Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Cameron

A Modern Compassionate Conservatism is right for our times, right for our partyand right for our country.

Edward Teller

When Columbus took off, the purpose was to improve trade relations with China. That problem has not been solved to this very day, but just look at the by-products.

Mason Cooley

Modern pictures banish depiction for interfering with the workings of paint.

Mason Cooley

To be thoroughly modern, an aphorism should trail off vaguely rather than coming to a point.

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.

John B. S. Haldane

This is my prediction for the future: Whatever hasn't happened will happen, and no one will be safe from it.

Frank Lloyd Wright

The only thing wrong with architecture is architects.

John Crowe Ransom

And yet what is Modernism? It is undefined.

John Fowles

An aphorism is a generalization, therefore not modern.

John Lyly

Fish and guests in three days are stale.

Josh Gad

Josh Gad and I have been friends since the time he auditioned for Modern Family. I directed the pilot for that, and that's how we met.

The modern clercs have created in so-called cultivated society a positive romanticism of harshness. The have also created a romanticism of contempt.

The modern moralists extol ... the cult of practical activity in defiance of the disinterested life.

In brief, egoism in its modern interpretation, is the antithesis, not of altruism, but of idealism.

There is no word more generally misinterpreted than the word egoism, in its modern sense.

Meg Ryan

The best thing about modern living is anaesthesia.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Modern intelligence won't accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.

Kate Adie

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

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

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.

Simone Weil

Modern life is given over to immoderation. Immoderation invades everything: actions and thought, public and private life.

Tim Gunn

I love Modern Family but it's among a handful of favorite shows.