Quotes About Modern

MoMA is one of the world's most admired cultural institutions.

BlackBerrys are divine instruments.

I don't think German films have to be heavy or intellectual the way they sometimes used to be.

'Emergency Contact' is about the anxiousness that is inherent in meat space interactions.

All newly decorated flats look the same these days. Interiors are dominated by a lot of beiges and browns and I didn't want to go for that.

You either use the Internet or you are backward.

I like having my cellphone. I like the Internet. I like being different.

Not many performers are equally at home in drama and comedy; Claudette Colbert was one of those few. It's hard to decide whether she was more brilliant in screwball comedies like It Happened One Night, The Palm Beach Story and Midnight, or tragedies like Imitation of Life and So Proudly We Hail! The most modern of actresses, she was also one of the most talented.

Randolph Churchill went into hospital… to have a lung removed. It was announced that the trouble was not "malignant."… It was a typical triumph of modern science to find the only part of Randolph that was not malignant and remove it.

He wasn't a complete human being at all. He was a tiny bit of one, unnaturally developed; something in a bottle, an organ kept alive in a laboratory. I thought he was a sort of primitive savage, but he was something absolutely modern and up-to-date that only this ghastly age could produce. A tiny bit of a man pretending he was the whole.

The age demanded an imageOf its accelerated grimace,Something for the modern stage,Not, at any rate, an Attic grace.

Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt.

I believe in some parts of Nietzsche, I prefer to read him in sections; In my heart of hearts I suspect him of being the one modern christian; Take notice I never have read him except in English selections.

And they want to know what we talked about? "de litteris et de armis, praestantibusque ingeniis", Both of ancient times and our own; books, arms, And of men of unusual genius.

Today in our late modern culture we find a growing dissatisfaction with the denigration of human embodiment and sociality that characterized so much ancient and early modern anthropology. These concerns have arisen in connection with what I call the philosophical "turn to relationality.

A modern man registers a hundred times more sensory impressions than an eighteenth-century artist

Sería ilusorio pensar que el futuro del cristianismo depende de la habilidad de adaptar el mensaje cristiano al mundo moderno. Depende —en lo que a nosotros respecta— del empeño por la santidad personal, por la identificación con Cristo, de todos y cada uno. Siempre será actual el diagnóstico de aquella afirmación: «estas crisis mundiales son crisis de santos»[84

Tôi ?ang s?ng trong m?t th? gi?i v?i vã t?i n?i ng??i ta s?n sàng tr? ti?n cho c?nh t??ng b?t ??ng.

En el siglo XX, el amor es un teléfono que no suena.

Quittant Neuilly pour Paris XVIe, nous sommes entrés dans une vitesse sans mémoire, la rapidité des gens qui n'ont plus de temps à perdre, ou plutôt : nous inventions une nouvelle bourgeoisie qui n'avait plus le luxe de s'intéresser au temps perdu.

Sl?pošana ir m?ta par S?zifu m?sdienu versija.

În secolul XX, dragostea e un telefon care nu sun?.

The luxury of skyscrapers is that they allow human beings to rise above themselves

If reading the Bible does not raise profound problems for you as a modern reader, then check with your doctor and inquire about the symptoms of brain-death. Robert P. Carroll