Famous Quotes & Sayings

Omar Sharif

Picasso: Masterworks From the Museum of Modern Art.

B. R. Ambedkar

The sovereignty of scriptures of all religions must come to an end if we want to have a united integrated modern India.

Arnold Schoenberg

My music is not modern, it is merely badly played

It is a referendum on nationalism versus internationalism, on modernity versus tradition.

Dean Miller

I don't think people want chains. People want modern conveniences, but they don't want chains.

Sociology was born of the modern ardor to improve society.

He is kind of a missionary of modern dance.

Aubrey McClendon

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

When a presidency has been turned around, particularly the modern presidency, there's often an outside element.

Albert Einstein

If I had it [life] to do all over again, I'd have been a plumber.

Corin Nemec

It is a Modern day, and these times need Modern solutions to Modern problems.

George R. R. Martin

The success that the Tolkien books had redefined modern fantasy.

I'm like a middle-aged person; when my friends go on about modern bands, I don't know what they are talking about. I'm into rock n' roll, like Jimi Hendrix. Not so much because of my parents, who used to play a lot of Nina Simone and older blues, but my brother and sister.

To be modern is to tinker with the incurable.

Robert Morgan

The great watershed of modern poetry is French, more than English.

Kurt Vonnegut

It is a sobering thought that Gomer Pyle and the Beverly Hillbillies may be among our chief interstellar emissaries.

Colin Greenwood

I don't listen to much modern composition.

Harriet Harman

Is this the situation in the modern Conservative party? That women should be seen and not heard?

My successor may need to be more modern than I am. It's a question of generations.

D. H. Lawrence

The modern pantheist not only sees the god in everything, he takes photographs of it.

E. F. Schumacher

The most striking thing about modern industry is that it requires so much and accomplishes so little.

David Attenborough

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

Daniel Tosh

The flat-brimmed cap is the modern day dunce cap.

Amy Vanderbilt

The modern rule is that every woman should be her own chaperon.

Anthony Burgess

Great Music, it said, and Great Poetry would like quieten Modern Youth down and make Modern Youth more Civilized. Civilized my syphilised yarbles.

Andy Rooney

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.

Andrew Marr

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.

Barry Commoner

The modern technologist is less 'sorcerer' and more 'sorcerer's apprentice'.

Dan Stevens

I would like to do something modern and possibly funny.

There are no four-letter words or vulgarity. It's got modern themes, but they are presented in an old-fashioned way.

Camille Paglia

How many modern transsexuals are unacknowledged shamans? Perhaps it is to poets they should go for counsel, rather than surgeons.

Jane Gardam

In modern novels, there is no one I want to copy. My style 'is a poor thing, but it is my own.'

In just over 100 years, the 'Southern Continent' has sprouted into a modern country.