Quotes About Modern

People don't have time to wait for somebody to paint their portraits anymore. The money is in photography.

I am very traditional as a man. I am not modern and never have been. I think I was born 50 years of age and out of my time.

Modern education too often covers the fingers with rings, and at the same time cuts the sinews at the wrist.

Lana del Rey is not bad at all. She looks very much like a modern-time singer. In her photos she is beautiful. Is she a construct with all her implants? She's not alone with implants.

These days most women have jobs that last way too long. A lot of people in New York barely have time to get laid.

People ask me, when was my best time? I always say, 'Today.'

If your objective is to tell time, you will not buy a mechanical watch. You have the time on your phone.

Is it not our duty to find the symphonic formula which fits our time, one which progress, daring and modern victory demand? The century of airplanes has a right to its own music.

SAGE. A wise and Holy man who died a long time ago. No one modern qualifies.

Did you ever figure to be living in a time when your check is good, but the bank bounces?

What I am interested in is the present time

Worse, neither of us has liked any of the other's Facebook posts, the modern equivalent of pistols at dawn.

Another factor that seems to me to be equally important is the great myth and rationale of 'the modern,' that it places dynamite at the foot of old error and levels its shrines and monuments. Contempt for the past surely accounts for a consistent failure to consult it.

I think that in our earlier history--the Gettysburg Address or something--there was the conscious sense that democracy was an achievement. It was not simply the most efficient modern system or something. It was something that people collectively made and they understood that they held it together by valuing it.

In college all of them had studied the putative effects of deracination, which were angst and anomie, those dull horrors of the modern world. They had been examined on the subject, had rehearsed bleak and portentous philosophies in term papers, and they had done it with the earnest suspension of doubt that afflicts the highly educable.

If being modern means having the understanding and will to oppose the passions of collective life that can at any time emerge to disgrace us and, now, even to destroy us, then one great type of modern man is surely Dietrich Bonhoeffer — more particularly, Pastor Bonhoeffer in his pulpit, Pastor Bonhoeffer at his prayers.

The spirit of our times can appear to be one of joyless urgency.

Light literature, along with light cinema and light art, give the reader and the viewer the comfortable impression that they are cultured, revolutionary, modern and in the vanguard without having to make the slightest intellectual effort. Culture that purports to be avant-garde and iconoclastic instead offers conformity in its worst forms: smugness and self-satisfaction.

No es el mundo de la burguesía, sino algo más ancho, que cubre transversalmente las clases sociales, lo que Madame Bovary convierte en materia central de la novela: el reino de la mediocridad, el universo gris del hombre sin cualidades. Sólo por esto merecería la novela de Flaubert ser considerada fundadora de la novela moderna, casi toda ella erigida en torno a la esmirriada silueta del antihéroe.

Curtius cierra así su comparación: «Balzac siente un ardiente interés por la vida y nos contagia su fuego; Flaubert, su náusea». Así es, y ésa es precisamente la razón por la que Flaubert es el primer novelista moderno.

Such things as anguish, woe, affliction, guilt, feelings of awfulness, and utter wretchedness, the bread and butter of Days of Yore and Russians, sadly have very little staying power in these lickety-split Modern Times.

We're living longer, we social network alone with our screens, and our depth of feeling gets shallower.

The way modern medicine operates is like trying to diagnose what's wrong with your car by listening to the noises it makes instead of looking under the hood.

life in our modern era is little more than life in an open-air mind-control laboratory.