Quotes About Modern

Everything's computerized these days," he wheezed, "but I'm a sucker for hard copies. There's something about the physical feeling of paper in your hand that helps you to think, right? Or maybe that's just me.

Of course this will never be accepted by fundamentalists, but if Christianity bows to reactionary pressure to return to its authoritarian past it will be consigning itself to the dustbin of history. The modern world is simply too sophisticated to fall for the 'it must be true because it says so in the Bible' routine.

The bulky caveman boot certainly has a modern heir: Uggs. I feel they are aptly named and don't belong in this millennium, but I realize I'm in the minority on that.

We all live such digital lives, there is no reason why we should not import this into our company.

There's no reason to be agnostic about ideas that are dramatically incompatible with everything we know about modern science.

The modern woman has a modern life, and most of us work. There's no time to change before we go out in the evening, so a dress should always look appropriate for day and night.

Nobody knows what anticipation is anymore. Everything is so immediate.

Malacca fascinates me more and more daily. There is, among other things, a mediaevalism about it. The noise of the modern world reaches it only in the faintest echoes; its sleep is almost dreamless. Its sensations seem to come out of books read in childhood.

The modern stuff, I can take it or leave it. I like its danceability, but the DJs talk a lot of nonsense.

It used to be when you eat, you eat with people. But instant noodles are so instant that people eat by themselves. And it's a very convenient way of eating but also a very lonely way of eating.

With 'Hang the DJ,' I was concerned that it was more comedic and much lighter than we normally do for 'Black Mirror.'

All modern MIDI synthesizers are capable of polyphony, which means they can play more than one note at a time and more than one instrument at a time.

I think it's important to note that, you know, we live in a time where everything's changed. The idea of blended families is now not foreign to anybody, it's actually quite commonplace.

I don't understand the notion that modern farming is anything do to with nature. It's a pretty gross interference with nature.

I think it's an old fashioned notion that fashion needs to be exclusive to be fashionable.

In many ways, Nixon started the modern notion of 'compassionate conservatism,' which as we all know is neither 'compassionate' nor 'conservative.'

The modern notion of background music is a loud thump, thump, thump. It isn't only conversation it kills but also concentration.

If you can make something that looks new - novelty is exciting.

Fire made us human, fossil fuels made us modern, but now we need a new fire that makes us safe, secure, healthy and durable.

Committees have become so important nowadays that subcommittees have to be appointed to do the work.

Honeymoon lasts not nowadays above a fortnight.

Nowadays midfielders definitely have to be complete players - you can't just be a destroyer, you have to build play too.

Having had that experience... I think, what modern culture wants to see is the relationship with the woman. I don't think you can tell a story on film nowadays where the woman simply is there for the man when he decides to settle down.

Nowadays the audience has changed. No one can anticipate the audience.