Quotes About Modern

Nothing is so aggravating as calmness. There is something positively brutal about the good temper of most modern men.

I'm a very simple man. You've got to have, like, a computer nowadays to turn the TV on and off... and the nightmare continues.

Modern man threw a brick through his own window in order to sell himself a burglar alarm.

Brigitte Bardot was one of the first women to be really modern and treat men like love objects, buying them and discarding them. I like that.

In the present age, a man with harmonious ideas is regarded as out of touch.

On the whole, our modern ritual is impoverished and does not fulfill man's need for collective art and ritual.

The tattoo has a profound meaning: the superficiality of modern man's existence.

Men who cannot exploit the co-operative benefits derived from institutions in modern knowledge economies are discriminated against by girls and so have fewer children

New York rose out of the water like a great wave that found it impossible to return again and so remained there in horror, peering out of the million windows man had caged it with.

Towns are after all excrescences, grey fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.

Given a decent start any girl can beat a man nowadays.

The task confronting contemporary man is to live with the hidden ground of his activities as familiarly as our literate predecessors lived with the figure minus ground.

There is nothing for the modern man or woman to fear about most cases of cancer. Nothing except delay.

I may as well tell you, here and now, that if you are going about the place thinking things pretty, you will never make a modern poet. Be poignant, man, be poignant!

Man ... feels lost without the direction-finder provide by progress.

Men who write love letters don't live in this century.

The ordinary man is the curse of civilization.

Every family is different. I am mom and I am dad and I'm going to do my best. You should be proud, walk through life saying I have the coolest family. I am part of a modern family.

The modern banking system manufactures money out of nothing. The process is perhaps the most astounding piece of sleight-of-hand that was ever invented.

There's good stuff going on in modern pop music, but a lot of it is really materialistic and only about money.

Before civilization, artists painted for the living. Today, most paint for a living.

Thanks to the greatest invention of recent years, the MP3-playing alarm clock, I can now choose the song that wakes me up in the morning.

It's frightening to wake up one morning and discover that while you were asleep you went out of style.

I didn't want people to wait six months to get the clothes, I wanted a very immediate, real feel to it. You see it one night, the next morning you can go and buy the same outfit!