Top 60 Modern-Day Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Modern-Day Quotes from famous people such as Kim Harrison, Y. G. Mahendran, Alex Berenson, Jack Huston, Michael McCaul, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

'Dead Witch Walking' is basically a modern-day witch li

‘Dead Witch Walking’ is basically a modern-day witch living in Cincinnati.
Kim Harrison
My mother made me listen to Carnatic music saying that only then I will be able to appreciate any good music. But what this has also done for me is that I’m unable to accept modern-day cinema songs.
Y. G. Mahendran
Enron Field in Houston, the Trans World Dome in St. Louis and PSINet Stadium in Baltimore are just three of the modern-day coliseums named for companies that have found new homes in bankruptcy court.
Alex Berenson
I think I’ve become the go-to mustache man. It works in period pieces. Modern-day mustaches are probably creepy. But I get compliments – everyone’s like, ‘Wow, love the ‘stache, dude.’
Jack Huston
That’s what really concerns me about the modern-day terrorists that we face is this global expansion.
Michael McCaul
The Edmund Pettus Bridge – which in 2013 was declared a National Historic Landmark – isn’t symbolic of the Civil War in a meaningful way. It is, however, the modern-day battlefield where the voting rights movement was born.
Douglas Brinkley
I stick closely to the structure of the myths. I may have some fun with the mythology by changing the environment to modern-day, but the structure of the myths, the monsters, the relationships of the gods – none of that is made up.
Rick Riordan
I did a film called ‘Days and Nights,’ which is a modern-day retelling of and inspired by Chekhov’s ‘The Seagull.’
Juliet Rylance
Superman’s original name was Kal-El, or Swift God. His father’s name was Jor-El. Superman was clearly drawn as a modern-day god.
Bruce Feiler
You set something in modern-day Texas, which is so identifiable as the Old West, and everyone’s wearing guns, so it looks like it’s going to be, by default, partially considered a western.
Taylor Sheridan
I don’t really have a writing process. I don’t write at all but, honestly, I feel like it’s a modern-day writing because everything is technology and if I go in there and freestyle and I keep it, I feel like I wrote that. If I go in there and fix it, it’s almost like something I wrote.
Lil Baby
A western audience might not appreciate ‘Chanakya’s Chant’ because of its dependence on history and ancient statecraft. My book is a modern-day thriller that draws on a bedrock of history. My primary object is to entertain, not educate.
Ashwin Sanghi
Modern-day cinema takes the form of a sermon. You don’t get to think, you only get to receive information.
Gus Van Sant
‘Reinventing the Bazaar,’ by John McMillan, is a great and fun introduction to the wild variety and importance of markets throughout history and around the world. I finally understood how a Middle Eastern souk actually works economically and how to compare that to modern-day telecom-spectrum auctions. I love that book.
Adam Davidson
Wouldn’t it be great if you could put all the published works online? The Internet Archive is trying to become useful as a modern-day digital library.
Brewster Kahle
I’m interested in people. I’m curious about people, and of course we’re curious about people whose work we respond to. So I’m not saying that I don’t understand fascination with other people. But as it’s dealt with in this American, modern-day culture, I find it not just boring but actually sort of destructive, really.
Gaby Hoffmann
I think, in a lot of ways, hip-hop is interesting to me because it’s like the modern-day folk music.
Mat Kearney
I mean, I think all teachers are basically modern-day heroes.
Jonathan Bailey
Tens of millions of Americans are modern-day slaves – unable to retire early, or working in jobs they don’t really want, just for the health insurance they need to take care of themselves, a spouse, or a child with a ‘preexisting condition.’
Paul Zane Pilzer
I find as much inspiration from the forerunners of jazz as I do the modern-day innovators of jazz.
John Scofield
As a modern-day role model, I’d have to go for Tiger Woods. I’m also a massive Sachin Tendulkar fan.
Mark Lawrenson
I’m a modern-day hippie.
Raheem DeVaughn
I’d love to do a modern-day musical that’s full of original music. To get your contemporaries to sing and dance without looking foolish and for it to be transformational and magical and all those things a musical is supposed to be.
Danny Boyle
If I’m writing about a modern-day suburb, there’s going to be details of the home and furniture, and if I’m writing about a historical period, those details, those pieces of the world are going to be there as well, but they’ll be simplified, because I’m cartooning it.
Gene Luen Yang
When I explain to people what was the situation in North Korea, they think, how can such a country exist? They know North Korea is bad in some vague way, not clearly. But when we explain it, they then wonder how can a whole country be modern-day slaves?
Lee Hyeon-seo
While they trace their history back to wars that helped to ethnically cleanse Native Americans and to their exploits in the Civil War fighting for the South, the modern-day Rangers were created to help rejuvenate a defeated and demoralized U.S. imperialism after the war in Vietnam.
Brendan Sexton III
Auntie Anne’s is a modern-day business miracle that never should have happened.
Anne F. Beiler
Social media provides the modern-day version of mystery shopping and walking the halls.
Clara Shih
There is a lot of interest in the arts, music, theatre, filmmaking, engineering, architecture and software design. I think we have now transitioned the modern-day version of the entrepreneur into the creative economy.
John Baldacci
For me, I think ‘Jem’ fans were expecting a remake of the cartoon, and the movie really is inspired by the cartoon based in a 2015, modern-day setting. It is going to be very different, but it’s also going to be very familiar as well.
Hayley Kiyoko
The reason there’s no modern-day Shakespeare is because he didn’t have anything to do except sit in a room with a candle and think.
Chris Cornell
'Goldenheart' is like a modern-day Joan of Arc. Think o

