The modern writer who has influenced me most is W. Somerset Maugham . — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Modern reality TV sets up these competitive situations to show us real human nature. — Alexander Ludwig Copy Share Image
For the qualities of sheer wit and humor, Swift had no superior, ancient or modern. — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
However, we might oppose it, abortion is a sad feature of modern life. — Robert Casey Copy Share Image
Lio Rush, this little guy is a perfect heel manager, updated for modern times. — Jim Cornette Copy Share Image
The real luxury travel of the modern age is not through space; it's through time. — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
Modern civilization has no understanding of sacred matters. Everything is backwards. — Thomas Yellowtail Copy Share Image
Admiration takes on a whole new level when you appreciate just how complex it is to run a modern business. — Ursula Burns Copy Share Image
In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The modern story begun, one might say, with Edgar Allan Poe, which proceeds inexorably, like a machine destined to accomplish its mission… — Julio Cortazar Copy Share Image
Young normal tigers do not eat people. If eaten by a tiger you may rest assured he was abnormal. — Will Cuppy Copy Share Image
Our most modern sin is that we do not love the world enough. We have exiled the holy from this realm so… — Erik Reece Copy Share Image
The age demanded an image Of its accelerated grimace, Something for the modern stage, Not, at any rate, an Attic grace. — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
Modern agriculture has been accurately described as a way of turning oil into food. As the price of oil continues to rise,… — Jeremy Grantham Copy Share Image
I was serious about ballet for a long time, but my mom got me into tap and jazz and modern and hip-hop,… — Greta Gerwig Copy Share Image
Venice is truly magical. The Devon-Dorset coast in England is so beautiful, and its sandstone cliffs are full of fossils, which can… — Jo Beverley Copy Share Image
The majority of modern medicines originate in nature. Although some mushrooms have been used in therapies for thousands of years, we are… — Paul Stamets Copy Share Image
All handling by IPCC of the Sea Level questions have been done in a way that cannot be accepted and that certainly… — Nils-Axel Morner Copy Share Image
One might almost say, to adapt von Clausewitz, that modern warfare is PR by other means. And war-winning strategies mean that modern… — David Frum Copy Share Image
How you feel about the modern, multitouch tablet depends a lot on what you think Steve Jobs and company set out to… — Walt Mossberg Copy Share Image
Under chattel slavery and feudalism, exploitation was concrete and personalized in the producer's relationship with his master. The slave and peasant knew… — Kevin Carson Copy Share Image
Short naps are good. Given modern workplace demands, this is not possible for many people - but if you have the option,… — Andrew Weil Copy Share Image
The modern city is ugly not because it is a city but because it is not enough of a city, because it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A ceiling fixture that places a floating assembly of large pebbles below a simple modern aluminum disc. These in turn reflect each… — Ross Lovegrove Copy Share Image
With the eventual acceptance of Darwin's theory we reach a modern understanding of nature, one which has since then changed in detail… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
“Blind impatience is equally evident in the fruit section. Our ancestors might have delighted in the occasional handful of berries found on… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
The modern world has far too little understanding of the art of keeping young. Its notion of progress has been to pile… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Being concerned about other people is especially relevant in today's world. If we consider the complex inter-connected ness of our modern lives,… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Beginning with Santa Claus as a cognitive exercise, a child is encouraged to share the same idea of reality as his peers.… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I think the subject which will be of most importance politically is mass psychology… Its importance has been enormously increased by the… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Usama bin Laden feels like Iraq is a part of this War on Terror. He has made it clear that he would… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
It's not about retro or modern, it's about this note or that note, which sounds better? — Dan Hicks Copy Share Image
Modern man is educated to understand foreign languages and misunderstand foreigners. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yogurt. — John Mortimer Copy Share Image
Only the camera seems to be really capable of describing modern life. — Alexander Rodchenko Copy Share Image
It used to take years to become a junkie. But crack cut that down to 37 minutes. — Chris Rock Copy Share Image
