Modern Quotes
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In a modern loft, you can't just fill a space with furniture. Each piece has to be perfect.
Nate Berkus -
To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.
Oscar Wilde
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The goths are beautiful, a vast depth of subcultural, aesthetic and poetic ideas, and we would identify with that as we did back in 1979. But not the post modern distortion...the costume without the brain.
Peter Murphy Bauhaus -
I think there is a way to be formal and elegant and classy, but more modern. Brad Pitt has been changing it, and Will Smith has been doing it in his own way.
Steven Cojocaru -
The modern airplane creates a new geographic dimension ... the world is small, the world is one.
Wendell Willkie -
The printing press is the greatest weapon in the armoury of the modern commander.
T. E. Lawrence -
People can defame anyone they like, people can write anything they like. But non-accountability is a part of modern Indian culture.
Salman Khurshid -
I wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read.
Wally Lamb
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Modern life is organised so that you benefit at the expense of the other, and the most extreme example of that is a camp.
Imre Kertesz -
A modern health and social care system has to be completely focussed on the needs of its users.
Patricia Hewitt -
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 -
Modern dancing is old fashioned.
Samuel Goldwyn -
Our approach to economic development must be modern, focused and in tune with the global trend.
Ibrahim Babangida -
In Henry Adams, I discovered not only the prototype of the modern thinker but also someone who is more interesting: a viper-toothed, puling, supercilious crank, thwarted in ambition, aging gracelessly, mad at the cosmos, and ashamed of his own jejune ideals. He is nevertheless very dear to me.
P. J. O'Rourke
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I am not a modern man, I am just a wee old fashioned one.
Ian Hamilton Finlay -
The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is.
E. F. Schumacher -
And it is only fair to state, with regard to modern journalists, that they always apologise to one in private for what they have written against one in public.
Oscar Wilde -
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 -
Of the modern critics, although I disagree with almost everything she says, I admire Mary McCarthy's eloquence and social observation in 'Sights and Spectacles'; she thinks in print, but she doesn't have a real feel for the stage.
John Lahr -
IQ in general has improved since tests first began. Psychologists think that this is because modern life becomes ever more complicated.
A. N. Wilson
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More modern poetry is written than read.
P. J. O'Rourke -
A very intimate sense of the expressiveness of outward things, which ponders, listens, penetrates, where the earlier, less developed consciousness passed lightly by, is an important element in the general temper of our modern poetry.
Walter Pater -
One cannot spend one's time in being modern when there are so many more important things to be.
Wallace Stevens -
If somebody says 'singer-songwriter' to me, the first person I think of is James Taylor. There are plenty of modern singer-songwriters, but there is something about James Taylor that has always resonated with me.
Zachary Levi