Modern Quotes
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The modern era of continuity planning began under President Ronald Reagan.
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To be really mediæval one should have no body. To be really modern one should have no soul. To be really Greek one should have no clothes.
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Music is a gut thing. You're working in a medium which is more in touch with the primal than the modern. A gig is a ritual. There's a congregation.
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Galileo - the father of modern physics - indeed of modern science.
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Individualism has really the higher aim. Modern morality consists in accepting the standard of one's age.
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Private information is practically the source of every large modern fortune.
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Sociology was born of the modern ardor to improve society.
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Modern pictures are, no doubt, delightful to look at. At least, some of them are. But they are quite impossible to live with; they are too clever, too assertive, too intellectual. Their meaning is too obvious, and their method too clearly defined.
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I do not believe in race as such. Race is a fraud. All modern people are the conglomeration of so many ethnic mixtures that no pure race remains.
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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!
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Ideas in modern Russia are machine-cut blocks coming in solid colors; the nuance is outlawed, the interval walled up, the curve grossly stepped.
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The social network is the paradigm of the modern service application.
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Even modern medical researchers have come to the conclusion that peace of mind is vital for good health.
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As ever with modern Britain, we are let down by a vast, over-manned, over-funded, hidebound, obstructive, box-ticking and incompetent bureaucracy.
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As far as art's concerned, I probably like modern art more than traditional art.
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That's why modern corporate movie making has become so laborious that comedians are kind of kicked out by 50.
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Every age thinks it's the modern age, but this one really is. Electricity is going to change everything. Everything!
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Formerly we used to canonize our heroes. The modern method is to vulgarize them. Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable.
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If you want to go anywhere in modern war, in the air, on the sea, on the land, you must have command of the air.
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Bad Religion has never been about criticizing people who are Christian. But we've always been about pointing out the irony and contradictions in Christian theology and the more extreme versions of Christians that seek to challenge modern secularism.
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What we do in life is determined by how we communicate to ourselves. In the modern world, the quality of life is the quality of communication.
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People need to understand the basics of evolution if they are going to reject it—otherwise, they are not contributing anything productive to modern society.
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The Toothbrush mustache was first introduced in Germany by Americans, who turned up with it at the end of the 19th century the way Americans would turn up with ducktails in the 1950s. It was a bit of modern efficiency, an answer to the ornate mustaches of Europe - pop effluvia that fell into the grip of a bad, bad man.
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Not much was really invented during the Renaissance, if you don't count modern civilization.
