Quotes About Modern

I like living in the 20th century... to me the world has never been more beautiful. I am trying to paint the real world I live in, as beautifully as I can with my own eyes.

perhaps all this modern ferment of what's known as 'social conscience' or 'civic responsibility' isn't a result of the sense of duty, but of the old, old craving for beauty.

Beauty, therefore, for the modern and postmodern artist has become a highly dubious metaphor for a discredited belief system.

Novelty is an essential attribute of the beautiful.

There have been advances in the technology of beauty that I think are great. & you know what? Use it.

The best thing about modern living is anaesthesia.

The integral vision embodies an attempt to take the best of both worlds, ancient and modern. But that demands a critical stance willing to reject unflinchingly the worst of both as well.

Nowadays, it's hard to find the best horror and to be interesting and to be afraid of it!

In the age of the individual's liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew.

The starving poet business is no good nowadays.

Modern business must have its finger continuously on the public pulse. It must understand the changes in the public mind and be prepared to interpret itself fairly and eloquently to changing opinion.

There has been an effect of business rap on the output of today's rap music. But I don't think that's the modern day rapper's fault.

I get the sense many people are unsure about their digital media allocation. Even those who believe they are progressive in their thinking wonder if they have got it right.

The phone is the new tamagotchi. We have to feed it daily with energy to keep it alive.

The people who are always hankering loudest for some golden yesteryear usually drive new cars.

The modern world is a crowd of very rapid racing cars all brought to a standstill and stuck in a block of traffic.

The car, the furniture, the wife, the children - everything has to be disposable. Because you see the main thing today is - shopping.

All dash to and fro in motor cars. Familiar with the roads and settled nowhere.

The modern suburb is the product of the car, the five-day week, and the "bankers' hours" of the masses.

The only thing I do on a computer is play Texas Hold 'Em, really. Obviously my cell phone is a computer. My car is a computer. I'm on computers every day without actively seeking them out.

I'm afraid I can't do the things you want me to do because people don't go in much for sorcery nowadays. I don't think they'd be very interested.

Denied the need to work by her husband's income, she pursued occupation. Hers was the stocky, tireless physique of a peasant woman bowed over a cornfield in some nineteenth century painting; transposed into her large modern house in this tranquil commuterland, she seemed to dart hither and thither with the undirected pent-up energy of a clockwork toy. A prettier woman would have taken up adultery.

the great advantage of really contemporary fiction is that one finds oneself mirror on every page

Modern management and modern enterprise could not exist without the knowledge base that developed societies have built. But equally, it is management, and management alone, that makes effective all this knowledge and these knowledgeable people. The emergence of management has converted knowledge from social ornament and luxury into the true capital of any economy. Not