Modern Quotes
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I would like to do something modern and possibly funny.
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In a modern loft, you can't just fill a space with furniture. Each piece has to be perfect.
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To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.
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The printing press is the greatest weapon in the armoury of the modern commander.
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People can defame anyone they like, people can write anything they like. But non-accountability is a part of modern Indian culture.
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The modern airplane creates a new geographic dimension ... the world is small, the world is one.
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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.
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I wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read.
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A modern health and social care system has to be completely focussed on the needs of its users.
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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.
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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.
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The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is.
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Modern dancing is old fashioned.
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One cannot spend one's time in being modern when there are so many more important things to be.
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I am not a modern man, I am just a wee old fashioned one.
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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.
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Our approach to economic development must be modern, focused and in tune with the global trend.
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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.
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More modern poetry is written than read.
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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.
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IQ in general has improved since tests first began. Psychologists think that this is because modern life becomes ever more complicated.
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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.
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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.
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The United States is supplying the most modern and sophisticated weaponry to Israel to the tune of billions of dollars every year.
