Most modern painters work from a different source. They work from within. — Jackson Pollock Copy Share Image
I've often been flabbergasted by modern pharmaceutical ads on television. The list of side effects for some maladies often sound worse than… — Kevin Hearne Copy Share Image
Everything in modern civilization is based on this concept of time which is not really valid. — Jose Arguelles Copy Share Image
All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff...Basically what people want to hear is: I love… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
The modern meaning of life's end-when does it end? How does it end? How should it end? What is the value of… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
We who preach the gospel must not think of ourselves as public relations agents sent to establish good will between Christ and… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
...Jesus Christ might simply have returned to his carpentry following the use of modern psychiatric treatments. — William Sargant Copy Share Image
The origins of the modern West are often seen in the Enlightenment of the seventeenth and eighteenth century, but the roots of… — Ibn Warraq Copy Share Image
We regard as 'scientific' a method based on deep analysis of facts, theories, and views, presupposing unprejudiced, unfearing open discussion and conclusions.… — Andrei Sakharov Copy Share Image
I go straight for Seinfeld, Modern Family, Friends, and Golden Girls. Those are my pillars of strength on TV. — Sara Bareilles Copy Share Image
Modern man thinks he loses something - time - when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
I went to Concord, a young woman from the backwoods, firm in belief that Emerson was the first of living men. He… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Toothbrush mustache was first introduced in Germany by Americans, who turned up with it at the end of the 19th century… — Rich Cohen Copy Share Image
A handwritten, personal letter has become a genuine modern-day luxury, like a child's pony ride. — Shana Alexander Copy Share Image
I really didn't know what to think about the veil. Deep down I was very religious but as a family we were… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
In modern America, anyone who attempts to write satirically about the events of the day finds it difficult to concoct a situation… — Calvin Trillin Copy Share Image
Now I am quietly waiting for the catastrophe of my personality to seem beautiful again, and interesting, and modern. — Frank O'Hara Copy Share Image
Today's Uncle Tom doesn't wear a handkerchief on his head. This modern, twentieth-century Uncle Thomas now often wears a top hat. He's… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
The aim of modern propaganda is no longer to modify ideas, but to provoke action. — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
The modern hero-deed must be that of questing to bring to light again the lost Atlantis of the co-ordinated Soul. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
At the emergence of the modern novel with Rabelais and Cervantes, all kinds of things were possible in a long-form prose work.… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
AIDS is a plague - numerically, statistically and by any definition known to modern public health - though no one in authority… — Larry Kramer Copy Share Image
Be versed in ancient lore, and familiarize yourself with the modern; then may you become teachers. — Confucius Copy Share Image
Modern pictures banish depiction for interfering with the workings of paint. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Flaubert's famous sentence, "Madame Bovary, c'est moi" ("Madame Bovary, she is me"), in reality means, " Madame Bovary, c'est nous" ("Madame Bovary,… — Sophie Barthes Copy Share Image
The nice thing with Shakespeare from a modern point of view is that a lot of stuff that was tragic for him… — Ryan North Copy Share Image
Mirrors have come to mean much more than the original 'looking glass.' They are now a part of the decorative scheme of… — Dorothy Draper Copy Share Image
The closest modern equivalent to the Homeric hero is the ace fighter pilot. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
That's a hard one because right now it seems that all I'm watching is Teletoons and Nickelodeon. You know what I love?… — Teryl Rothery Copy Share Image
Once you do a show like 'Modern Family,' which has been an amazing thing, and I'm so happy about it, it does… — Ty Burrell Copy Share Image
The problem is that, in a world of floating exchange rates, as Italy was before the euro, if one country is subjected… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Ronald Reagan was long thought to be the most conservative of Republicans. And by any standard today he is the most popular… — Mark McKinnon Copy Share Image
No idea is so antiquitated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not some day… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
One of the most heartening phenomena in today's Britain is the great diversity of the modern nerd - the nerd is out… — Will Self Copy Share Image
Many modern philosophers claim that probability is relation between an hypothesis and the evidence for it. — Ian Hacking Copy Share Image
It felt—nearly twenty-five hundred years after Hippocrates had naively coined the overarching term karkinos—that modern oncology was hardly any more sophisticated in… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
If any reader has lost a loved one or is afraid of death, modern physics says: 'Be comforted, you and they shall… — Frank Tipler Copy Share Image
