Modern Quotes

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.

The modern horror audience is wise to our tricks this lets it in on the gag.

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.