Quotes About Modern

In the kind of fast-food world that we live in, where everything's so fast paced and it's, 'Look over here! Look over there,' we don't really take the time to sit down and enjoy music - or anything else, for that matter.

I've never used an app.

Apparently my taste is that of a 13-year-old girl. Not really. But my taste is commercial.

Apps have made it easier to meet people but harder to connect.

Great architecture of the past was always clear. SFMOMA is still a simple building to understand.

A thoroughbred," "a pure pedigree," these figures of speech have replaced the "heavenly angel" and Ossianic nomenclature; the old mythology of love is extinct, doomed to perish by modern dandyism.

N'était-ce pas le seul dieu moderne auquel on ait foi, l'Argent dans toute sa puissance, exprimé par une seule physionomie ? Les doux sentiments de la vie n'occupaient là qu'une place secondaire, ils animaient trois cœurs purs, ceux de Nanon, d'Eugénie et sa mère. Encore, combien d'ignorance dans leur naïveté !

I avoid talking before the youth of the age as I would dancing before them: for if one's tongue don't move in the steps of the day, and thinks to please by its old graces, it is only an object of ridicule.

Quite a few of these know nothing about quantum mechanics; others understand the physics but put a highly tendentious spin on it. A good corrective for these is Victor J. Stenger's The Unconscious Quantum: Metaphysics in Modern Physics and Cosmology (Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 1995

I do believe that it takes a strong dose of alienation to make a good artist or writer in the modern world. You can't be too well-adjusted and still have anything interesting to say.

In the past a theory could get by on its beauty; in the modern world a successful theory has to work for a living.

Like all tools, modern technology has produced some wonderful moments in music and also some horrors.

The time has arrived when those who favor fitting laws to modern needs in order to correct and cure social and industrial injustice must face their problems squarely and fairly. Everybody knows that Supreme Court decisions by a bare majority have for years been thrown as impassable barriers in the way of the solemn and well-matured legislative plans supported by the people.

To be modern means to like antique furniture - and youthful neurosis.

the activity of modern poets stands under the decree of necessity, as though they were building a pyramid, the monstruos residence of a dead King or an unborn God.

Producing the prefect concrete has become a kind of philosopher's stone of the late 20th century.

Bottled water is a triumph of modern consumerism and marketing.

The room of the modern man is stark, but in its simplicity exudes wealth and sophistication. There is just a bed or futon and an iPad. None of the old-time accoutrements which signified intelligence, artistic interest, or a curiosity about the world are evident.

So I said, like, whazz new, I mean, like new new, not old new, yuh know, like last-week new

Modern policing fell into that trap, heading straight for technology – computers and CCTV – to replace old skills and the occasional inspired guess or piece of intuition.

The challenge as we saw in the Nigerian project was to restructure the economy decisively in the direction of a modern free market as an appropriate environment for cultivation of freedom and democracy and the natural emergence of a new social order.

In Acuff's hands, country music was just that: music for the country people of the South and Southeast. He bridged the gulf between ancient string band music and the modern era, and came to epitomize country music's innate conservatism.

As good be out of the world as out of the fashion.

No different from others of my age am I for I feel the pressures of the age in which I live: that of attraction, wealth and popularity.