Quotes About Modern

Certainly it is a different world for players nowadays. But it depends on the individual.

Nowadays there is more dynamism in chess, modern players like to take the initiative. Usually they are poor defenders though.

The hateful thing about most hotels nowadays is that they only have duvets. I hate duvets.

I am aware, as everybody has to be, that there's more competition for one's attention nowadays.

Nowadays, we have to break the molds to what it means to be a model in 2016.

Everything is social media nowadays, everything is sports and entertainment.

Nowadays so many things are happening all over the place. I'd sound really like a regressive babuji if I say stuff like the institution of marriage is crumbling.

Nowadays when you're shooting HD people will walk in front of the camera, it can just be rolling all the time - nobody cares.

There's nowhere like Detroit; it's a modern necropolis: all these art deco masterpieces crumbling away.

Most people no longer live in nuclear families at all.

The nuclear family doesn't work. It's very destructive; it grew out of selfishness.

'To All The Boys' is one film amongst a couple other romantic comedies through the decades that promotes... I don't know what they're calling it. A modern man? A man that's more emotionally accessible and available and willing to communicate and actually care and nurture.

I read many wonderful novels, though I now find the idea of literary fiction obsolete.

Upon closer examination, it's obvious that the history of modern conservative is permeated with racism, extremism, conspiracy-mongering, isolationism and know-nothingism.

Entre el lenguaje, ser por naturaleza social, y el escritor, que sólo engendra en la soledad, se establece así una relación muy extraña: gracias al escritor el lenguaje amorfo, horizontal, se yergue e individualiza; gracias al lenguaje, el escritor moderno, rotas las otras vías de comunicación con su pueblo y su tiempo, participa en la vida de la Ciudad.

The difficulty of modern poetry does not stem from its complexity, but rather from the fact that, like mysticism or love, it demands total surrender—and an equally total vigilance.

La società moderna è ben lontana dal costituire un esempio: molte delle sue manifestazioni - la pubblicità, il culto del denaro, le disuguaglianze abissali, l'egoismo feroce, l'uniformità dei gusti, delle opinioni, delle coscienze - sono un concentrato di orrori e idiozie.

Guy had a moral strength but it resembled one of those vast Victorian feats of engineering: impressive but out of place in the modern world.

newer and more modern cemeteries, devoid of cypress trees or any other vegetation, were usually situated well outside the new quarters and surrounded by tall concrete walls, just like factories, military bases, and hospitals.

Museums should no longer concern themselves with history on a grand scale, the sagas of kings and heroes, or the forging of national identities; they should focus instead on the lives and belongings of ordinary people, just as modern novels do.

The currents of modern civilization had somehow passed it by, and as he returned to it now, fresh from the sides of England and France, Sergei Semenov saw only familiar signs of backwardness and decay.

Child-rearing today was so complicated. You always had to think of what they'd say on television later.

I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvelous to us. The commonest thing is delightful if only one hides it.

I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone. The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever.