Quotes About Modern

In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has moved away into a representation.

We don't live in a primitive society any more. Many of us are lucky enough to be educated. We also realize that gender and sexuality is a spectrum.

Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

We lament the speed of our society and the lack of depth and the nature of disposable information.

The speed at which modern CPUs perform computations still blows my mind daily.

Almost everybody I know has this sense of overdosing on information and getting dizzy living at post-human speeds.

I'm trying to look at many, many things in modern life that I believe are going faster, and I'm trying to look at why they're going faster and what effect they have on us. We all know about FedEx and instant pudding, but it doesn't mean we've looked at all the consequences of our desire for speed.

Speed on its own isn't always so exciting. On a racing motorbike, I can do over 180 mph, which is fast, but not as fast as the airliners that we all climb aboard to fly off on holiday. Modern passenger jets can cruise at between 500 and 600 mph, but sitting in an aeroplane like that for hours on end isn't very exciting, is it?

High speed Internet access isn't a nice thing to have, it's a necessary thing to have.

Leather accents on pieces make it fun and spices up an outfit.

The Met is such a powerful place for me because it's a natural connection between the ancient world and the modern world. And when you're dealing with ancient mythology, trying to put a modern spin on it, you really can't do much better than to call on the Met.

If you're playing a cop in a modern film, you don't have to walk with your spine straight up and bow before a fight. There's a lot of free form of expressing yourself as an actor.

The modern dilemma is essentially a spiritual one, and every one of its main aspects, moral, political and scientific, brings us back to the need of a religious solution.

In spite of the advances of medicine, deathly epidemics are more menacing than ever before.

At the Museum of Roman Art, the logic of the forms is very much modern. But in spite of that, the idea of the construction could be related to a historical time.

Bringing an end to the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians may help the young Arab generation to realise their aspirations. Israel is more than willing to offer our experience in building a modern economy in spite of limited resources to the whole region.

You're cutting off your nose to spite your face if you try to be self-consciously cutting-edge.

One of the hardest challenges posed by the modern world is how to deal with abundance. It's even harder to confront because admitting that it's a problem seems spoiled.

Some people say Hawaii is spoiled, but I don't think so. It's modern. It's a part of today's world.

We've become lazy and a bit spoilt and we want our food quickly and easily.

A lot of men I have spoken to have said it's very confusing being a modern man. You want to be sensitive but also strong. You can't win. It's really hard trying to be both.

In this day and age, love is temporary and marriage is unnatural--the product of Madison Avenue advertising executives and television producers.

Women today have more of an overview of their lives and how marriage is or is not a part of it.

It isn't silence you can cut with a knife any more, it's interchange of ideas. Intelligent discussion of practically everything is what is breaking up modern marriage.