Quotes About Modern

Cliff, a cell phone isn't a toy. It's a very lucky technical miracle for all of us. It's a prime weapon against our essential loneliness. I can't say I've ever felt that lonely.

S]torytelling, in ancient and modern practice, is always a contemplation of the experience of time passing. A story depends on things not standing still, on the built-in condition of impermanence.

She understood how a world jammed with phones, email, and faxes could still leave you feeling utterly alone.

No job is complete until the selfie is posted.

Back then, work revolved around life. Today, life revolves around work.

Go into the auto mechanic, you've got to know computers to be able to work on the cars.

Even in modern art, artists have used methods based on calculation, inasmuch as these elements, alongside those of a more personal and emotional nature, give balance and harmony to any work of art.

I'll take the stairs instead of the elevator, or when I'm on a phone call, I'll do squats or pace the room when I'm talking. We're modern women! We have to figure out how to make it work, right?

Your basic extended family today includes your ex-husband or -wife, your ex's new mate, your new mate, possibly your new mate's ex and any new mate that your new mate's ex has acquired.

Real family values have gone down the drain in modern families.

Facebook should have a relationship status saying; 'Friends with benefits' since that's all anyone is anymore.

A true bad bi... keep her hair and nails done and got her own money.

I plead contemporary insanity.

My iPhone suggests GPS when I'm trying to write GOD. I think we are finally synced.

Optimism and self-pity are the positive and negative poles of modern cowardice.

In science, read by preference the newest works. In literature, read the oldest. The classics are always modern.

I'm thinking the single life isn't what it used to be!

The awkward moment when your iPhone battery lasts longer than most relationships these days.

You might want to intellectualize your intentions, "I'm doing an allegory on the state of modern man in relation to the inherent dignity of the human soul." That's great. Save it for the interview after your movie is a hit. To write it, think in terms of one man, not mankind. Ask yourself, "Suppose event x happens to him. What would my hero do about it?

Modern reality has got such a hold on us that... when we attempt to reconstruct the ancient days in our thoughts...the minor events of our lives tear us away from our meditations, and... thrust us back into our personal [problems]

But I, for my part, am convinced that in this respect one can have faith in modern art. The fact that I have a definite belief about art makes me sure of what I want in my own work, and I shall try to reach it even at the risk of my own life.

I can't remember my PIN number for my debit card or my Facebook password. The digital age sucks sometimes.

In modern times this millennial aspiration takes the form of equality--of liberty, equality, and fraternity. This is also fanaticism. True equality has never been and never can be on earth.

This transformation of competition into monopoly is one of the most important—if not the most important—phenomena of modern capitalist economy,