The painters have no copyright on modern art!... I believe in, and make no apologies for, photography: it is the most important… — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
It is love that transports us, that fills us with joy! Love turns life into one long adventure, every encounter is a… — François Lelord Copy Share Image
The theory of modern education is that you need a general education before you specialize. And I think to some extent, before… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
The fatal hour of this ancient game is approaching. In its modern form this game will soon die a drawing death -… — Emanuel Lasker Copy Share Image
Modern loneliness is an extraverted loneliness, in which the person is surrounded by many people and partakes of much communication but feels… — Edward Hallowell Copy Share Image
As ever with modern Britain, we are let down by a vast, over-manned, over-funded, hidebound, obstructive, box-ticking and incompetent bureaucracy. — Frederick Forsyth Copy Share Image
The surrealists, and the modern movement in painting as a whole, seemed to offer a key to the strange postwar world with… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
I think I was first to do live performances on a modern electronic sound synthesizer. — John Eaton Copy Share Image
We thought there was also something that was humorous but at the same time powerful and deep about naming the album, 'Modern… — Rostam Batmanglij Copy Share Image
A great deal has been written about the forthrightness of the moderns shocking the Victorians, but there is no shock like the… — Margery Allingham Copy Share Image
All the modern christian churches have no more authority to preach, baptize, or administer any other ordinance of the gospel than the… — Orson Pratt Copy Share Image
I think she is going to find you too old... Yes that was it, the moment she said it I knew it… — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
Poets arguing about modern poetry: jackals snarling over a dried-up well. — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
The struggle of the spirit against the senses is the gospel of modern man. I do not wish to have any part… — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Copy Share Image
A striking feature of moral and political argument in the modern world is the extent to which it is innovators, radicals, and… — Alasdair MacIntyre Copy Share Image
Pharmaceuticals have become an increasingly important part of modern medicine, and our seniors shouldn't have to worry about whether they can afford… — Michael K. Simpson 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
In the modern world, nationalism remains a very important force. We delude ourselves into thinking that globalization has made all of that… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
The decay of decency in the modern age, the rebellion against law and good faith, the treatment of human beings as things,… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
Processions that lack high stilts have nothing that catches the eye. What if my great-granddad had a pair that were twenty foot… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him. — William James Copy Share Image
I was 16 years old, and I was just flailing around, looking for an interest. I heard, you know, these jazz records.… — Harvey Pekar Copy Share Image
Half of one per cent of the U.S. budget is space-related stuff. In Canada, we spend more on dog foodScreen Shot 2015-08-19… — David Saint-Jacques Copy Share Image
We are breeding creatures incapable of surviving in any place other than the most artificial settings. We have focused the awesome power… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I call my design style rustically modern. I like to take traditional or rustic features and fuse it into a more modern… — Drew Scott Copy Share Image
If nobody comes to your shows, then it's modern dance. If everybody comes to your shows and no one likes it, is… — Mark Morris Copy Share Image
Fleeing persecution is not a crime. And we do not seek to pander to a noisy, tiny minority who will never embrace… — Bill Shorten Copy Share Image
Such is modern computing: everything simple is made too complicated because it's easy to fiddle with; everything complicated stays complicated because it's… — Rob Pike Copy Share Image
The stench of human wreckage in which the Nazi regime finally sank down to defeat has been the most shocking fact of… — Janet Flanner Copy Share Image
I think my time at West Brom was successful, that's my take on it. I look back on the work I did… — Steve Clarke Copy Share Image
I went on all over the States, ranting poems to enthusiastic audiences that, the week before, had been equally enthusiastic about lectures… — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
Modern war and modern civilisation are utterly incompatible...one or the other must go. — Vera Brittain Copy Share Image
One of my favorite modern American authors is Denis Johnson. I'm deeply inspired by all of his work - I rip him… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
If the Negro is not careful he will drink in all the poison of modern civilization and die from the effects of… — Marcus Garvey Copy Share Image
It is quite likely that the modern contrivances for making Sunday-schools amusing have given them a distate for the more solemn services… — Samuel I. Prime Copy Share Image
I'm not a twentieth-century novelist, I'm not modern, and certainly not postmodern. I follow the form of the nineteenth-century novel; that was… — John Irving Copy Share Image
The reason the very concept of God has become at once so impoverished, so thoroughly mythical, and ultimately so incredible for so… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
