Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joseph B. Wirthlin

If we become ill, modern medicine can work healing miracles.

If we want to keep soldiers, we need to train them on modern equipment.

Eric Hoffer

When you automate an industry you modernize it; when you automate a life you primitivize it.

P. J. O'Rourke

We are a nation that worships speed and power. And for good reason. Without power we would still be part of England and everybody would be out of work... Bicycles are too slow and impuissant for a nation like ours. They belong in Czechoslovakia.

Lance Morrow

The jumbo jet is the airborne equivalent of the interstate highway...One might as well be stuffed into a cartridge and shot through a pneumatic tube, like interoffice mail.

Chris Carter

are out of step with modern conservation approaches.

The more primitive weapons teach what soldiers are supposed to do with the modern weapon.

Sam Levenson

I'm gonna put all my money into taxes. They're sure to go up.

Roland Emmerich

["2012"] it was really more about the subject matter, and to do a modern retelling of Noah's Ark, a flood story.

Roland Barthes

All of a sudden it didn't bother me not being modern.

Susan Griffin

Although the many virtues that courtesans possessed were employed to defy circumstances, the role they played depended on the same circumstances over which they triumphed- conditions which to, fortunately for modern women, no longer exist.

Queen Rania of Jordan

Religion and modernity are not necessarily mutually exclusive.

E-traffickers are just a modern way of saying drug dealers,

We wanted to do modern Japanese. We wanted to tweak things, to play with ingredients.

Reinhold Niebuhr

Marxism is the modern form of Jewish prophecy.

Roger Scruton

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.

Walter Cronkite

We're living in a state where no one can trust his telephone conversations, nor even his personal conversations in a room, in a bar or anywhere else.

Salvador Dali

Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.

W. S. Merwin

Modern poetry, for me, began not in English at all but in Spanish, in the poems of Lorca.

W. S. Gilbert

I am the very model of a modern major general

Georgette Heyer

I feel an almost overwhelming interest in the methods of daylight abduction employed by the modern youth.

Franz Grillparzer

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

Guy deBord

In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has moved away into a representation.

Gene Sarazen

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

Support for the modern serviceman or woman starts from the skin out,

Neil Strauss

The modern player is totally under the radar.

The modernity of yesterday is the tradition of today, and the modernity of today will be tradition tomorrow.

Karan Johar

It's a look at modern marriages, the reasons why people get married.

Frank Zappa

Modern Americans behave as if intelligence were some sort of hideous deformity.

Jean Baudrillard

You are born modern, you do not become so.

Giorgio Armani

Modern life requires us to be more and more flexible in our attire.

H. L. Mencken

The townspeople are morons, yokels, peasants and genus homo boobiensis...surrounded by gaping primates from the upland vallies.

Irving Kristol

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