A good example of the modern world is the Eurotunnel. And mobile phones - I like them. — Jools Holland 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
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
Modern war appears as a struggle led by all the State apparatuses and their general staffs against all men old enough to… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Newspaper : A device unable to distinguish between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilisation. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I've spent a lot of time playing Bach partitas. One of my first jobs was to play for ballet and modern classes,… — Caroline Shaw Copy Share Image
In a post-modern culture we need an apologetic that is felt and seen because if post-moderns are not feeling it, they are… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
Much modern art is, at first sight, unnerving... in the contemporary world, we have come to expect instant response and immediate understanding. — Nicholas Serota Copy Share Image
I had no idea of the historical evolution of the civilized world's music and had not realized that all modern music owes… — Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov Copy Share Image
The resurrection is a fact better attested than any event recorded in any history, whether ancient or modern. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
It's one of the tragedies of the modern university that it offers little space to generalists. — Rutger Bregman 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
City of rest! - as it seems to our modern senses, - how is it possible that so busy, so pitiless and… — Mary Augusta Ward Copy Share Image
To be awarded a prize which takes its name from an illustrious Dutchman who at the same time was a great citizen… — John G. D. Clark Copy Share Image
These monster cities we live in today are blights of modern society. They will certainly give way to planned cities interlinked to… — James P. Cannon Copy Share Image
The many varieties and wonderful colors of the modern dahlia make it a totally different flower from the one our grandmothers knew.… — Helena Rutherfurd Ely Copy Share Image
From blood banking to the modern subway, from jazz to social justice, the contributions of African Americans have shaped and molded and… — Bill Frist Copy Share Image
I wanted to paint in a folk-artist-y way. My heroes were Van Gogh, Gauguin, Matisse, and Rembrandt. I think Picasso is about… — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
Just because many modern academics are very secular does not mean that we should ignore those factors in earlier generations - and… — Philip Jenkins Copy Share Image
If diversity is a source of wonder, its opposite - the ubiquitous condensation to some blandly amorphous and singularly generic modern culture… — Wade Davis Copy Share Image
For when asceticism was carried out of monastic cells into everyday life, and began to dominate worldly morality, it did its part… — Max Weber Copy Share Image
Composing computer programs to solve scientific problems is like writing poetry. You must choose every word with care and link it with… — James Lovelock Copy Share Image
At the present moment in our culture this yearning for meaning and consciousness, this yearning to give and serve something higher than… — Jacob Needleman Copy Share Image
Your eyes, accustomed to semi-darkness, will soon open to more radiant visions of light. The shadows which we shall paint shall be… — Umberto Boccioni Copy Share Image
I do think there is a completely different notion to glamour today. I think modern glamour is more effortless, easy, and real.… — Roksanda Ilincic Copy Share Image
Leibniz accepted the argument that there must be indestructible simple entities if there is to be a complex world, but Epicurean morals… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
Modern physics has taught us that the nature of any system cannot be discovered by dividing it into its component parts and… — Max Planck Copy Share Image
