Quotes About Modern

I have always maintained that the one important phenomenon presented by modern society is - the enormous prosperity of Fools.

The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant people are.

Outside the windows the cars swept past continuously, out of town, into town, lights ablaze, radios at full throttle. "I wither slowly in thine arms," he read. "Here at the quiet limit of the world," and repeated to himself: "Here at the quiet limit of the world. Here at the quiet limit of the world"… as a monk will repeat a simple pregnant text, over and over again in prayer.

The enemy at last was plain in view, huge and hateful, all disguise cast off. It was the Modern Age in arms. Whatever the outcome there was a place for him in that battle." This was the belief of Guy Crouchback in 1939 when he heard the news of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Treaty. What follows is the story of his attempt to find his "place in that battle.

By God, I may be old-fashioned in my ideas, but women run around too much these days to suit me. They meet all kinds of crazy fish.

It's worse in the case of newspapers. Any rich, unprogressive old party with that particularly grasping, acquisitive form of mentality known as financial genius can own a paper that is the intellectual meat and drink of thousands of tired, hurried men, men too involved in the business of modern living to swallow anything but predigested food. p. 201

one slice in a long white cake of apartment houses.

snub-nosed motor-boat

In modern life the world belongs to the stupid, the insensitive and the disturbed. The right to live and triumph is today earned with the same qualifications one requires to be interned in a madhouse: amorality, hypomania and an incapacity for thought.

The modern hero is the outsider. His experience is rootless. He can go anywhere. He belongs nowhere. Being alien to nothing, he ends up being alienated from any type of community based on common tastes and interests. The borders of his country are the sides of his skull.

The reader may not see [these meanings], but they have their effect on him nonetheless. This is the way the modern novelist sinks, or hides his theme

Technology is fascinating.

Tinder's fascinating to me. I wish it was around when I was single and not on television because I can't imagine doing it when you're on TV.

The New is not a fashion, it is a value.

I like to think, hopefully, people agree that I'm fashionable.

Scandinavia can be quite fashionable.

I think the digital camera would record that information too fast for me.

In the tech-savvy, real-time world we all live in today, everything is faster.

Action movies today are going to so fast, you can't say you're going to do everything faster and faster.

You can celebrate the female form in comfort. We left corsets behind in the dark ages, so why bring them back now?

I consider myself a feminist living in a post-feminist era.

People want development, modern thinking. They want to encourage and support research in agriculture and other fields.

I have like fifteen televisions in my house.

I wasn't like a Fifties dad.