Quotes About Modern

Photography suits the temper of this age -- of active bodies and minds. It is a perfect medium for one whose mind is teeming with ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who would be slowed down by painting or sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts decisively, accurately.

Now is the age of anxiety.

Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders.

Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem - in my opinion - to characterize our age.

Perfection of means and confusion of ends seem to characterize our age.

He to whom the present is the only thing that is present, knows nothing of the age in which he lives.

We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.

We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police.

I am the literary equivalent of a Big Mac and Fries.

Sleep is so cute when it tries to compete with the internet.

My graduation speech: I would like to thank wikipedia, copy and paste. I'm out peeps.

It is the woman - nearly always - in spite of all the advances of modern feminism, who still takes responsibility for the bulk of the chores, as well as doing her paid job. This is true even in households where men try to be unselfish and to do their share.

From "Modern Man" in Every Lyric Tells A Story His life is run by telephones and clocks He changes his women, like he changes his socks He plays to win and sometimes he plays rough Knows a lot about sex but not much about love

strained time-ridden faces, distracted from distraction by distraction.

The Carters won fame—if not fortune—because they could recast the traditional music of rural America for a modern audience. And like their music, the Carters themselves had to negotiate the gap between the insular culture of preindustrial Appalachia and the newly modern America.

Dead IS so LAST year

The car has become... an article of dress without which we feel uncertain, unclad, and incomplete.

The car has become an article of dress without which we feel uncertain, unclad, and incomplete in the urban compound.

I would say that the writers I like and trust have at the base of their prose something called the English sentence. An awful lot of modern writing seems to me to be a depressed use of language. Once, I called it "vow-of-poverty prose." No, give me the king in his countinghouse. Give me Updike.

Much modern prose is praised for its terseness, its scrupulous avoidance of curlicue, etcetera. But I don't feel the deeper rhythm there. I don't think these writers are being terse out of choice. I think they are being terse because it's the only way they can write.

There is an ancient belief that the gods love the obscure and hate the obvious. Without benefit of divinity, modern men of similar persuasion draft provisions of the Internal Revenue Code. Section 341 is their triumph.

Like a modern counterpart of a tightly-corseted Victorian, she needed to unbutton herself, learn the act of relaxation.

State, nation, and citizen are three essentially modern concepts and non of them easily fits the British experience.

State, nation, and citizen are three essentially modern concepts and none of them easily fits the British experience.