Modern Quotes - Page 17

I am not a modern man, I am just a wee old fashioned one.

I don't love the postmodern statement: "You shouldn't be spiritual if you are the artist."

If modern art has produced symbols that are unfamiliar, that was only to be expected.

It does not seem that the contradiction which exists between the aristocratic function of art and the democratic structure of modern society can ever be resolved.

We are in danger of developing a cult of the Common Man, which means a cult of mediocrity.

Memorials become relics if they do not stir our modern conscience.

Without the blues, modern music would be nothing like it is now - not remotely.

Modern politics is, at bottom, a struggle not of men but of forces.

I hate brandy...it stinks of modern literature.

Evidence is strongly suggesting Bipolar Disorder - previously known as Manic Depression - may be dramatically increasing in modern society.

Those who admire modern civilization usually identify it with the steam engine and the electric telegraph.

Ben Hogan is the most merciless of all the modern golfers.

Sex has become one of the most discussed subjects of modern times. The Victorians pretended it did not exist; the moderns pretend nothing else exists.

As ever with modern Britain, we are let down by a vast, over-manned, over-funded, hidebound, obstructive, box-ticking and incompetent bureaucracy.

The course of modern learning leads from humanism via nationalism to bestiality.

Professional footballers - those virile young stags of our modern culture - are near perpetual fountains of sputum.

The modern dance is no dance in the first place, and when you've finally learned it, it's not modern any more.

Modern life ... is often a mechanical oppression and liquor is the only mechanical relief.

America was born modern; it did not have to achieve modernity, nor did it have modernity thrust upon it.

Mental illness is the last frontier. The gay thing is part of everyday life now on a show like 'Modern Family,' but mental illness is still full of stigma. Maybe it is time for that to change.

Pen in Barack Obama hands is far more dangerous than any other president, at least in modern history, if not ever.

I'm really interested in modern history, but to fulfill a History degree at Brown you have to do modern and pre-modern.

See I'm a poet to some, a regular modern day Shakespeare.

Many people don't know that you don't spend 10 minutes without using a satellite. Or that agriculture is managed from space. Banking, too. The space program is like our airports and highways. It's not a luxury. It's part of the fabric of the modern world.

All the modern devices we have enable us to investigate things and have enabled us to do better.