Modern Quotes

Music is a continuum and the modern and avant-garde composers of today will be part of the standard repertoire 30 years from now.

Pollock said several times that he couldn't separate himself from his art. Not knowing much about modern art when I began to read about him, I was much more his persona - his struggles as a human being - that was interesting to me.

I love new writing, new blood, modern works by unknown writers.

The modern Little Red Riding Hood, reared on singing commercials, has no objection to being eaten by the wolf.

The challenge of work-life balance is without question one of the most significant struggles faced by modern man.

When I was 14 years old, I was a huge fan of the Velvets, the Stooges and the Modern Lovers. They are my three favourite bands. I never get sick of 'em.

Libertarians recognize the inevitable pluralism of the modern world and for that reason assert that individual liberty is at least part of the common good.

That business of relaxation, which is so terribly modern today, is all good and well, but my work interests me so much, and is so varied, that many times it seems relaxing when I go from one aspect to another.

The Treatise tries to analyze not only modern Western families, but also those in other cultures and the changes in family structure during the past several centuries.

I'm very classic and structural. I love clean lines and interesting, modern details. But I'm all about being streamlined - less is more.

If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell.

In sum, thought and reflection have been rendered thoroughly pointless by the circumstances in which modern men and women live and act.

Nowadays there is more dynamism in chess, modern players like to take the initiative. Usually they are poor defenders though.

You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself.

I came here as a practical man, to talk, not simply on the question of peace and war, but to treat another question which is of hardly less importance - the enormous and burdensome standing armaments which it is the practice of modern Governments to sustain in time of peace.

It is not uncommon in modern times to see governments straining every nerve to keep the peace, and the people whom they represent, with patriotic enthusiasm and resentment over real or fancied wrongs, urging them forward to war.

If we look to the history of other nations, ancient or modern, we find no example of a growth so rapid, so gigantic, of a people so prosperous and happy.

The pretended physical philosophy of modern days strips Man of all his moral attributes, or holds them of no account in the estimate of his origin and place in the created world.

I was serious about ballet for a long time, but my mom got me into tap and jazz and modern and hip-hop, and I was one of those over-lessoned children.

Nokia and Research in Motion needed a modern operating system. They could have bought Palm or Android before Google did, but they didn't. Today, it's probably too late, and at the time they would have been criticized for overpaying, but as they say - shift happens.

The two World Wars came in part, like much modern literature and art, because men, whose nature is to tire of everything in turn... tired of common sense and civilization.

People are proud of their tattoos. It's like a modern coat of arms.

I'm trying to make a case for those people who don't have a sense of belonging that they should have, that there is something really worthwhile in having a sense of belonging, and recasting and looking at our modern history.

The best thing about modern living is anaesthesia.

Our modern society - especially in the West, and especially now - reveres youth.

The modern mind tends to be more and more critical and analytical in spirit, hence it must devise for itself an engine of expression which is logically defensible at every point and which tends to correspond to the rigorous spirit of modern science.

The 2004 Election marks the first time in modern political history that Republican voter turnout matched Democratic turnout in a presidential election year.

We, in Prince Edward Island, are fully familiar with this modern phenomenon.

Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle. The modern industrial proletariat does not belong to the category of such classes.

I don't understand the notion that modern farming is anything do to with nature. It's a pretty gross interference with nature.