“The world moves faster than it used to, and I wonder how people have any time to admire the smaller joys of… — Mikki Brammer Copy Share Image
There was an old Woman who lived in a shoe She had so many children Her government subsidy check came to $4,892. — Sam Levenson Copy Share Image
I don't care if my lettuce has DDT on it, just as long as it's crisp. — Jorma Kaukonen Copy Share Image
The trouble with the lost generation is that it didn't get lost enough. — James Thurber Copy Share Image
Depression: the healthy suspicion that modern life has no meaning and that modern society is absurd and alienating. — Neel Burton Copy Share Image
As a young boy, scouting gave me a confidence and camaraderie that is hard to find in modern life. — Bear Grylls Copy Share Image
“It is the key to modern life. If you are immune to boredom, there is literally nothing you cannot accomplish” — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Football season: The only time of the year when a man can walk down the street with a blond on one arm… — Bennett Cerf Copy Share Image
“There is a danger of developing a blanket distaste for modern life which could have its attractions but lack the all-important images… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Stress is the trash of modern life - we all generate it but if you don't dispose of it properly, it will… — Danzae Pace Copy Share Image
Advertisement is an absolute necessity of modern life, and if it can be made beautiful as well as obvious, so much the… — Aubrey Beardsley Copy Share Image
The most disturbing and wasteful emotions in modern life, next to fright, are those which are associated with the idea of blame,… — Marilyn Ferguson Copy Share Image
“Apollinaire said a poet should be 'of his time.' I say objects of the Digital Age belong in newspapers, not literature. When… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
They say atomic rad-i-ation can hurt your reproductive organs. My answer is, so can a hockey stick. But we don't stop building… — Johnny Carson Copy Share Image
I'm easily persuaded that a really good novelist who gets inside somebody else's head could be serving a valuable purpose. I enjoy… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
There are no private lives. This a most important aspect of modern life. That one of the biggest transformations we have seen… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
Success doesn't have a downside for me. I'm busy, but I've always been busy whatever job I've had. My very first job… — Victoria Derbyshire Copy Share Image
“Depressed people become unable to remember happy times, or times when they even had a normal mood. The very concept of a… — Jonathan Rottenberg Copy Share Image
Now, because men of our contemporary age are caught up in the ascetic view of a life-denying religious system, but in spite… — Guido von List Copy Share Image
I wouldn't say that processed food, ready meals and even takeaways aren't relevant to modern life, it's just that over the past… — Jamie Oliver Copy Share Image
I tend to like the way poets form communities. Writing can be lonely after all. Modern life can be lonely. Poets do… — Rae Armantrout Copy Share Image
“All these people are suffering without the tools to end their own suffering. And we who have the tools refuse to do… — Sally Rooney Copy Share Image
While it might be true that our reality would suggest that more writers would address these elemental issues of modern life -… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
“Much of modern life is based upon a false logic, a logic that assumes that happiness and well-being come from financial prosperity.… — Nic Marks Copy Share Image
“A piece of plastic stole an entire species— In lobbies, in the bathroom, in an elevator, Ideas, reactions, and silent contemplations, During… — Karl Kristian Flores Copy Share Image
Everything in modern city life is calculated to keep man from entering into himself and thinking about spiritual things. Even with the… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“Modern life seems to recede further and further away from nature, and closely connected with this fact we seem to be losing… — D.T. Suzuki Copy Share Image
“Technology, while providing us many advantages, encourages us to race through our days so that we no longer know what we'd do… — Kathleen A. Kendall-Tackett Copy Share Image
“How could you tell how much of it was lies? It might be true that the average human being was better off… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“His story also demonstrates an obscure truth. Having a plan, any plan, means you know on some level you're going to fail,… — Sam Munson Copy Share Image
“From the middle of a tomb whose lights burn only for survival…our tired bodies finally understand and obey our beating hearts. Meet… — Jimi Hendrix Copy Share Image
What's all this fuss about plutonium? How can something named after a Disney character be dangerous? — Johnny Carson Copy Share Image
I'd rather be a football coach. That way you only lose eleven games a year. — Abe Lemons Copy Share Image
“Preaching the word of God and doing the work of evil. That's how it's done these days.” — Jeff Ampolini Copy Share Image
“One is sure to be disappointed if one tries to get romance out of modern life.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Modern life can create great confusion and we can forget that humanity is an integral component in the natural world.” — Ray Mears Copy Share Image
We are in danger of developing a cult of the Common Man, which means a cult of mediocrity. — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
Ugly is very popular this year...I had a feeling these clothes were deigned by someone who didn't like women. — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