‘Goldenheart’ is like a modern-day Joan of Arc. Think of it like medieval times-cum-2045 or Lancelot and Guinevere in 3025. It’s a new version of these battles – age-old stories for the now.
Dawn Richard
Most of my Muslim friends are politically liberal in a lot of senses. They are far more open-minded than the Christian circles I grew up in, which are, you know, actually scarier. That said, too, I still identify with the teachings of Jesus. I don’t think they resemble or relate to modern-day Christianity.
Craig Thompson
I think one of the bigger issues with modern-day people is that we don’t give enough credit to people from history as being real. We almost treat them as these rarified beings that didn’t exist the way that we do with emotions and urges and drives.
Jeff Baena
It’s really fun to think about what it would be like to see Walter Davidson step onto a modern-day motorcycle. He’d probably go insane! But motorcycles were such a part of him.
Michiel Huisman
Many of us endure pain in the service of beauty every single day. We rip off our hair with hot wax, jam our soft skin into modern-day corsets, and burn our scalps with dyes.
Rachel Simmons
The most common thing over the years is, ‘What’s it like to work with David Lynch?’ That’s absolutely the fascination, whether it’s people that are in the industry or it’s just diehard fans. Because he’s our modern-day master. We’re lucky enough to be alive at the time that an absolute master and genius is working.
Madchen Amick
Istanbul in the snow is a wonder. The extravagant pleasures on show in the Topkapi Palace Museum – the sultan’s robes thickly lined with squirrel fur, mobile foot-braziers to keep out a cold that whips relentlessly off the Bosphorus – presage modern-day sultanic delights.
Bettany Hughes
A modern-day Dickens with a popular voice and a genius for storytelling in any genre, Stephen King has written many wonderful books.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
I accept that there are multitudes seeking God, seeking meaning, and so on, but if they reject atheism, I would rather they became modern-day Catholics or Jews than that they became Muslims.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
I think the modern-day wide receiver, I would say that his skill level is not appreciated. It’s not just about the numbers. It’s the ability to catch the football and put your talent on display.
Cris Carter
I think a lot of times, in a lot of modern-day movies, a lot of things are CGI, but so much of the stuff in ‘Star Wars’ is built and created by these artists.
Kelly Marie Tran
What ‘Strong Island’ does is bring a historical perspective and help people understand that what we’re treating as a modern-day phenomenon is actually not modern. It’s actually quite old.
Yance Ford
That’s something lacking in a lot of modern-day families – just talking. It’s almost a lost art form.
Ryan Kwanten
I’m happy for the modern-day player who signs his contract and makes lots of money. The players of my era helped make that possible.
Eusebio
I in no way, shape, or form envision myself as the modern-day Ozzy Osbourne – nobody can.
David Draiman
In the modern-day world, where time is premium and battle for subsistence is unimaginably tough, the hapless common man simply gives in and pays the bribe just to get on with life.
Shaffi Mather
As a pure source of reference, ‘Modernist Cuisine’ is incredibly helpful. It’s like a modern-day encyclopedia, except for a single subject. It’s not always the answer, but it’s always a starting point. I feel honored to have been able to contribute to it.
Wylie Dufresne
Bonnie and Clyde were almost like a modern-day Robin Hood, stealing ‘the government’s money.’ I think that’s a bit of why they were glorified.
Lane Garrison
In 2009, at the Vancouver Peace Summit, I met a supporter of Free the Slaves, an NGO dedicated to eradicating modern-day slavery; weeks later, I flew down to Los Angeles and met with the director of Free the Slaves; thus began my journey into exploring modern-day slavery.
Lisa Kristine