Famous Quotes & Sayings

Morena Baccarin

I love 'Modern Family;' I don't exactly watch it when it's on, but I try to catch up on it when I can; it's one of my favorite shows.

James Thurber

The trouble with the lost generation is that it didn't get lost enough.

Eric Allin Cornell

I was partly old-fashioned and partly modern.

Epictetus

You lose only the things you have

Benjamin Franklin

A modern Wit is one of David's Fools.

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.

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.

Oscar Wilde

I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvelous to us. The commonest thing is delightful if only one hides it.

Oscar Wilde

Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern; one is apt to grow old fashioned quite suddenly.

Pranab Mukherjee

Our federal Constitution embodies the idea of modern India: it defines not only India but also modernity.

Pranab Mukherjee

Trickle-down theories do not address the legitimate aspirations of the poor. We must lift those at the bottom so that poverty is erased from the dictionary of modern India.

Noam Chomsky

Modern China; one also finds many things that are really quite admirable.

Joe Buck

Robert Kraft, a modern day Zoolander.

Michael Crichton

False fears are a plague, a modern plague!

Chris Matthews

Canonization in modern times is a very, almost scientific process.

George Orwell

The modern writer who has influenced me most is W. Somerset Maugham .

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.

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.