Modern Quotes - Page 10

Modern science kills God and takes his place on the vacant throne. Science is the sole legitimate arbiter of all relavent truth.

Most modern fantasy just rearranges the furniture in Tolkien's attic.

The ethical life... is maintained in being by a common culture, which also upholds the togetherness of society... Unlike the modern youth culture, a common culture sanctifies the adult state, to which it offers rites of passage.

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

The modern horror audience is wise to our tricks this lets it in on the gag.

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

Dawn itself is the most neglected masterpiece of the modern world.

Music is neither old nor modern: it is either good or bad music, and the date at which it was written has no significance whatever.

Whatever, in fact, is modern in our life we owe to the Greeks. Whatever is an anachronism is due to mediaevalism.

I think some of the best modern writing comes now from travellers.

In modern warfare there are no victors; there are only survivors.

Everything in modern civilization is based on this concept of time which is not really valid.

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

I've read some of your modern free verse and wonder who set it free.

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

With the possible exception of things like box scores, race results, and stock market tabulations, there is no such thing as Objective Journalism. The phrase itself is a pompous contradiction in terms.

Russel Wright was the most responsible for the shift in taste toward modern in the late 1930s.

Chicago is the product of modern capitalism, and, like other great commercial centers, is unfit for human habitation.

You lose only the things you have

I don't think about music as being new or modern. I just play.

The machines, the modern mode of production, slowly undermined domestic production and not just for thousands but for millions of women the question arose: Where do we now find our livelihood?

Modern women - we're very good at keeping ourselves busy. There are PTA meetings, exercising, bake sales at school. I like that my life is not the same every day.

Christianity teaches us to love our neighbor as ourself; modern society acknowledges no neighbor.

The origin of a modern party is anthropological: humans meet and share food to lower hostility between them and indicate friendship.

Large motorway flyovers are the cathedrals of the modern world.