Modern poets are bells of lead. They should tinkle melodiously but usually they just klunk. — Lord Dunsany Copy Share Image
From ancient to modern times, the human animal knows how to find fighting. — Brad Meltzer Copy Share Image
We are so Post-Modern that we don't realize how Post-Modern we are anymore. — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance. — Max Eastman Copy Share Image
What description of clouds and sunsets was to the old novelist, description of scientific apparatus and methods is to the modern Scientific… — Hugo Gernsback Copy Share Image
People on death row, the treatment of animals, women's right to choose. So much in America is based on religious fundamentalist Christianity.… — Eddie Vedder Copy Share Image
If my life hadn't itself been a modern adaptation of 'Les Atrides,' I probably would never have left the theatre. — Isabelle Adjani Copy Share Image
Although he may not always recognize his bondage, modern man lives under a tyranny of numbers. — Nicholas Eberstadt Copy Share Image
The task of the modern era was the realization and humanization of God – the transformation and dissolution of theology into anthropology. — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
A basic principal of modern state capitalism is that costs and risks are socialized to the extent possible, while profit is privatized. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In modern studios, we're so used to becoming little dictators; you're used to the fascism of having complete control over every element. — Herbert Copy Share Image
The great irony is that people who live in remote areas, who are illiterate and don't own TVs, are in some ways… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Of all the many and (thanks to a free press) the ever-multiplying blessings attendant upon the "glorious constitution" of literature, not the… — Samuel Laman Blanchard Copy Share Image
The ideas of the classics, so far as living, are our commonplaces. It is the modern books that give us the latest… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
If some incarnation of evil as unambiguous as Hitler appeared again, I would have no moral qualms about killing the enemy. But… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
I know this, and I know it from actual experience in the Orient, that the progress of modern Christian civilization has largely… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
Today, any action anywhere on earth has an immediate repercussion on all five continents. News of a victory of the Eastern armies… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
“The modern family is one in which the divergent values of our separate souls are supported, valued, encouraged. Diversity is not just… — James Hollis Copy Share Image
Our modern conception of the universe is so foreign to what even scientists generally believed a mere century ago that it is… — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
Here and there, in some older houses, old faded daguerreotypes still hang on the walls... They seem to us to be very… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
In recent years our knowledge of modern technology has increased considerably, and as a result we have witnessed remarkable material progress, but… — Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Copy Share Image
Unrestrained automobility, hedonism, individualism, and conspicuous consumption cannot be sustained because they take more than they give back. A spiritually impoverished world… — David W. Orr Copy Share Image
I believe that ideas such as absolute certitude, absolute exactness, final truth, etc. are figments of the imagination which should not be… — Max Born Copy Share Image
Physiologically adult humans are not meant to spend an additional 10 years in a school system; their brains map that onto "I… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
I think the legacy was set because the way George Mitchell was the leader enabled Tom Daschle to be the leader he… — Barbara Mikulski Copy Share Image
I guess you could say Alexander the Great was a man who completely transported me and moved me and inspired me because… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
To survive in modern times, a company must have an organizational structure that accepts change as its basic premise, lets tribal customs… — Ricardo Semler Copy Share Image
My miscarriage made me realize that many modern career women take on too much. — Mary Nightingale Copy Share Image
“Entertainment is temporary happiness, but the real happiness is permanent entertainment.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
The modern materialists are not permitted to doubt; they are forbidden to believe. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is no force more potent in the modern world than stupidity fueled by greed. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
No, the mullet's gone, I've have a nice blonde, spiky haircut, but it's quite modern. — Limahl Copy Share Image
