Modern Life Quotes - Page 2

If the shoe fits you're lucky.

I have learned some things. Modern life is warfare without end: take no prisoners, leave no wounded, eat the dead--that's environmentally sound.

When a lot of remedies are suggested for a disease, that means it can't be cured.

I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvelous to us. The commonest thing is delightful if only one hides it.

The trouble with the lost generation is that it didn't get lost enough.

To be, in a word, unborable.... It is the key to modern life. If you are immune to boredom, there is literally nothing you cannot accomplish

As a young boy, scouting gave me a confidence and camaraderie that is hard to find in modern life.

I had never considered marriage, but I had an open mind, and I was to learn after a brief try at it that most open minds should be closed for repairs.

Abstract art is uniquely modern. It is a fundamentally romantic response to modern life - rebellious, individualistic, unconventional, sensitive, irritable.

Modern life is moving faster than the speed of thought, or thoughtfulness.

I don't care if my lettuce has DDT on it, just as long as it's crisp.

Only uncomfortable chairs become antiques - the comfortable ones are worn out by hard use.

Sin is the only real colour element left in modern life.

When you are too old to play golf, you had better die.

Civilization is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences.

It's like the little rat in the Skinner box who says, "I've got this psychologist under my control. Every time I press the bar, he gives me a food pellet."

Modern life is so thin and shallow and fake. I look forward to when developers go bankrupt, Japan gets poorer and wild grasses take over.

That's part of the requirement for me to be an artist is that you're trying to share your personal existence with others and trying to illuminate modern life, trying to understand life.

I wonder why you can always read a doctor's bill and you can never read his prescription.

The problem with making an extrinsic reward the only destination that matters is that some people will choose the quickest route there, even if it means taking the low road. Indeed, most of the scandals and misbehavior that have seemed endemic to modern life involve shortcuts.

I am constantly amazed when I talk to young people to learn how much they know about sex and how little about soap.

... modern life is no longer thinkable without photography.

If I had it [life] to do all over again, I'd have been a plumber.

As worship begins in holy expectancy, it ends in holy obedience. Holy obedience saves worship from becoming an opiate, an escape from the pressing needs of modern life.

Much of modern life is preventable chronic stress injury.