Primitivism has become the vulgar cliché of much modern art and speculation. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Modern marriage has lost its meaning--consequently it is being abolished. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“(to me, the hallmark of the modern mind is that it loves to wander from its subject) I” — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
The advertisement is one of the most interesting and difficult of modern literary forms. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The great modern novel of the comic-pathetic illusion of freedom is Confessions of Zeno . — Italo Svevo Copy Share Image
It's hard to say what the Founding Fathers would think of the modern presidency. — John Dickerson Copy Share Image
You should be allowed to be a modern city dweller and still care about the environment. — Graham Hill Copy Share Image
A modern fleet of ships does not so much make use of the sea as exploit a highway. — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
If you want to write something of length, however modern and radical, you must live the life of an elderly gentleman of… — Arthur Smith Copy Share Image
Ecclesiastes said that "all is vanity," Most modern preachers say the same, or show it By their examples of true Christianity: In… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Among modern occupations, only cult leaders and TV weathermen rival the technological visionary's ability to retain credibility despite all evidence to the… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
I really wanted to do 'Modern Family,' and I really liked the script, and I liked the people. — Craig T. Nelson Copy Share Image
There's probably no concept in theology more repugnant to modern America than the idea of divine wrath. — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
Most of the books that feature supernatural characters blending with the modern world and are usually set in big cities. — Charlaine Harris Copy Share Image
The problem with a lot of modern recipes is that you have a great list of ingredients and you only need a… — John Whaite Copy Share Image
For Blanc & Eclare, we go by the motto 'modern classic,' and that kind of comes from me because I don't like… — Jessica Jung Copy Share Image
Primitive times are lyrical, ancient times epical, modern times dramatic. The ode sings of eternity, the epic imparts solemnity tohistory, the drama… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Libertarians are essentially what the Republicans were 30 years ago. Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan. They'd all fit more… — Drew Carey Copy Share Image
I started writing novels while an undergraduate student, in an attempt to make sense of the city of Edinburgh, using a detective… — Ian Rankin Copy Share Image
I had been fascinated with Islam since college - particularly how it could inspire such fervor in our modern age and move… — Brad Thor Copy Share Image
For the modern physicist, reality is the whole thing, past and future joined in a single history. The sensation of now is… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
The artist is always the servant, and is perpetually trying to pay for the gift that has been given to him as… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
The new revolution in cooking can be viewed in two ways. One is that you can take any traditional food and apply… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
The violin is very beautiful. Some people relate it as the shape of a lady, but, whether you like it or not,… — Sirena Huang Copy Share Image
In order to get one of the greatest inventions of the modern age, in other words, we thought we needed the solitary… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Humans in modern societies are driven by a perhaps desperate hope that they might find some way of mobilizing their theoretical and… — Raymond Geuss Copy Share Image
Religion is a valid inquiry; whether society accepts it or rejects it, it doesn't matter. Man is a religious animal and is… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The culture and educational system of the contemporary West are based almost exclusively upon the training of the reasoning brain and, to… — Kallistos Ware Copy Share Image
Half of one per cent of the U.S. budget is space-related stuff. In Canada, we spend more on dog foodScreen Shot 2015-08-19… — David Saint-Jacques Copy Share Image
As modern physics started with the Newtonian revolution, so modern philosophy starts with what one might call the Cartesian Catastrophe. The catastrophe… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
I think in the modern world we really need to have movie theaters or places we can go in and rejuvenate ourselves.… — Peter Stormare Copy Share Image
Jordan is many different things and there's many different parts of it. We don't ever really get to see a modern Arab… — Cherien Dabis Copy Share Image
A nation's ability to fight a modern war is as good as its technological ability. — Frank Whittle Copy Share Image
The Olympic Games of the Modern Era began in 1896 in the city of Athens. — Bill Toomey Copy Share Image
Modern dance isn't anything except one thing in my mind: the freedom of women in America. — Martha Graham Copy Share Image
