Quotes About Modern living

For a two-job working family, a pressure cooker gets a meal on the table in seven to 15 minutes, start to finish.

I live in quite a smart home. I built it from scratch, so I thought of everything... a lot of my doors are automatic; the whole house is voice-activated.

Après tout, on vit à l'époque des Kleenex. On fait avec les gens comme avec les mouchoirs, on froisse après usage, on jette, on en prend un autre, on se mouche, on froisse, on jette. Tout le monde se sert des basques du voisin.

Nobody understands the art of living nowadays,' said Captain Wyatt. 'Catching trains, making appointments, fixing times for everything—all nonsense. Get up with the sun, I say, have your meals when you feel like it, and never tie yourself to a time or a date. I could teach people how to live if they would listen to me.

I don't leave home without my Skullcandy Crushers. I don't leave home without my Bible, without my phone, and without my computer.

I'm less Soho House these days, more Airbnb. It's just so useful to have a washing machine, or to rock up somewhere with a baby bed and all the other kit provided.

Perfume is like a parenthesis, a moment of freedom, peace, love and sensuality in between the disturbances of modern living.

Nowadays, using a computer has become a way of life.

We all rely on technology to communicate, to survive, to do our banking, to shop, to get informed, but none of us knows how to read and write the code.

They do not usually deal with amenities—features that are not essential but make living a little easier, such as drapes, washing machines, swimming pools, saunas, parking places, intercoms, and dishwashers.

Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns.

We live longer but less precisely and in shorter sentences.

Our lives are strikingly different from the lives of those in decades past, primarily due to the technology we rely on.

One might almost say that to live in society today is something like living inside an enormous comic strip.

We have two kids, so it's a busy house. I want a place where the kids feel comfortable and like they can really live. I'm attracted to clean and modern but also feeling like you can plop yourself onto a couch and cuddle up.

Technology really helps our daily lives, but things like location services are actually quite creepy.

Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns.

Modern life demands, and is waiting for, a new kind of plan, both for the house and the city.

The truth is that he doesn't like to move his laptop. In his barren apartment it hums continuously. Evenings, weekends, he spends most hours in front of it. Ambidextrous, he mouses with his left hand and eats dinner with his right.

The cities will be part of the country; I shall live 30 miles from my office in one direction, under a pine tree; my secretary will live 30 miles away from it too, in the other direction, under another pine tree. We shall both have our own car. We shall use up tires, wear out road surfaces and gears, consume oil and gasoline. All of which will necessitate a great deal of work … enough for all. —LE CORBUSIER, THE RADIANT CITY (1967)

We're losing touch with ourselves in the technological world, and it is increasingly important to take time out.

At my house, I can operate pretty much everything from my phone. I can be anywhere in the world and adjust the temperature, check my security cameras and talk to people in the house. I can even turn on the TVs.

In modern industrial society only minimal effort is necessary to satisfy one's physical needs.

As "voyeurs of billionaires" (Goolsbee, 2007) material excess has become our metronome of modern living.