Modern Quotes

Modern Carpet Designs may provide endless entertainment for your guests.

With the world's human population now at seven billion and growing, and the demand for technology and modern conveniences increasing, we can't control all our negative impacts. But we have to find better ways to live within the limits nature and its cycles impose.

Can you, in a million years, imagine another female senator - Kay Bailey Hutchinson, Claire McCaskill - reacting to being called 'ma'am' like Barbara Boxer did? This is the kind of sanctimonious self-absorption on the modern left that makes my teeth itch.

Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.

The best, most successful managers in the modern era are those who can keep a player happy even if he is not in the team. Given the size of the squads and the use of rotation nowadays, that's tougher than it's ever been.

As thy days, so shall thy strength be which, in modern language, may be translated as thy thoughts so shall thy life be.

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.

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.