Modern Quotes

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

The modern economy isn't about the redistribution of wealth, it's about the redistribution of time.

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.

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.

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.

The great watershed of modern poetry is French, more than English.

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.