Without the blues, modern music would be nothing like it is now - not remotely. — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
To me, the make-up of a modern defenseman, the No. 1 thing is the processing skills. — Barry Trotz Copy Share Image
No matter how many modern parts I do, people still refer to me as Mrs. Costume Drama. — Helena Bonham Carter Copy Share Image
Many novels and modern publications are corrupters of morals or distorters of truth. — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
Very few modern people think Friendship a love of comparable value or even a love at all. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Mystique is rare now, isn't it? There aren't that many enigmas in this modern world. — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
Modern political science started in the late nineteenth century as a branch of history. — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
The modern concept of the vacuum of space, confirmed every day by experiment, is a relativistic ether. — Robert B. Laughlin Copy Share Image
A point must be repeated: only the pathological weakness of the financial memory...allows us to believe that the modern experience of…debt...is in… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
You cannot hope to bribe or twist, thank God! The British journalist. But seeing what the man will do unbribed, there's no… — Humbert Wolfe Copy Share Image
The yeshiva where I studied considers itself modern Orthodox, not ultra-Orthodox. We followed a rigorous secular curriculum alongside traditional Talmud and Bible… — Noah Feldman Copy Share Image
Modern life is given over to immoderation. Immoderation invades everything: actions and thought, public and private life. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
I always thought martial arts was the most modern choreography we could have right now, and I always wanted to put it… — Lou Reed Copy Share Image
Modern science fiction is the only form of literature that consistently considers the nature of the changes that face us. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
I hope for an America where the power of faith will always burn brightly, but where no modern inquisition of any kind… — Edward Kennedy Copy Share Image
I went to Concord, a young woman from the backwoods, firm in belief that Emerson was the first of living men. He… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One wonders whether a generation that demands instant satisfaction of all its needs and instant solution of the world's problems will produce… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The legalized liquor business is the tragedy of our civilization. Alcohol is the greatest and most blighting curse of our modern civilization.… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
No father, no son, no mother, no daughter should get so busy that he or she does not have time to study… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
85% of modern music doesn't have a damn thing to do with music. It has to do with looking good. Name me… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
...he shrunk more and more from the realities of life and above all from the society of his day which he regarded… — Joris-Karl Huysmans Copy Share Image
When we study Shakespeare on the page, for academic purposes, we may require all kinds of help. Generally, we read him in… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
I am the very model of a modern Major-General, I've information vegetable, animal, and mineral, I know the kings of England, and… — W. S. Gilbert Copy Share Image
The murder clearance rate now in my city Baltimore is almost non-existent. Nobody can solve a murder, nobody can do any actual… — David Simon Copy Share Image
The Revival of 1859 helped to lay the foundations of the modern international and interdenominational missionary structureEvery revival of religion in the… — J. Edwin Orr Copy Share Image
Modernity is the ensemble of changes - intellectual, political, economic, social, cultural, technological, aesthetic - that have altered the world drastically since… — George Scialabba Copy Share Image
You mean Teletubbies? (Berith) The fact that you know what they’re called, Berith, truly scares me. (Jericho) As a demon of torture,… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
What the founders of modern science, among them Galileo, had to do, was not to criticize and to combat certain faulty theories,… — Alexandre Koyre Copy Share Image
According to one influential wing of modern secular society there are few more disreputable fates than to end up being 'like everyone… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
We are living in a renaissance of personal writing. People are rebalancing the impersonalization endemic to modern society with an increase in… — Christina Baldwin Copy Share Image
We're all born listeners. And as a result of our modern lives, and living in a world that has less meaning than… — Gordon Hempton Copy Share Image
I lay off a lot modern fiction and only rely on living writers for non-fiction work. — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Homegrown terrorists are a real problem for even the most modern, democratic societies. — Richard N. Haass Copy Share Image
The Romans used every housing form known today and they have a remarkably modern look. — Stephen Gardiner Copy Share Image
The modern world is about knowledge and it's our job as mums to help our daughters. — Mary Nightingale Copy Share Image
Truth be told, our modern education systems crush the very spirit they claim to instill. — Matthew Kelly Copy Share Image
