There is a modern take on certain things you can do that, to me, is still jazz. — Robert Glasper Copy Share Image
The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are. — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
The curse of modern times is, that almost everything does create controversy. — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
A painting in an interior spreads joy around it by the colors, which calm us. — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
Is it surprising that modern English land law should resemble a chaos rather than a system? — Edward Jenks Copy Share Image
Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism. — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
It is especially difficult for modern people to conceive that our modern, scientific age might not be an improvement over the prescientific… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
In modern Greek history, there is a close relationship between national humiliation and political radicalization. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Men must speak English who can write Sanskrit; they must speak a modern language who write, perchance, an ancient and universal one. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I have no problems with buying tampons. I am a fairly modern man. But apparently they're not a "proper" present. "Happy birthday,… — Jimmy Carr Copy Share Image
Newspapers, magazines and other publications have the constitutional right to be offensive, even disgusting. As evidence of that, just watch this space… — Mike Royko Copy Share Image
The true miracle of modern medicine is diabolical. It consists in making not only individuals but whole populations survive on inhumanly low… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
In modern times, what impresses one is not a simple and unassuming statement of the truth, but superficial showmanship and display. — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
Modern love is the enterprise that everyone wants to be a part of, yet there's a fifty percent divorce rate in round… — Esther Perel Copy Share Image
A theologian of the cross says what a thing is. In modern parlance: a theologian of the cross calls a spade a… — Gerhard Copy Share Image
Marriage is the most obvious public practice about which information is readily available. When combined with the traditional Jewish concern for continuity… — Noah Feldman Copy Share Image
I think because the show ["Grant MacLaren"] is essentially a hopeful show. The show says that as bleak as the future is,… — Eric McCormack Copy Share Image
We sometimes forget that human invention can also be a subject of human invention: that might seem a modern notion, or a… — Andrew O'Hagan Copy Share Image
Sometimes I feel ashamed at my lack of interest in all the new techniques of modern filmmaking, but I prefer to work… — Sven Nykvist Copy Share Image
The Pink Panther is legendary, but a lot of people my age haven't ever seen the original. So, I think it's great… — Beyonce Knowles Copy Share Image
Surely no one will consider us lacking in reverence if we say that every one of the "principles of modern salesmanship" on… — Bruce Barton Copy Share Image
“The catastrophe slumbering in the womb of theoretical culture is gradually beginning to frighten modern man; in other words, he is beginning… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
But for the Jews this moral-spiritual issue raises the same societal problem it does for the Greeks: how can a man have… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
In the modern industrialized Western world, where I come from, the person whom you choose to marry is perhaps the single most… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I didn't know why I was coming to this room. Someone just told me to go to Sam Raimi's office. I knew… — Brian Michael Bendis Copy Share Image
As far as feminism is concerned be the problem in the world is men, and they, in their natural state, are essentially… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
By the time [of modern] generation was coming of age sexually, there was already this idea of safe sex. But that didn't… — Michael Stipe Copy Share Image
Modern novels have become part of the do-it-yourself business, and they come in a very small number of standard kits. (...) In… — David Pryce-Jones Copy Share Image
Within the universe of the extraordinary, those qualities we designate to human concepts of gender are often shared, exchanged, or even completely… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
On the philosophical level, both Buddhism and modern science share a deep suspicion of any notion of absolutes, whether conceptualize as a… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
If modern art has produced symbols that are unfamiliar, that was only to be expected. — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
No one in the modern world controls the wealth or territory that Cleopatra did. — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
The truth is always modern and there never comes a time when it is safe to give it voice. — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image