Our children are exposed to 10, 20, 30 times the number of words that our great-grandfathers were exposed to. We're exposed in… — Steven C. Hayes Copy Share Image
The accusation that we've lost our soul resonates with a very modern concern about authenticity. — Patricia Hewitt Copy Share Image
A society person who is enthusiastic about modern painting or Truman Capote is already half a traitor to his class. It is… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
In Egypt, a civil state means a modern nationalist state that is compatible with Islamist provisions. — Ali Gomaa Copy Share Image
There are few problems in the world that economic prosperitycannot help solve. Yet the engines of that prosperity are under fierceattack. The… — Ziad K. Abdelnour Copy Share Image
Modern football is like handball. You see 11 players defending on the edge of their own area. — Marco van Basten Copy Share Image
There's an old saying, "We can mess it up and God cleans it up." I haven't noticed a deity of any sort… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
Italians don't have a unique style like France or Spain or Germany or the UK, it's different everywhere you go. The style… — Alessandra Mastronardi 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
It's important to concede that modern pesticides have helped to make farming more productive and to increase yields. — Chuck Norris Copy Share Image
Aristocrats need not be rich, but they must be free, and in the modern world freedom grows rarer the more we prate… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
Of course, supernatural acts are what miracles are all about. They are, after all, precisely those things that circumvent the laws of… — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
More people have access to education today than ever before. But I cannot help but feel that the modern educational experience is… — Matthew Kelly Copy Share Image
Most modern fantasy just rearranges the furniture in Tolkien's attic. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The human imagination may be the most elastic thing in the universe, stretching to encompass the millions of dreams that in centuries… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Can human hearts be changed? Why, of course! It happens every day in the great missionary work of the Church. It is… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
I feel as if dystopian and utopian representations are historically the most effective way of criticizing modern society. You know, because you… — Owen Pallett Copy Share Image
Sin does not always drive us to drink; more often it drives us to exhaustion. Tiredness is equally as debilitating as drunkenness.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Detachment is the prerogative of an elite; and as the dandy is the nineteenth century's surrogate for the aristocrat in matters ofculture,… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
You have to attack the source of your enemy’s strength. In America’s case, that’s not Osama or Saddam or anyone else. The… — Greg Mortenson Copy Share Image
I generally hate the luxury modern apartment with too many things out of sight and so clean you cannot touch. — Jean Nouvel Copy Share Image
Our modern states are preparing for war without even knowing the future enemy. — Alfred Adler Copy Share Image
Skijoring is just something that people want to see, it's like Ben Hur on snow, the modern way. I love the speed,… — Charlton Heston Copy Share Image
Mythological subjects always new. Modern subjects difficult because of the absence of the nude and the wretchedness of modern costume. — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
I always thought that in modern history Chinese people are like a dish of sand, never really close together. But I think… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
I was getting tired of hearing the complaint, 'My kid could do this,' and 'We don’t get it. What’s modern art? Blah,… — John Baldessari Copy Share Image
The true miracle of modern medicine is diabolical. It consists in making not only individuals but whole populations survive on inhumanly low… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
Modern fake fur looks so much like real fur that the moment it leaves the atelier, no one can tell it's not… — Stella McCartney Copy Share Image
“I view the modern workplace as somewhere you go to have your long term health severely damaged.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
The people I see on bicycles look like organic-gardening zealots who advocate federal regulation of bedtime and want American foreign policy to… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
I would say that the writers I like and trust have at the base of their prose something called the English sentence.… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
I am one of those sort of "lesser" types, those sensitive types, those people who wouldn't have made it on their own… — Dar Williams Copy Share Image
For Tommy, on that hot and empty afternoon, was in a state of mind in which grown-up people go away and write… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A seventeenth-century painting can be "modern" because the living eye finds it fresh and new. A "modern" painting can be outdated because… — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
Modern culture is in so much trouble, where people don't have a deep inner life, or any deep experience of their true… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Modern air travel means less time spent in transit. That time is now spent in transit lounges. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
I have the soundtrack for 'A Clockwork Orange,' which is kind of cool. I guess I don't really end up buying a… — James Mercer Copy Share Image
In addition to English, at least one ancient language, probably Greek or Hebrew, and two modern languages would be required. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Organized religions in general, in my opinion, are dying forms. They were all very important when we didn't know why the sun… — Bruce Willis Copy Share Image
