Modern Quotes - Page 18

The modern composer builds upon the foundation of truth.

In modern Greek history, there is a close relationship between national humiliation and political radicalization.

French design hardly exists, except as artificial modernism.

There are enough fossils showing distinctive features to rule out the possibility these are unusual or aberrant modern humans

To the Ancients, Friendship seemed the happiest and most fully human of all loves... The modern world in comparison, ignores it.

The important thing is not to do any agriculture whatsoever, and particularly to make the modern agricultural sciences a forbidden area - they're worse than witchcraft, really.

Modernism released us from the constraints of everything that had gone before with a euphoric sense of freedom.

Let's face it, though, anything that's apt to happen to an appliance like a blender isn't covered by the warranty anyway, so I never send them in. If it breaks, I'll buy a new one. That's the American way.

The truth is, "What is a journalist?" is one of those questions for which there is no proper answer. The prehistory of modern journalism shows it has been a ragged and confusing trade all the way through.

Financial crises are an unfortunate but necessary consequence of modern capitalism.

I am a showman in the traditional sense, but modern, too. I like to use sets and lighting to create magic.

Most modern comedy is crap.

I can think of no one more qualified to write about the modern South than Curtis Wilkie

Don't call me a Postmodern!

We can only protect liberty by making it relevant to the modern world.

A modern economy and society requires skilled people, so you need to train them.

What is the world coming to, with these modern women? A man can't tell them what to do.

Modern Hinduism, modern Jainism, and Buddhism branched off at the same time. For some period, each seemed to have wanted to outdo the others in grotesqueness and humbuggism.

The sale of sex in modern societies is not about spreading genes. Sex has been taken over by the memes.

I've never known, at least a modern historical instance, where the truth wasn't superior to distortion in every way.

What a lucky thing the wheel was invented before the automobile; otherwise can you imagine the awful screeching?

Religion, a mediaeval form of unreason, when combined with modern weaponry becomes a real threat to our freedoms.

I grew up and I've worked with people who have been very present, a) either always jumping to whatever is most modern technologically advanced sort of thing, or b) people in this industry, like Kevin Smith, who, his communication with his fans is hugely connected to his success. And he was talking about that years ago. And David Bowie was doing that years ago. And Prince was doing that years ago.

Lincoln was known to have walked miles to borrow books, to get the most rudimentary form of education. So what do we do on his birthday? We close the schools!

I have never been against new art as such; some of it is good, much is crap, most is somewhere in between.