Modern Life Quotes - Page 5

When I go, I'll take New Year's Eve with me.

I do not much care for nature, and believe that flowers belong in vases rather than loose and untidy on the ground.

A great curse has fallen upon modern life with the discovery of the vastness of the word Education.

Modern life is confusing no "Ms take" about it.

The problem of living in this modern world is the problem of finding room in it. The crowd principle is so universally at work through modern life that the geography of the world had been changed to conform to it. We live in crowds. We get our living in crowds. We are amused in herds.

Early to bed and early to rise, and you'll meet very few of the best people.

A man never feels more important than when he receives a telegram containing more than ten words.

In my life I've easily lost 500 pounds but for some reason they keep finding me.

Why take pride in cooking, when they don't take pride in eating?

I think because the show ["Grant MacLaren"] is essentially a hopeful show. The show says that as bleak as the future is, the one thing that mankind developed was the ability to send their consciousness back and where a lot of the institutions of modern life have fallen apart.

The subject [of Los Angeles] became a general metaphor for anxiety and the speed of modern life.

We should sell them to our worst enemies, the Russians and the Cubans.

I grew up on Nickelodeon.On All That and Are You Afraid of the Dark, and Salute Your Shorts and Rocco's Modern Life and all that. That was my generation.

I needed to slow down and quiet down deeply into a lot of these questions, yet at the same time what I was looking for, and continue to, is a way to have this exist within a regular, normal, modern life.

Young men still desire women as much as ever, even though they don't want to marry them as much.

We finally got Nebraska where we want them...off the schedule.

Modern life has gotten so strange, we all get 150 emails and text messages a day, and it's hard when things are moving that quickly to keep that sense of wonder about being alive.

All our troubles come from not being able to be alone.

Modern life cannot be constructed on . . . physically strenuous principles. A great deal of work is sedentary, and most manual work exercises only a few specialized muscles.

To be honest, I tend to romanticize the past, and though I appreciate all the conveniences of modern life, sometimes I yearn for simpler times.

Modern life would not be possible if it were not for chemicals, nor would modern natural gas production.

In my experience, the more people have, the less likely they are to be contented. Indeed, there is abundant evidence that depression is a 'disease of affluence', a disorder of modern life in the industrialized world.