Modern Quotes

The attempt to redefine the family as a purely voluntary arrangement grows out of the modern delusion that people can keep all their options open all the time.

But some great records are are being made with today's technology and there are still great artists among us. Likewise there are artists today who are so reliant on modern technology, they wouldn't have emerged when recording was more organic.

That's why modern corporate movie making has become so laborious that comedians are kind of kicked out by 50.

Wherever modern translations of marked excellence were already in existence efforts were made to secure them for the Library, but in a number of instances copyright could not be obtained.

Investment banking has, in recent years, resembled a casino, and the massive scale of gambling losses has dragged down traditional business and retail lending activities as banks try to rebuild their balance sheets. This was one aspect of modern financial liberalisation that had dire consequences.

The critical method which denies literary modernity would appear - and even, in certain respects, would be - the most modern of critical movements.

Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.

Style is the most valuable asset of the modern artist. That's probably why so many styles are reported lost or stolen each year.

And as far as the Disney Concert hall is concerned, it is a wonderful modern structure and I am extremely honored that I had this opportunity to have a concert here.

The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less.

Digital video is so beautiful. It's lightweight, modern, and it's only getting better. It's put film into the La Brea Tar Pits.

I now resolved to go to bed early, with a firm purpose of also rising early the next day to revisit this charming walk; for I thought to myself, I have now seen this temple of the modern world imperfectly; I have seen it only by moonlight.

In brief, egoism in its modern interpretation, is the antithesis, not of altruism, but of idealism.

Well, opera began with an intent to resuscitate Greek drama, that is, modern opera as we know it.

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.

In point of substantial merit the law school belongs in the modern university no more than a school of fencing or dancing.

The modern meaning of life's end-when does it end? How does it end? How should it end? What is the value of life? How do we measure it?

To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts.

From blood banking to the modern subway, from jazz to social justice, the contributions of African Americans have shaped and molded and influenced our national culture and our national character.

Modern man is frantically trying to earn enough to buy things he's too busy to enjoy.

Yet for my part, deeply as I am moved by the religious architecture of the Middle Ages, I cannot honestly say that I ever felt the slightest emotion in any modern Gothic church.

You've got to respond to that and of course thinking through the role of a left party in the modern world, in the modern economy and society and having a policy response to that.

Spiritual space is lost in gaining convenience. I saw the need to create a mixture of Japanese spiritual culture and modern western architecture.

It may be said that modern Europe with teachers who inform it that its realist instincts are beautiful, acts ill and honors what is ill.

When modern writers gave up telling stories, they gave up the greatest thing we had.

The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.

After closely examining my conscience, I venture to state that in my historical novels I intended the content to be just as modern and up-to-date as in the contemporary ones.

A modern fleet of ships does not so much make use of the sea as exploit a highway.

I should like to say that I am as proud of my Chinese heritage and background as I am devoted to modern science, a part of human civilization of Western origin, to which I have dedicated and I shall continue to dedicate my work.

The role of a museum of modern art is to make a good selection and identify what we believe to be the coming movements, and that requires taste.