Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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!

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.

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.

Giorgio Armani

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

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

Meg Ryan

The best thing about modern living is anaesthesia.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Eric Hoffer

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

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.

William J. Clinton

You can't be involved in modern American politics without somebody attacking you.

Rob James-Collier

It's not just modern-day society that is liberal.

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.

William S. Burroughs

He [Samuel Beckett] is great, a very great writer. Any modern writer is bound to be influenced by [James] Joyce. Of course, by Beckett as well.

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.

Walt Kelly

Thank goodness modern convenience is a thing of the remote future.

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.

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.