Quotes on Modern

Black-and-white always looks modern, whatever that word means.

By wrecking something, it's always reinventing. All modern movements in art and music wrecked what came before, in a way - and surprised the cooler generation that was one step ahead. That's how you get ahead.

In modern novels, there is no one I want to copy. My style 'is a poor thing, but it is my own.'

The Arab world needs a modern version of the old transnational media so citizens can be informed about global events. More important, we need to provide a platform for Arab voices.

In the glad old days, before the rise of modern morbidities...it used to be thought a disadvantage to be misunderstood.

Philosophers have not kept up with modern developments in science. Particularly physics.

One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.

There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.

In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.

The whole philosophy of modern times is to dissolve distinctions between individuals and deal with them as large collections of people. It's essentially self-interested on the part of authority.

The modern pantheist not only sees the god in everything, he takes photographs of it.

Capital punishment is against the best judgment of modern criminology and, above all, against the highest expression of love in the nature of God.

One of the most heartening phenomena in today's Britain is the great diversity of the modern nerd - the nerd is out and proud, and while she may love 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' merchandise more than is strictly warranted, she is in every way to be cherished as an exemplar of cosmopolitanism and tolerance.

Faith in the possibility of science, generated antecedently to the development of modern scientific theory, is an unconscious derivative from medieval theology.

To the Ancients, Friendship seemed the happiest and most fully human of all loves... The modern world in comparison, ignores it.

The Great War differed from all ancient wars in the immense power of the combatants and their fearful agencies of destruction, and from all modern wars in the utter ruthlessness with which it was fought.

More than half of modern culture depends upon what one shouldn't read.

Black-and-whit e always looks modern, whatever that word means.

For me accessories create and define a woman's personal style. The bag she carries, the watch on her wrist, her jewelry, her sunglasses, her shoes all define a look that is her signature. For Spring 2014, my accessory collections are about a clean, graphic boldness creating a new dimension redefining modern classics.

Brothers and sisters, with the blessings of modern technology, we can express gratitude and joy about God’s great plan for His children in a way that can be heard not only around our workplace but around the world. Sometimes a single phrase of testimony can set events in motion that affect someone’s life for eternity.

Art cannot be modern. Art is primordially eternal.