Modern Quotes - Page 16

Private information is practically the source of every large modern fortune.

All the modern christian churches, who deny new revelation, have no more authority to preach, baptize, or administer any other ordinance of the gospel than the idolatrous Hindoos have; indeed all their administrations are worse than in vain — they are a solemn mockery in the sight of God.

The worst of a modern stylish mansion is that it has no place for ghosts.

And as far as the Disney Concert hall is concerned, it is a wonderful modern structure and I am extremely honored that I had this opportunity to have a concert here.

Henry Blodget does occasionally have a new idea. If you're making a point about aggregation or the emptiness of modern journalism, he's far from the best target. Try Huffpo - or Gawker writers whose souls have been corroded by irony.

I used to dance when I was younger - ballet and modern dance.

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.

In our modern complex world, fundamentalism is dangerous because of its rigidity and its imperviousness to other ideas.

Primitivism has become the vulgar cliché of much modern art and speculation.

If nobody comes to your shows, then it's modern dance. If everybody comes to your shows and no one likes it, is that ballet? I don't know.

I love to collect modern art.

In Tharoor's hands [the story of modern India] is transformed into Mahabharata magic.... Endlessly inventive, irreverent, wise, ingenious,... it takes on at one level or another the entire panorama of modern India....Energetic and eventful.

Characters paralyzed by the meaninglessness of modern life still have to drink water from time to time.

I also read modern novels - I have just had to read 60 as I am one of the judges for the Orange Fiction Prize.

In modern novels I try to not let myself get away and to be here, and that's why I write about my life and myself. But even when I do that there's an element of disappearing to a place that's not me. It's "the selflessness of writing". It seldom happens, but when it does it's worth quite a lot.

I love new writing, new blood, modern works by unknown writers.

Every patient reacts a little differently, both biologically and psychologically. The only constant in cancer is inconstancy; the only certainty is a future of uncertainty, a truism for all of modern life but one made vivid by life-threatening illness.

I had changed from being a mathematician to a practicing scientist. I was increasingly embarassed that I could no longer follow some of the more modern branches of pure mathematics.

In the conventional wisdom of conservatives, the modern search for security is regularly billed as the greatest single threat to economic progress.

I love TV now, and 'Modern Family,' but what draws me back to theater is that initial instinct of wanting to be a theater actor. I love the challenge of starting a play and not stopping until you finish. I love the immediacy of trusting your instincts.

Change is no modern invention. It is as old as time and as unlikely to disappear. It has always to be counted on as of the essence of human experience.

English poetry begins whenever we decide to say the modern English language begins, and it extends as far as we decide to say that the English language extends.

It is as if only irrelevance can be promoted as art.

The theory of our modern technic shows that nothing is as practical as theory.

No modern nation has ever constructed a foreign policy that was acceptable to its intellectuals