Quotes About Modern

My God," Davis said, shaking his head. "The tools of the modern vampire hunter - electric lights and cocaine.

The chances of anybody today being a 'pure' example of any specific medieval 'race' must be close to zero, quite aside from the category being patently meaningless.

There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.

If a government is to do great new things, it will need more support. If a government is to change the world, it will need mass support. This is one of the discoveries of modern government.

The idea of a rational bureaucracy, of skill, merit, and consistency, is essential to all modern states.

I really like 'Girls.' I know everybody does, but I love 'Girls.

My mom decorated with lots of antiques. I never liked it when I was a little girl - I wanted to live in a modern house. But now I love it.

I don't really believe in cars, but I drive one every day and I love that it gets me places and makes life so much easier and faster and I don't know what I would do without it.

Armani's clothes are beautiful and modern and I love him.

It is an altogether wrong idea that the modern product of civilization is less susceptible to love. I sometimes think it is the other way.

I love consumerism, TV culture, shopping malls. There's nothing I'd ever buy, but I like being there. It's wacky.

I love to collect modern art.

I love the idea of a woman's suit, but I wanted something that was a little easier to wear.

Certainly in the modern age where everything is glossed over, when somebody speaks their mind, the majority of the public go, I'd love to have said that.

I like the connection with fans and people who have been supportive of me. And I love the idea of real feedback and a two-way street, which is very, very modern.

I love vinyl, but I'm not a 'vinyl person'. I still collect, but most of my stuff is digital.

The view out the window was too much—the whoosh through the tunnel, the bright subway ads flashing by, taunting her with offers for travel insurance, human-sized pictures of chocolate bars . . . all the flotsam and jetsam of life. Numbers and houses and futures and food. Why did all this stuff have to fly into her face? Who needed it all? Why go this fast?

She may not have had that conscious, separate, and quite explicit desire to be a mother with which modern playwrights credit every unmated member of her sex. But she did know that she could love. And

Altogether, the instinct of sex is not pandered to in Oxford. It is not, however, as it may once have been, dormant. The modern importation of samples of femininity serves to keep it alert, though not to gratify it.

How could those in power, especially in such a modern, enlightened age as ours, ignore the spread of a deadly disease until it reached plague proportions?

War against puerperal fever. Caesarean operations. Incubators for premature births. We take life more seriously than in earlier times.

Sleepy pulled the car to a stop in front of this paved entranceway, which was flanked on either side by these enormous palm trees, kind of like the Polynesian Resort at Disney World. In fact, the whole place had kind of a Disney feel to it. You know, really big, and kind of modern and fake.

That was the problem these days--everything was considered disposable--clothes, cell phones, relationships.

The flâneur turned out to be a first signal of reaction – not a figure of self- realization, mastery, celebration of the modern – but a dupe who was so thrilled to be part of the crowd of consumers, who yielded to appearance, to pure illusion, and failed ultimately to gain self-understanding, let alone class-consciousness. In this regard, at least, the prostitute has a clearer consciousness, for it is not possible for her to be recuperated so easily.