Quotes About Modern

The advertisement is one of the most interesting and difficult of modern literary forms.

The skyline of New York is a monument of a splendour that no pyramids or palaces will ever equal or approach.

New York is notoriously inhospitable to the past, disowning it whenever it can.

The fear of life is the favorite disease of the twentieth century.

I saw the bathroom fixtures as a kind of American Trinity.

When you look on one of your contemporary 'good copies' of historical remains, ask yourself the question: Not what style, but in what civilization is this building? And the absurdity, vulgarity, anachronism and solecism of the modern structure will be revealed to you in a most startling fashion.

We've reached an age that when construction workers stare at us it's because they figure we might be considering a remodeling job.

In all modern depressions, recessions, or growth-correction, as variously they are called, we never miss the goods that are not produced. We miss only the opportunities for the labour - for the jobs - that are not provided.

All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.

Culture, with us, ends in headache.

The tendency of modern science is to reduce proof to absurdity by continually reducing absurdity to proof.

Every generation laughs at the old fashions but religiously follows the new.

There are two kinds of fools: one says, 'This is old, therefore it is good'; the other says, 'This is new, therefore it is better.'

Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism.

The full-grown modern human being ... is conscious of touching the highest pinnacle of fulfillment... when he is consumed in the service of an idea, in the conquest of the goal pursued.

Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.

Simon Cowell is trying to get everyone to clone their dogs, and we've had our dogs 'done' so they can't have puppies any more. Cloning is like modern day reproducing - reproducing the bits you want.

On the Tube, you never see anyone looking you in your eye. They're all looking down at their screen.

The art of phlebotomy originated with bloodletting in 1400 B.C., and the modern clinical lab emerged in the 1960s - and it has not fundamentally evolved since then. You go in, sit down, they put a tourniquet on your arm, stick you with a needle, take these tubes and tubes of blood.

Our approach to economic development must be modern, focused and in tune with the global trend.

I used to have a phone machine that you turn 'on' and 'off,' which was great. Now, it's so technological that it's like going down the rabbit hole.

Why can't modern tech companies both grow and turn a profit at the same time?

You look at 30 Seconds to Mars, and you don't think, 'Ooh, I bet they're angry.' No one really does anger these days. I suppose it's a turn-off.

The Toothbrush mustache was first introduced in Germany by Americans, who turned up with it at the end of the 19th century the way Americans would turn up with ducktails in the 1950s. It was a bit of modern efficiency, an answer to the ornate mustaches of Europe - pop effluvia that fell into the grip of a bad, bad man.