Raymond Queneau Quotes
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The system of idolatry, invented by modern christianity, far surpasses in absurdity anything that we have ever heard of.
Orson Pratt -
The rivalry between the Montague and the Capulet kids seems very modern to me. Juliet is a free spirit, full of untapped love and passion. I think a lot of girls can relate to her. And it's very relevant in terms of kids defying their parents.
Hailee Steinfeld -
Science fiction writers missed the most salient feature of our modern era: the Internet.
Jack McDevitt -
Our approach to economic development must be modern, focused and in tune with the global trend.
Ibrahim Babangida -
I also read modern novels - I have just had to read 60 as I am one of the judges for the Orange Fiction Prize.
Kate Adie -
One cannot spend one's time in being modern when there are so many more important things to be.
Wallace Stevens
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I'm going to start these art museums that are basically converted homes, and I have one for modern art, and I have one for 19th century European art, and one for French impressionism. I've got Japanese.
Larry Ellison -
Modern society has evolved to the point where we counter the old-fashioned fatalism surrounding the word 'cancer' by embracing the idea of the Uber-mind - that our will possesses nearly supernatural powers.
Abraham Verghese -
I need to make things mine. It annoys me to buy something that is imposed on me. When I have a suit made, I go to the Sicilian tailor Alessandro Martorana in Turin. I like shorter jacket sleeves and often fold the cuffs up. It's more modern that way.
Lapo Elkann -
To regard all things and principles of things as inconstant modes or fashions has more and more become the tendency of modern thought.
Walter Pater -
'Reinventing the Bazaar,' by John McMillan, is a great and fun introduction to the wild variety and importance of markets throughout history and around the world. I finally understood how a Middle Eastern souk actually works economically and how to compare that to modern-day telecom-spectrum auctions. I love that book.
Adam Davidson -
Modern morality is all about perception.
Rachel Cusk
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When the modern movement began, starting perhaps with the paintings of Manet and the poetry of Baudelaire and Rimbaud, what distinguished the modern movement was the enormous honesty that writers, painters and playwrights displayed about themselves. The bourgeois novel flinches from such notions.
J. G. Ballard -
In Australia I was seen as somebody who did only very modern, contemporary stuff. Then as soon as I went overseas I did two period pieces so it was like, 'When are you going to get out of the corsets?' And I was thinking I just got into them!
Frances O'Connor -
The modern airplane creates a new geographic dimension ... the world is small, the world is one.
Wendell Willkie -
with a mental equipment which allows me to tell the difference between hot and cold, I stand out in this community like a modern day Cicero. Dropped into any other city of the world, I'd rate as a possibly adequate night watchman.
Anita Loos -
Having been issued the false prospectus of happiness through unlimited sex, modern man concludes, when he is not happy with his life, that his sex has not been unlimited enough. If welfare does not eliminate squalor, we need more welfare; if sex does not bring happiness, we need more sex.
Anthony Daniels -
Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern; one is apt to grow old fashioned quite suddenly.
Oscar Wilde
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The applause of silence. is the only kind that counts.
Alfred Jarry -
Was ever poet so trusted before?
Samuel Johnson -
If we conducted ourselves as sensibly in good times as we do in hard times, we could all acquire a competence.
William Feather -
I'd hate to be too grown-up. That would be dull.
Keren Woodward Bananarama -
The biological agents we believe Iraq can produce include anthrax, botulinum, toxin, aflatoxin and ricin. All eventually result in excruciatingly painful death.
Tony Blair -
The most heartbreakingly poignant modern love story ever written.
Raymond Queneau