Even with all our technology and the inventions that make modern life so much easier than it once was, it takes just… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“Function? Why function? Who needs more functioning human beings? It's really quite astounding, if you ask me, the sheer quantity of normal… — James Greer Copy Share Image
The three main extra-rational activities in modern life are religion, war, and love. all these are extra-rational, but love is not anti-rational,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
In modern life, we hide behind ourselves. In Shakespeare, there's nowhere left to hide. It's life, larger than life, and every actor… — Ray Fearon Copy Share Image
In the end, the real wisdom of menopause may be in questioning how fun or even sane this chore wheel called modern… — Sandra Tsing Loh Copy Share Image
The ablest men in all walks of modern life are men of faith. Most of them have much more faith than they… — Bruce Barton Copy Share Image
The amount of quaint, authentic, rustic charm varies inversely with the pounds per square inch of water pressure in the shower. — Frank Mankiewicz Copy Share Image
Abstract art is uniquely modern. It is a fundamentally romantic response to modern life - rebellious, individualistic, unconventional, sensitive, irritable. — Robert Motherwell Copy Share Image
People at all levels and in all roles in organizations are wrestling with the challenges of modern life, trying to find ways… — Stewart D. Friedman Copy Share Image
I can tell you that in my modern life I enjoy language. I enjoy words, their meaning, what they sound like to… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Ours is a culture based on excess, on overproduction; the result is a steady loss of sharpness in our sensory experience. All… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The experience of the gangster as an experience of art is universal to Americans. There is almost nothing we understand better or… — Robert Warshow Copy Share Image
“Modern life assaults us with an infinite range of things we could do, we would love to do, or some people tell… — Os Guinness Copy Share Image
I always thought that in the countries that the modernity kicks in later, it seems that everything changes on the surface, the… — Asghar Farhadi Copy Share Image
“I have discussed how the goal of feeling happy is unusual; its not like other goals such as learning to bake a… — Jonathan Rottenberg Copy Share Image
The resources of nature, like those of spirit, are running out, and all that a conscientious man can aspire to be is… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
Real Men no longer drive Corvettes. Despite being able to squander gas with the best of them, even today's least enlightened Real… — Bruce Feirstein Copy Share Image
Modern life is so thin and shallow and fake. I look forward to when developers go bankrupt, Japan gets poorer and wild… — Hayao Miyazaki Copy Share Image
“What a sad existence that must be—so focused on the next thing you’re doing, the next place you’re going, that you forget… — Mikki Brammer Copy Share Image
I love to watch those old movies on late-night television, particularly when a couple get up from a champagne dinner in a… — Robert Orben Copy Share Image
“Modern life is a fiction; it feels like nothing ever changes, but when you examine its fabric, its zeros and ones, it's… — Catherine Prasifka Copy Share Image
“The one that’s different often has the odds stacked against them but usually ends up with the biggest rewards so it’s always… — Torron-Lee Dewar Copy Share Image
Columbus and his men, they say, Conveyed the virus hither Whereby my features rot away And vital powers wither; Yet had they… — Richard Wilbur Copy Share Image
Have you ever known anyone who bought a fruitcake for himself? Of course not. They are purchased as Christmas gifts, mostly for… — Phyllis Diller Copy Share Image
Video piracy is among the most irritating aspects of modern life for those who work in the film business. Adverts telling you… — Victoria Coren Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Sometime we forget to value the small things, that inspire us more than the large! We should learn from daily than planning… — Vikram Roy Copy Share Image
“I like walking because it is slow, and I suspect that the mind, like the feet, works at about three miles an… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“The Dopamine Paradigm by Stewart Stafford Never so connected, Yet, never further apart, A crowded room's isolation, An aspic suitors' false start.… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
Everytime a lawyer writes something, he is not writing for posterity, he is writing something so that endless others of his craft… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
It's an essay that Sigmund Freud wrote about E.T.A. Hoffman's short story called "The Sandman" where someone mistakes an inanimate object for… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
Although we will hate and fight the machines, we will be supplanted anyway, and rightly so, for the intelligent machines to which… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“We want our movies instantly. We order our groceries at lunchtime and expect them to arrive in time for dinner. We punch… — John Dickerson Copy Share Image
One aspect of modern life which has gone far to stifle men is the rapid growth of tremendous corporations. Enormous spiritual sacrifices… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
My brand of comedy is taking a serious approach to silliness. Small moments of modern life and human behavior make me laugh.… — Jonathan Krisel Copy Share Image
When I used to teach creative writing, I would tell the students to make their characters want something right away - even… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“the elements of a modern creation myth are all around us. It is harmful because it contributes to the subtle but pervasive… — David Christian Copy Share Image
“It didn’t come from the Government down. There was no dictum, no declaration, no censorship, to start with, no! Technology, mass exploitation,… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Modern life was so fleeting. You could spend all day reading blogs, jerking off, sending e-mails, watching reality television, playing video games,… — Aaron Goldfarb Copy Share Image
Writing is both bomb and bomb disposal-a necessary shattering of cliche and assumption, and a powerful defusing of the soul-destroying messages of… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Wonder is a very subtle, precious emotion, often lost in the gross hustle and bustle of modern life. When we feel wonder,… — Doug Henning Copy Share Image