I like the fact that a modern television and modern drama…

I think modern television shows, with their intricate plots, are stimulating our minds. This is one reason IQs have been going up.

— Alex Tabarrok

Television is much more complex, brain-challenging and involved than it used to be. It's almost impossible to watch a television show from 15 years…

— Alex Tabarrok

... the modern drama, operating through the double channel of dramatist and interpreter, affecting as it does both mind and heart,is the strongest force…

— Emma Goldman

I was at university and I was studying modern drama and studying English, and I just was like, 'I don't wanna be in this…

— Melanie Lynskey

A handful of works in history have had a direct impact on social policy: one or two works of Dickens, some of Zola, 'Uncle…

— Tony Kushner

'Drag Race' has become a staple of modern television for the way it skewers expectations and attitudes about gender, much as a show like…

— Jenna Wortham

It's the demand in many ways of modern television drama - it's very low key and naturalistic, and, generally speaking, the characters that I've…

— Rowan Atkinson

If there is a tendency in modern television I hate, it is the unstoppable march of the dramatic reconstruction to tell the stories of…

— Kevin Macdonald

Reflecting an amalgam of economics, monetary, and psychological factors, the stock market represents possibly the most subtly intricate game invented by man.

— Richard Arnold Epstein

Today, when we look at a brain, we see an intricate network of billions of neurons in constant, crackling communication, a chemical labyrinth that…

— Carl Zimmer

Just as a man is fulfilled through working out the intricate details of solving a problem, a woman is fulfilled through talking about the…

— John Gray

“Insofar as we appreciate order, it is when we perceive it as being accompanied by complexity, when we feel that a variety of elements…

— Alain de Botton

There's music to dance to and make love to, music to cry to. I'm starting from scratch, coming fresh. But my sound still embodies…

— El DeBarge

Music is a lot more like solving an intricate puzzle with moments of pure, random creative bliss... whereas painting is much more purely random…

— Brandon Boyd

My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I…

— Arthur Conan Doyle