Modern Quotes

My image lends itself a little bit more to the modern fan, sometimes more toward the kids, and I guess more toward the wine drinkers... I mean, I have my own wine, and fans love to pull for people they relate to.

The progress of the natural sciences in modern times has of course so much exceeded all expectations that any suggestion that there may be some limits to it is bound to arouse suspicion.

But I don't think there has ever been anything written on the nature of violent man as deep and as thorough as Shakespeare's Titus. I think it puts all modern movies and modern exploitations of violence to shame.

Rome has not seen a modern building in more than half a century. It is a city frozen in time.

In its most limited sense, modern, art would seem to concern itself only with the technical innovations of the period.

Over the past 20 years, I have noticed that the most flexible, dynamic, inquisitive minds among my students have been industrial design majors. Industrial designers are bracingly free of ideology and cant. The industrial designer is trained to be a clear-eyed observer of the commercial world - which, like it or not, is modern reality.

A lot of more modern films seem to just be out for violence or sex or what have you, without relating it to what's going within human beings. But every now and then one comes along that does that, and it's a joy.

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.

American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.

With the Stray Cats at least, we really took the music somewhere else. First, we wrote our own songs. That's a real weak point in modern classics if you do rockabilly or blues.

There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.

What we must understand is that the industries, processes, and inventions created by modern science can be used either to subjugate or liberate. The choice is up to us.

Well, it's a badge of honour for any self-respecting poet to be criticized by Auberon Waugh. But in a lot of ways my poems are very conventional, and it's no big deal for me to write a poem in either free verse or strict form; modern poets can, and do, do both.

Modern people are only willing to believe in their computers, while I believe in myself.

I much prefer the modern world.

The dilemma of modern medicine, and the underlying central flaw in medical education and, most of all, in the training of interns, is the irresistible drive to do something, anything. It is expected by patients and too often agreed to by their doctors, in the face of ignorance.

Music is neither old nor modern: it is either good or bad music, and the date at which it was written has no significance whatever.

Civilization is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences.

I would have to challenge the term, modern dance. I don't really use that term in relation to my work. I simply think of it as dancing. I think of it as moving.

A modern health and social care system has to be completely focussed on the needs of its users.

Fathers in today's modern families can be so many things.

I don't cook - I can cook - but I'm not very good. I like being asked over for dinner, because she can't cook either. We would starve if it weren't for modern technology. I know how to work a microwave, but love home cooked meals.

Some of modern engineering is necessary to good art. But I think of myself is a cultural artist.

The disease of mutual distrust among nations is the bane of modern civilization.

The Romans used every housing form known today and they have a remarkably modern look.

The modern minds in each generation are the critics who preserve us from a petrifying world, who will not leave us to walk undisturbed in the ways of our fathers.

My look is a Modern Bohemian type thing.

Not all Modern Orthodox Jews, at the present juncture, identify with what the Israeli government does. In Israel many religious Zionists strongly oppose the government because of the disengagement.

Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.

A small child from a developing country has the advantage, from a very early age, of having access to toys which structure his mind, which constitute a sure advantage over the little African child who has never even held a modern toy.