Quotes About Modern

Practically speaking, if timesaving devices really saved time, there would be more time available to us now than ever before in history. But, strangely enough, we seem to have less time than even a few years ago.

MORDICO: Yes, to speak of an "un-American poetry" is to be anti-modern, searching for an essence, not in words but among words—to help English grow a limb it does not have.

Only a thoughtless observer can deny that correspondences come into play between the world of modern technology and the archaic symbol-world of mythology.

For a complex natural shape, dimension is relative. It varies with the observer. The same object can have more than one dimension, depending on how you measure it and what you want to do with it. And dimension need not be a whole number; it can be fractional. Now an ancient concept, dimension, becomes thoroughly modern.

Modern man is in crisis. He has degenerated from the redoubtable pillar he became through centuries of refinement and slipped resignedly into the popular depiction of himself as a witless under-achiever, incapable of looking after himself or those around him.

I want 'Flash' to reflect the world we live in.

I think 'Riverdale,' the show as a whole, is so now, so today. There's so much going on that can be reflected as far as what's going on in society.

I've been told I'm an old soul, but I'm only 25. I have the old with the new in me, and my house reflects that.

Folks have to pin me down because, for one thing, I don't have a laptop. I don't have an iPhone, and I refuse to carry them because they're immensely hackable.

When cellphones came out, my girlfriend refused to get one for five years, because she thought it would turn her into somebody who couldn't connect with other people - and, of course, she got a cellphone.

We want to sound modern, but we're still influenced by ska, reggae and Eighties U.K. bands.

The longer a region is in contact with modern civilization, the higher the degree to which the society in the region is civilized.

It is the duty of Congress to ensure our lead regulations are up to date and consistent with modern detection methods so that we can better protect children from the harmful consequences of exposure.

It's amazing what a resource modern technology is now for making ballets, and I film my rehearsals almost every day.

In case you don't know this, we're not in the '90s anymore. Indie cinema does not reign.

The invention of the camera enabled the reinvention of the British monarchy for the modern era.

I will continue my activities related to education in one way or another. I certainly would have at the top my agenda, with respect to education, the need to do much better with modern educational technology.

Surrogacy used to be difficult, because the woman that was carrying the child was biologically related to the child. And sometimes you can still do it that way, but you do not have to do it that way anymore.

I'm interested in music that happens now and that relates to our lives now.

I never thought of myself doing period. When you're in your acting classes, and you think about the kind of roles you want to play, it's always 'modern relationship drama'-type things.

Kids haven't changed since my day except they are more hip.

I'm the hip-hop Quincy Jones of today.

How can you call yourself a cosmopolitan modern person if you don't know what hip-hop is?

We live in a world which is changing very fast. What seems contemporary now will be historical in two years.