitate a fundamental reshaping of modern energy infrastructures.
More and more, modern warfare will be about people sitting in bunkers in front of computer screens, whether remotely piloted aircraft or cyber weapons.
It is baffling, I must say, that in our modern world we have such blind trust in science and technology that we all accept what science tells us about everything – until, that is, it comes to climate science.
The modern composer builds upon the foundation of truth.
To regard all things and principles of things as inconstant modes or fashions has more and more become the tendency of modern thought.
Just remember: if ever you feel weighed down by the bureaucracy and often mundanity of modern life, don’t fight the frustration. Let it be the catalyst for whimsy.
A fact of modern life is that it takes women longer to get ready than men.
The marriage of computing and connectivity without the shackles of being tethered to a location is one of the biggest disruptive forces of modern times.
I make no apologies in admitting that I take very seriously the dehumanizing dangers in our tendency in modern science to make man over into the image of the machine, into the image of the techniques by which we study him.
I oftentimes say that I design my collections off my phone. I’m in a group chat with my team in Milan. I copy and paste. I draw. I look at trends. I don’t really have an assistant. It’s a modern way of working. I don’t know if it’s sustainable, but it’s how I do it.
It does not seem that the contradiction which exists between the aristocratic function of art and the democratic structure of modern society can ever be resolved.
When I was a teenager, I worked in New Orleans for a chef named Paul Prudhomme. That was a very important time in my life as a chef. I developed my palate and learned a lot. And here I am now. I specialize in modern Mexican and contemporary Latin cuisines.
One cannot spend one’s time in being modern when there are so many more important things to be.
In sum, thought and reflection have been rendered thoroughly pointless by the circumstances in which modern men and women live and act.
While I’ve had a great distaste for what’s usually called song in modern poetry or for what’s usually called music, I really don’t think of speech as so far from song.
Music is a gut thing. You’re working in a medium which is more in touch with the primal than the modern. A gig is a ritual. There’s a congregation.
I see myself as a true modernist. Even when I do a traditional gown, I give it a modern twist. I go to the past for research. I need to know what came before so I can break the rules.
If I can’t be fishing or hunting, I want to be in the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
I love new writing, new blood, modern works by unknown writers.
Most modern comedy is crap.
As a young boy, scouting gave me a confidence and camaraderie that is hard to find in modern life.
When modern physics exerts itself to establish the world’s formula, what occurs thereby is this: the being of entities has resolved itself into the method of the totally calculable.
In the modern world, there’s a real genuine fear of loss of individuality, and I think the undead speak to that. I also think the idea of the dead coming back to life, and this unstoppable foe that just keeps coming and coming but rather slowly just chases you, is a real primal fear.
I have very strong feelings about what modern fame means, and the toxicity of it.
Modern buildings of our time are so huge that one must group them. Often the space between these buildings is as important as the buildings themselves.
A modern hero is very ambiguous. I went through some very rough times in Czechoslovakia – the occupation by the Germans at the end of the war. We had people going against their tanks with brooms. Are they nuts, or are they heroes?
Most of modern rock and roll is a product of guilt.
People on death row, the treatment of animals, women’s right to choose. So much in America is based on religious fundamentalist Christianity. Grow up! This is the modern world!
The argument of the broken window pane is the most valuable argument in modern politics.
I see the first ‘Bourne’ movie as really kind of a fulcrum in changing the modern action film, where things are really gritty and really character-driven. Think about how the entire Bond franchise was completely radicalized by Bourne.
I like to have Chinese furniture in my home as a constant and painful reminder of how much has been destroyed in China. The contrast between the beauty of the past and the ugliness of the modern is nowhere sharper than in China.
What feats of ingenuity have we not been forced to perform, at times, in order to meet our customers’ wishes? Those only who have had charge of a large, modern kitchen can tell the tale.
I grew up in the ’90s. My goal isn’t to be a ’90s rapper, but I have little hints of ’90s influence in my music. It’s a modern approach to classic rap.
Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales.
Some people say Hawaii is spoiled, but I don’t think so. It’s modern. It’s a part of today’s world.
We all know that looks matter, and modern politicians have always assumed that their battles are decided on both substance and image.
The only book by a modern president that bears serious comparison with Obama’s ‘Dreams From My Father’ is Jimmy Carter’s short campaign autobiography, ‘Why Not the Best?,’ published in 1975.
Modern cars I don’t like so much.
The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.
Modern audiences are so intelligent. They work at such a fast pace that if you don’t give enough stimulus at a breakneck speed, they will become disinterested.
The modern artist… is working and expressing an inner world – in other words – expressing the energy, the motion, and other inner forces.
I wear modern… vintage.
There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.
I love a modern suit paired with a polo or cotton T-shirt… and then paired with leather sneakers, or cashmere joggers with a tailored blazer and a sleeveless puffer vest to get the ultimate informal and formal combination.
In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.
Originalism says that when you consult the text, you give it the meaning it had when it was adopted, not some later modern meaning.
I am not going to claim that modern anarchism has any direct relation to Roman jurisprudence; but I do claim that it has its basis in the laws of nature rather than in the state of nature.
