Quotes About Modern

After closely examining my conscience, I venture to state that in my historical novels I intended the content to be just as modern and up-to-date as in the contemporary ones.

Yongsan Garrison is an important venue representing Korea's modern history which will be preserved.

Like Pinter and Orton, the writer, Clive Exton, catches the poetry of modern everyday speech, which, whether we like it or not, includes four-letter words used as verbs, nouns, adverbs and adjectives. But, God, is it difficult to learn.

Modern science is predicated on 'truths' verified through accurate observation and measurements of physical world phenomena.

I'm versatile and I can change positions. That's what the modern game is about.

One hundred percent, all your Shakespeare training serves you in the work in musical theater today: specifically in modern musical theater, our soliloquies, and now what we call rap. It's the reason it's so easy to learn, because it's verse; it's rhyme! It just sticks in the soul very easily.

All the modern verse plays, they're terrible; they're mostly about the poetry. It's more important that the play is first.

But in a lot of ways my poems are very conventional, and it's no big deal for me to write a poem in either free verse or strict form; modern poets can, and do, do both.

Well, it's a badge of honour for any self-respecting poet to be criticized by Auberon Waugh. But in a lot of ways my poems are very conventional, and it's no big deal for me to write a poem in either free verse or strict form; modern poets can, and do, do both.

The new physics provides a modern version of ancient spirituality. In a universe made out of energy, everything is entangled; everything is one.

Clearly, there are many places where diesel is king or gas-turbine is king, or IC engines will win, but there are many places in the world where, as we've seen, they just won't do the job. The modern version of the Stirling engine has some very, very attractive characteristics, and we're trying to optimize it for some of those applications.

I'm doing something called 'Olivia Twisted,' that will start next year. There may be something in between, but right now, that's the one that I'm slated to do next year. That's a very ultra-modern version of 'Oliver Twist,' and it's female-driven. It's an action film, and it's kind of dark and gritty.

You can use my phone, if you'll pay the roaming charges," I said. "I need a land line," he said "A pay phone." "You're out of touch with the times," I said. "A pay phone might be a little hard to find. Nobody uses them anymore.

Deborah's little house was lavishly decorated in I-have-no-life modern.

Martinis in a can, Callie. We live in an age of wonders.

That was the ideal: to remain dutiful to a preservationist ethos while not depriving yourself of modern creature comforts.

A handwritten letter is a treat for me now—quaint!—and you couldn't pay me to pick up your phone call. God help you if you leave a voice mail.

A common home renovation show refrain is "Why would anyone put linoleum over all this gorgeous hardwood?!" They did this because it was modern, durable, interesting, and easy to clean. Rest assured that when the next generation renovates your house, they're going to be screaming about all the goddamned shiplap.

The early settlers amazed her--they had pluck, they led lives of sweaty drama. Theirs was a world of corsets and whipping posts and indentured servitude. People worked the land and died in ungainly ways. Modern life, in comparison, seemed a cinch.

It would not be a good place for the heroine of a modern novel to stay at.  The heroine of a modern novel is always "divinely tall," and she is ever "drawing herself up to her full height."  At the "Barley Mow" she would bump her head against the ceiling each time she did this.

The modern athlete is an individual corporation. I'm not quite sure it's very good for sport, or good for team work, or those different things that sport says it's about. This is about business.

If you're building a social product, you're still living in the last century if your product doesn't work on Facebook.

You can work, shop, do everything from home, and I find this unsettling.

One must have some sort of occupation nowadays. If I hadn't my debts I shouldn't have anything to think about.