Quotes About Modern

I'm all for poetry catching up with technology, and just as there are iTunes, I think we should have iPoems. I mean, people should be able to walk around with their earbuds in and listening to poems on their iPod.

Like many modern poets, I tend to conceal rhymes by placing them in the middle of lines, and to avoid immediate alliteration and assonance in favor of echoes placed later in the poems.

I got an automatic breadmaker. It's the greatest! I get more points for that. You computerize in the results you want, and it's no fail. I'm a modern homemaker.

I think the old classic Porsches are fantastic, with those lovely curved lines, but I don't like the modern ones at all.

I wanted to be Laurence Olivier, basically, to be a great classical actor, and also be able to do modern things.

To me, the fashion and architecture I like are very closely linked. Both should be clean and simple and without embellishment.

The second-class couple is far closer to what the audience is today. It's who we are.

One of the problems in modern comics is that they keep referencing themselves endlessly.

The 'modern' air-traffic-control system, and the FAA itself, was created in the aftermath of one of the most dramatic commercial midair bashes, way back in 1956.

I'm modern because I make the difficult seem easy, and so I can communicate with the whole world.

These days you're not just competing with the tedium, you're competing with the cellphone.

There's so much competition for leisure time, more than ever.

There's not much to complain about in life - apart from bad Wi-Fi, of course!

I'm a complete technophobe. I can't even email.

I still can't set up the ironing-board. A complete Luddite.

We live in a very complex world.

Blogs are the main exception I make in my aversion to complex machinery.

We live in one of the most complex ages for young, professional women.

I actually think 'Sex and the City' helped share how complicated it all is, to be a wife, a mother, and working, and a sexual being.

We understand and know the nature of some components of social media and media these days.

I don't bother with computers, although I have an electronic reader.

You walk into a restaurant these days, and what you see is everyone with their phone next to them. That is terrible. Instead of concentrating on the relationship, on the needs and activities and interests of the other person, they are constantly looking at their phone.

The accusation that we've lost our soul resonates with a very modern concern about authenticity.

I'm not a type of grandmother sitting in a rocking chair. I'm a lot in the theater. I'm a lot at concerts. I'm a lot at friends.' I like to go out for dinner. I don't have to be home one night a week if I don't want to.