Modern Quotes

• My rule is always if you keep your basics classic. You can add seasonable and very trendy stuff and always look modern and updated, but if you're questioning something and its expensive, err on the side of classic.

  

  Melissa Rivers
  • Looks
  • Classic
  • Expensive

• Modern capitalist nations are the fruit of a history of slavery, genocide, violence and exploitation every bit as abhorrent as Mao's China or Stalin's Soviet Union.

  

  Terry Eagleton
  • Violence
  • Slavery
  • Soviet

• In Turkey religion not only affects society but is affected by it, which is why Turkish Islam differs from Arab Islam. It's a more modern, more rational, more self-confident society.

  

  Andrew Mango
  • Society
  • Modern
  • Islam

• Modern reality has got such a hold on us that... when we attempt to reconstruct the ancient days in our thoughts...the minor events of our lives tear us away from our meditations, and... thrust us back into our personal [problems]

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Reality
  • Problem
  • Tears

• The resolution of revolutions is selection by conflict within the scientific community of the fittest way to practice future science. The net result of a sequence of such revolutionary selections, separated by periods of normal research, is the wonderfully adapted set of instruments we call modern scientific knowledge.

  

  Thomas Kuhn
  • Science
  • Knowledge
  • Community

• The rules of parenting have changed. By the modern definition, we were a generation of neglected children.

  

  Richard Linklater
  • Children
  • Generations
  • Definitions

• There's so many modern films where the fans take one side or the other. I'm hoping this isn't going to be like that; I'm hoping it isn't that kind of film at all. What I would love for the audience to take from it is to understand why she was so stuck in the middle and confused.

  

  Saoirse Ronan
  • Kind
  • Film
  • Audience

• Cloud-flying requires practice, even if you have every modern instrument, and unless you keep calm and collected you will get into trouble after you have been inside a really thick one for a few minutes. In the very early days of aviation, 1912 to be correct, I emerged from a cloud upside down, much to my discomfort, as I didn't know how to get right way up again. I found out somehow, or I wouldn't be writing this.

  

  Charles Rumney Samson
  • Writing
  • Trouble
  • Flying

• Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.

  

  William James
  • Believe
  • Men
  • Needs

• It's nice for me to have a ballet as a kind of platform for creativity, because unlike modern dance or contemporary dance or downtown dance, ballet is formalized, and there's something orthodox about it that I like. I like that there's less emphasis on subversion and innovation. I actually think that my musical vernacular or my musical voice is also less inclined toward innovation and subversion. I think I'm a traditionalist.

  

  Sufjan Stevens
  • Kind
  • Creativity
  • Innovation

• The French fried potato has become an inescapable horror in almost every public eating place in the country. 'French fries', say the menus, but they are not French fries any longer. They are a furry-textured substance with the taste of plastic wood.

  

  Russell Baker
  • World
  • Country
  • Food

• It is true that race is a social fiction, a myth perpetuated by a variety of peoples throughout the modern period, especially, to further their own gains at the expense of others.

  

  Michael Eric Dyson
  • Modern
  • Myth
  • Variety

• One of the gifts of the Jewish culture to Christianity is that it has taught Christians to think like Jews, and any modern man who has not learned to think as though he were a Jew can hardly be said to have learned to think at all.

  

  William E. Rees
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • Culture

• The Muse is mute when public men Applaud a modern throne.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Men
  • Politics
  • Muse

• The great thing about university is that they incline you to get up and do it, from the Classics to modern plays, to the humor that Monty Pythons made popular.

  

  Michael York
  • Humor
  • University
  • Monty

• A $10 million windfall? At today's prices, I'd feel almost as rich as I did one day in 1936 when I found a dime on the sidewalk and blew the whole wad on 20 Mary Jane candy bars, a box of jujubes, and a double feature.

  

  Russell Baker
  • Today
  • Rich
  • Candy

• Crucial to understanding federalism in modern day America is the concept of mobility, or 'the ability to vote with your feet.' If you don't support the death penalty and citizens packing a pistol - don't come to Texas. If you don't like medicinal marijuana and gay marriage, don't move to California.

  

  Rick Perry
  • Support
  • Moving
  • Understanding

• It is the child's understanding that teaches the adults the way of the future. They're still doing it today with modern technology.

  

  Michael Morpurgo
  • Children
  • Today
  • Technology

• The modern reader (or viewer, or listener: let's include everybody) is perilously overloaded. His attention is, to use the latest lingo,'targeted' by powerful forces? Our consciousness is a staging area, a field of operations for all kinds of enterprises, which make free use of it.

  

  Saul Bellow
  • Attention
  • Kind
  • Powerful

• The so-called modern education, with all its defects, however, does others so much more good than it does the Negro, because it has been worked out in conformity to the needs of those who have enslaved and oppressed weaker peoples.

  

  Carter G. Woodson
  • Diversity
  • Conformity
  • Oppressed

• Lou Reed is the most important definitive writer in modern rock. Not because of the stuff that he does, but the direction that he will take it.

  

  David Bowie
  • Important
  • Doe
  • Modern

• Modern war and modern civilisation are utterly incompatible...one or the other must go.

  

  Vera Brittain
  • War
  • Modern
  • Civilisation

• Here's the tragedy of the modern record business: It's radio. If you're not on radio, nobody really is going to hear you or see you or care about you.

  

  Shirley Ann Manson Angelfish
  • Care
  • Tragedy
  • Radio

• The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.

  

  Paul Gauguin
  • Art
  • Artist
  • Audience

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