Modern Quotes · Page 12

There are no funny lawyers - only funny people who made a career mistake.

— Robert J. White

Optimism and self-pity are the positive and negative poles of modern cowardice.

— Cyril Connolly

I cannot look at modern buildings without thinking of historical ones.

— Kevin McCloud

To be left alone is the most precious thing one can ask of the modern world.

— Anthony Burgess

Even modern wars are fought like revenge tales from some petty grievance.

— Jay Roach

Modern stupidity means not ignorance but the nonthought of received ideas

— Milan Kundera

Modern agriculture is the use of land to convert petroleum into food

— Albert Allen Bartlett

We didn't reinvent the circus. We repackaged it in a much more modern way.

— Guy Laliberte

I'm glad there's been so much laughter in the audience tonight." "But they're not laughing with you. They're laughing at you.

— Terry Wogan

All the modern christian churches have no more authority to preach, baptize, or administer any other ordinance of the gospel than the…

— Orson Pratt

Human ingenuity has given centuries to the goal of ensuring that the human body might move around at an even 68 degrees…

— Lance Morrow

The deer season just opened. A deer hunter in Ventura Country brought in his first man yesterday.

— Will Rogers

We all listened to a lot of recorded music, especially American jazz, modern jazz, and that's where our studies were and our…

— Evan Parker

The truth is, we haven't really figured out yet how artists are going to thrive in modern mass societies. We're all experiments.

— Brad Holland

Rakesh is very strict and he will never use suggestive words in a song. Yes, he wants modern melodies but he wants…

— Rajesh Roshan

The nice thing with Shakespeare from a modern point of view is that a lot of stuff that was tragic for him…

— Ryan North

The Kirtaniyas are in the new wave of younger Kirtan artists bringing the divine practice of Bhakti from the ancient to the…

— Jai Uttal

It's an important point to make that people can't just be invalidated, eradicated, because they don't fit tidily into a box. And…

— Lindsay Duncan

This congestion in the post offices is due to what are technically known as "regulations" but what are really a series of…

— Robert Benchley

Probably no branch of mathematics has experienced a more surprising growth than has... topology... Considered as a most specialized and abstract subject…

— Raymond Louis Wilder

The surrealists, and the modern movement in painting as a whole, seemed to offer a key to the strange postwar world with…

— J. G. Ballard

I am different because I have better schooling, better understanding of the line, gesture, how feet working, positions. They taught me modern…

— Natalia Makarova

“Modernity is kind of a tradition and tradition itself is not a rulebook. It's a dialogue and a dialectical process— just as…

— Sharanya Haridas

The truth is, of course, that history is not completed in modern commerce any more than philosophy is perfected in political economy.…

— James Buchan

Poverty when coupled with creativeness is usually free of frustration. This is true of the poor artisan skilled in his trade and…

— Eric Hoffer

The crisis [the Great Depression] discovered a great man in Franklin Roosevelt...None too soon he has carried America forward to the second…

— H. G. Wells

Academia is alas full of special interests and specialists who presumed it was possible to "leapfrog" over this or that entire line…

— Kenny Smith

Big Pharma needs sick people to prosper. Patients, not healthy people, are their customers. If everybody was cured of a particular illness…

— James Morcan

I remember sitting in this pool hall with Stone and Chris and we watched - this really old, really classic pool hall…

— Eddie Vedder

In our learning, let us not neglect the fountain of revelation. The scriptures and the words of modern-day apostles and prophets are…

— Dieter F. Uchtdorf

There is no patent recipe for getting good citizenship. You get it by applying the old, old rules of decent conduct, the…

— Theodore Roosevelt

I feel like we've inherited modern infrastructure, and I could run away from it and become a full-time activist, or I can…

— Ellen Page

We want to sound modern, but we're still influenced by ska, reggae and Eighties U.K. bands.

— Tony Kanal

If we become ill, modern medicine can work healing miracles.

— Joseph B. Wirthlin

I don't think about music as being new or modern. I just play.

— Coleman Hawkins

The failure of modern evangelicalism is the failure to understand the holiness of God.

— Anonymous

Certainly the modern poets I cherish most are disturbing spirits; they do not come to coo.

— Stanley Kunitz

Flight is the only truly new sensation than men have achieved in modern history.

— James Dickey

We [Americans] are game-playing, fun-loving creatures; we are the otters of the universe.

— Richard Bach

Think how modern economics presents work. Only labour that contributes to growth counts.

— Guy Standing