I am absolutely sick unto death of hearing people say - they all say this; it must be Item One on the… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
My best efforts were some modern things that looked like very lousy Matisses. Thank God I had the sense to realize they… — Norman Rockwell Copy Share Image
There's nowhere like Detroit; it's a modern necropolis: all these art deco masterpieces crumbling away. — Malik Bendjelloul Copy Share Image
I'm making music the way I would have done before modern equipment and music recording. — Timbaland Copy Share Image
Non-human primates spend hours a day grooming each other. And with humans, touching is also important. It's a way to form bonds… — Leonard Mlodinow Copy Share Image
Sleepy pulled the car to a stop in front of this paved entranceway, which was flanked on either side by these enormous… — Meg Cabot 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
Toyin Falola has given us what is truly rare in modern African writing: a seriously funny, racy, irreverent package of memories, and… — Ama Ata Aidoo Copy Share Image
If the seams are showing, there is something wrong with the performance or the construction of the piece. This idea is completely… — Esa-Pekka Salonen Copy Share Image
Modern critics, who refuse to let a plain thing alone, have now started a theory that Cervantes's work is a vast piece… — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
The visual is sorely undervalued in modern scholarship. Art history has attained only a fraction of the conceptual sophistication of literary criticism.… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Euclid avoids it [the treatment of the infinite]; in modern mathematics it is systematically introduced, for only then is generality obtained. — Arthur Cayley Copy Share Image
We live in a hemisphere whose own revolution has given birth to the most powerful force of the modern age; the search… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
This false distance is present everywhere: in spy films, in Godard, in modern advertising, which uses it continually as a cultural allusion.… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
People killing each other in the Middle East is not news. People not killing each other in the Middle East is news. — Kelvin MacKenzie Copy Share Image
The modern world is very wealthy, it's full of options. It's not like "This is the land I was born on and… — Ian Bogost Copy Share Image
There follows a little obscenity here, a dash of philosophy there, considerable whining overall, and a modern satirical novel is born. — Renata Adler Copy Share Image
Kun-Yang Lin is a young Taiwanese choreographer with strong American modern dance roots. (His) New York debut at the Cunningham studio were… — Jennifer Dunning Copy Share Image
I always thought that in the countries that the modernity kicks in later, it seems that everything changes on the surface, the… — Asghar Farhadi Copy Share Image
Kitschis one of the major categories of the modern object. Knick-knacks, rustic odds-and-ends, souvenirs, lampshades, and African masks: the kitsch-object is collectively… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
Attempts to limit female mobility by hampering locomotion are ancient and almost universal. The foot-binding of upper-class Chinese girls and the Nigerian… — Alison Lurie Copy Share Image
The question so often asked of modern painting, "What is it?", contains more than the dull skepticism of the man who is… — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
I incline to an aristocratic republic. This would satisfy the ambitious spirit among our people. We shall learn from the historic mistakes… — Theodor Herzl Copy Share Image
Modern nature-worship is all upside down. Trees and fields ought to be the ordinary things; terraces and temples ought to be extraordinary.… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
There is a common belief that under modern conditions peace cannot be assured except on the basis of an equal balance of… — Pope John XXIII Copy Share Image
Voting, the be all and end all of modern democratic politicians, has become a farce, if indeed it was ever anything else.… — Robert Higgs Copy Share Image
I went to an all-girls Catholic high school. The three things that they focused on were reading, writing, and arithmetic. My goodness,… — Ursula Burns Copy Share Image
President Obama and our all-of-the-above energy strategy is the real deal. We are proud of the fact that we are importing less… — Ken Salazar Copy Share Image
Modern wars are seldom fought without hatred between nations; this serves more or less as a substitute for hatred between individuals. — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
The past is discredited because it is not modern. Not to be modern is the great sin. So, perhaps, it is. But… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Copy Share Image
...The very nature of interstate war puts innocent civilians into great jeopardy, especially with modern technology. — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
You're getting old when you see a girl who looks like someone you used to know, and it turns out to be… — Mike Connolly Copy Share Image
You have to take into account it was the cell phone that became what the modern-day concept of a phone call is,… — Giovanni Ribisi Copy Share Image
The most distinguished advocate and the most distinguished critic of modern captialism were in agreement on one essential point: the job makes… — Rosabeth Moss Kanter Copy Share Image
Modern life. Where are we running? Sometimes what we want is not always where we are... Are we alone? Is the real… — Aziz Ansari Copy Share Image
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