Quotes About Modern

Nothing matters more to AA's future welfare than the manner in which we use the colossus of modern communication. Used unselfishly and well, it can produce results surpassing our present imagination.

The failure of modern living is the failure of the imagination...Literature is the royal road that enables us to enter the realm of the imagination.

Modern industry seems to be inefficient to a degree that surpasses one's enduring powers of imagination. Its inefficiency therefore remains unnoticed.

The best historical stories capture the modern imagination because they are, in many senses, still current - part of a continuum.

Loneliness is the price we have to pay for being born in this modern age, so full of freedom, independence, and our own egotistical selves.

That is the crux of modern conservatism - government taking strong measures to foster the attitudes and aptitudes necessary for increased individual independence.

The latest incarnation of Oedipus, the continued romance of Beauty and the Beast, stand this afternoon on the corner of Forty-second Street and Fifth Avenue, waiting for the traffic light to change.

Now there is in a way a renaissance of modern dance - suddenly, it is more respected and discovered.

So I'm reading a book on my new iPad, but can't the iPad read it for me? Do I have to do everything?

That's the fashion. Fast as the speed of light, they say. Ha! It's got no soul, sir, no heart.

But to tar the sacrifices of the Confederate soldier as simple acts of racism, and reduce the battle flag under which he fought to nothing more than the symbol of a racist heritage, is one of the great blasphemies of our modern age.

A hookup is no more of a commitment than jacking yourself off. It's convenient, easy and you can go back to watching your collection of Broadway musicals when you're done.

From Uluru—the great monolith at the heart of the modern continent—it would have been a mere stroll to the beach.

the great mass of humanity distracted by the trappings and fabricated urgency of modern life.

Whether through blind luck or sound business sense, Blum ended up buying the whole set of soup cans for $1,000, paying $100 per month till it was paid off. In 1999 he sold them to the Museum of Modern Art for $7 million in cash and a $7 million tax deduction.

Nová technika stvo?í nového, rovnoprávn?jšího ?lov?ka. Hovo?í pro to veškerý rozum. P?esto je znepokojivé, že se uprost?ed dob?e organizované moderní spole?nosti mohlo zrodit tolik primitivního zla.

Ancient Tragedy is loss of life, modern Tragedy is loss of purpose.

Television she could do without for a night or two, but having no Internet was akin to having no hot water. It just wasn't a livable sort of thing.

You are I are not exactly fashion-forward.

With all the efforts made by modern society to nurture and educate the young, how stupid it is to permit the mothers of young children to spend themselves in the coarser work of the world!

Women today are dealing with both their independence and also the fact that their lives are built around finding and satisfying the romantic models we grew up with.

They were quite mistaken; Dithyrambos, modern philology tells us, is the Divine Leaper, Dancer, and Lifegiver.

For all they have the means of faster travel, faster communication, faster just about everything, they seem to have less time.

They just opened a new Starbucks, in my living room.