Quotes About Modern

My muse is the digital world.

Science gave me a cosmic religious feeling, and I would get the same feeling when I was dragged to the Met and the Museum of Modern Art.

I saw Joseph Cornell's lyrical work for the first time at the Museum of Modern Art in the late seventies and have internalized many of his boxes.

The fact is that co-operation between independent countries - to our mutual advantage - is the way of the modern world.

There no longer can be any doubt that the creation of the first index mutual fund was the most successful innovation - especially for investors - in modern financial history.

I was a little bit ahead of my time.

I am not gadgety at all. It's not that I'm appalled by technology, but I've taken my time acquiring any of it.

L.A. is, on one hand, very mysterious; it's very modern. It's a mysterious place - it's a haunting place - and everything in our culture around the world of entertainment leads back to Hollywood.

It's a mystery to me the way that contemporary art galleries function.

I wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read.

I think horror or science fiction is another way of telling a modern myth - it's like Ancient Greece; it's like kids couldn't wait for the next 'Orpheus' story, the next 'Jason and the Argonauts.'

Good action films - not crap, but good action films - are really morality plays. They deal in modern, mythic culture.

Modern football is increasingly dominated by the coaches - their narcissism to put themselves above the team and their players.

Propelled by freedom of faith, gender equality and economic justice for all, India will become a modern nation. Minor blemishes cannot cloak the fact that India is becoming such a modern nation: no faith is in danger in our country, and the continuing commitment to gender equality is one of the great narratives of our times.

The disease of mutual distrust among nations is the bane of modern civilization.

I do believe that peoples' natures can be changed, and they have to be changed if we want to live in this modern world and be a part of it.

In modern culture the scientific community praises disagreement as a way to improve knowledge. For Ur-Fascism, disagreement is treason.

The official Fascist intellectuals were mainly engaged in attacking modern culture and the liberal intelligentsia for having betrayed traditional values.

Anyone with too much smarts, too great a sense of responsibility, too great a propensity for asking difficult questions, will be hopelessly frustrated by modern American life. It's the dimwitted dolts who live happy and fulfilling lives.

Women were different. They no longer were satisfied having a man care for them. He has no idea to do with a modern women. Contemplating his demise seemed much wiser than trying to understand the reasoning of a present-day woman.

You're in love, my old friend, and that is the downfall of all good men." Even Gregori, the dark one, allowed his lifemate her freedom because of her fear of him. How does one strike a balance between keeping a woman happy and protecting her? Aidan mused aloud. Stefan shrugged. You're in the modern world now, Aidan. Women rule their own lives. They make their own decisions and generally drive us all crazy. Welcome to the twenty-first century.

Now, Raven." "Don't you now-Raven me. That brother of yours, worm that he is, male chauvinist unequaled in modern times, told you something he didn't tell me, didn't he?" Leaning back with studied casualness, Jacques tipped his chair to a precarious angle and raised an eyebrow. "Women have vivid imaginations. I think you have a suspicious nature due to your American upbringing.

There are no shared memories anymore. Now, now there's twitter and email and Facebook and cable and satellite

How could you begin to explain London? A city once the color of tobacco and carrots, now chalky stone and angled steel, but vivid chimney pots can still be glimpsed between slivers of rain-specked glass. Nine billion pounds' worth of Christmas bonuses have just been spent in the city's square mile.