Quotes About Modern

In modern-day cricket, the role of the first three to four batsmen has become very crucial.

I think, in a lot of ways, hip-hop is interesting to me because it's like the modern-day folk music.

We have to accept that we are just machines. That's certainly what modern molecular biology says about us.

The concept of 'family' has changed so much. It's not just 'mom and dad' anymore. It's 'mom and mom' and 'dad and dad,' and it's kind of beautiful.

Moms can be fresh, fly and young, and that's the kind of mom I want to be.

Films are deprived of the conventional elderly figures now. They are more into yo moms and dads.

From the beginnings of modern monetary theory, in David Hume's marvelous essays of 1752, 'Of Money and Of Interest,' conclusions about the effect of changes in money have seemed to depend critically on the way in which the change is effected.

The world's major metropolitan cities are more or less the same.

Every modern woman shops everywhere for beauty, but for me it's mostly the airport or the drugstore.

It's the millenium, motives are incidental.

Thousands of years ago--in times we are fond of calling primitive (since this renders us modern without having to exert ourselves further to earn this qualification)...

Psikiyatri –burada bu terimi psikanalizi, psikolojiyi ve bütün ak?l saÄŸl??? mesleklerini içine alacak ÅŸekilde kullan?yorum– modern toplumlar?n en önemli kurumlar?ndan biridir ve "ak?l hastal???n?n diÄŸer hastal?klar gibi bir hastal?k olduÄŸu" ÅŸeklindeki postulat-önermeye s?k?ca baÄŸl?d?r. Bu önerme bir yaland?r.

The complexity of the society we have created for ourselves envelops us so completely that, instead of being dizzied, we take it for granted.

Anyone who insists that running a modern economy is a matter of plain common sense frankly doesn't understand much about running a modern economy.

Ormerod's discovery strongly implies that effective planning is rare in the modern economy.

Mrs. Kooshof's intolerance for complexity, for the looping circuitry of a well-told tale, symptomizes an epidemic disease of our modern world. (I see it daily among my students. The short attention span, the appetite limited to linearity. Too much Melrose Place.)

how to prepare a young generation to run a large, modern, and complex industrial society. Nearly

After New York City, where I lived and which I also loved, with its sharp right angles and hard surfaces and fast tempo and endless pavement and soaring vertical walls, a giant video game of the mind at the expense of the body

Ma mia cara... Lei così attraente e intelligente... Possibile che non abbia una vita affettiva? Non esiste più nessuno che l'abbia. In questo nostro tempo la gente ha una vita sessuale, non affettiva. Moltissimi stanno persino rinunciando al sesso. Quanto a me, non ho una vita affettiva perché non ho mai incontrato un uomo che sapesse come avere un vita affettiva. Forse neppure io lo so.

but the script he saw written all about him, on the signposts and facades of Alexandria, was musical, all right. It ran complicated scales on the optic nerve. Everywhere, the Arabic alphabet wiggled and popped, enlivening crumbling architecture with outbursts of linguistic jazz, notations from the DNA songbook, energetic markings as primal as grunts and as modern as the abstract electricity of synthesizer feedback.

All this will come as a surprise to modern Internet users who may assume that today's social-media environment is unprecedented. But many of the ways in which we share, consume, and manipulate information, even in the Internet era, build upon habits and conventions that date back centuries.

Imagination without skill gives us contemporary art.

The priorities of the traditional state were defense, public order, the prevention of epidemics and the aversion of mass discontent. But following World War II, and peaking around 1980, social expenditure became the main budgetary responsibility for modern states.

sense of shared citizenship. This sentiment was crucial to the formation of modern states and the peaceful societies they governed.