Modern poverty is not the poverty that was blest in the Sermon on the Mount. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
David Attenborough's 'Life' series is phenomenal. He's a wonderful modern soothsayer. — Dervla Kirwan Copy Share Image
The one thing you know we won't do is, literally, 'Modern Warfare 2.' — Anthony Russo Copy Share Image
Modern civilization is a product of an energy binge. Binges often end in hangovers. — Alfred W. Crosby Copy Share Image
In modern football, you need to make decisions quickly and play fast. — Wissam Ben Yedder Copy Share Image
Like all tools, modern technology has produced some wonderful moments in music and also some horrors. — Hugh Hopper Copy Share Image
The blues is also existential and offers a sense of mature reflection that enabled it to be the leitmotif of modern life. — Lewis Gordon Copy Share Image
The essence of modern dictatorship is the combination of one-dimensional, flat thinking with power and terror. — Theodor Haecker Copy Share Image
What makes a book great, a so-called classic, it its quality of always being modern, of its author, though he be long… — Lawrence Clark Powell Copy Share Image
The more country that my music gets, the less it fits into the country world today. It's almost like there needs to… — Kacey Musgraves Copy Share Image
Where are the real sources of human dignity, freedom and modern democracy, if not in the concept of infinity to which all… — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
The walls that fence our fields, as well as modern Rome, and not less the Parthenon itself, are all built of ruins. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I don't much like Singapore. It's very big, very modern and very urbanised. As a rule, I prefer older places where you… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
I think in a lot of romantic comedies it ends with a kiss, and I feel like in modern day relationships, and… — Elizabeth Meriwether Copy Share Image
Iran is not a make-believe country. It is a real country populated by some 75 million people - real people; including, I… — Bob Barr Copy Share Image
The secret of genius is to suffer no fiction to exist for us; to realize all that we know; in the high… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The Reagan Administration, generally regarded as having conducted the most successful Transition of modern times, had managed during the election campaign to… — Richard V. Allen Copy Share Image
I don't cook - I can cook - but I'm not very good. I like being asked over for dinner, because she… — Mark Mothersbaugh Copy Share Image
Why must ancients, and provided the same talent, be better than modern authors? Free to exploit the vast realm of the simpleand… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
In Henry Adams, I discovered not only the prototype of the modern thinker but also someone who is more interesting: a viper-toothed,… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Film writing and concert writing are two very different things. In film writing I am serving the film and it tells you… — Aaron Zigman Copy Share Image
Since the Greeks the predominant attitude of thinkers towards intellectual activity was to glorify it insofar as (like aesthetic activity) it finds… — Julien Benda Copy Share Image
To do justice to modern technology's rigid linear structure, to the lofty gridwork of cranes and bridges, to the dynamism of machines… — Albert Renger-Patzsch Copy Share Image
For 500 years the West patented six killer applications that set it apart. The first to download them was Japan. Over the… — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
I believe the medium of film is one of the most powerful tools in the modern era to create positive social change.… — Sam Branson Copy Share Image
Modern schools and universities push students into habits of depersonalized learning, alienation from nature and sexuality, obedience to hierarchy, fear of authority,… — Arthur Evans Copy Share Image
Perhaps there may come into my art also, no less than into my life, a still deeper note, one of greater unity… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
A modern factory reaches perhaps almost the limit of horror. Everybody in it is constantly harassed and kept on edge by the… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
It is necessary for us to explain the involuntary repugnance we possess for the nature and personality of the Jews. The Jews… — Richard Wagner Copy Share Image
If you say 'Good Morning' in America and it's five past twelve you end up with a lawsuit. — Bernie Ecclestone Copy Share Image
Modern capitalism has created a world totally different from anything known before. — Lesslie Newbigin Copy Share Image
I realized the modern equivalent of a broadsword duel would be a chainsaw battle. — Panos Cosmatos Copy Share Image
Modern Kerala is a product of the selfless social service of great visionaries. — Pinarayi Vijayan Copy Share Image
Twentieth-century American poetry has been one of the glories of modern literature. — Helen Vendler Copy Share Image
I obviously know how good I was, and people refer to the modern game being tougher. — Stephen Hendry Copy Share Image
