“Being busy is a distraction and I am sure that doing nothing, resting and sleeping are all good cures for modern life.… — Joanna Runciman Copy Share Image
“Imagine a day when all plants and trees go on a strike, a bandh just for a day. All of us will… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Chris Ofili's suave, stippled, visually tricked-out paintings of the nineties, with their allover fields of shimmering dots and clumps of dung, are… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
“How could you tell how much of it was lies? It might be true that the average human being was better off… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“The very shaping of history now outpaces the ability of men to orient themselves in accordance with cherished values. Even when they… — C.Wright Mills Copy Share Image
The problem of restoring integration and co-operation between man's beliefs about the world in which he lives and his beliefs about values… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
When man sends colonies into space, he will be able to mount moveable, sun-reflecting mirrors to simulate rhythms of day and night… — Lance Morrow Copy Share Image
Sending grown-ups up the wall is one of the things adolescence is all about. A few years ago it was done with… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
We're living in a state where no one can trust his telephone conversations, nor even his personal conversations in a room, in… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
“Human beings weren't designed to handle the amount of stress our modern life loads on us, which makes it difficult to hear… — Laura Markham Copy Share Image
The modern woman has a modern life, and most of us work. There's no time to change before we go out in… — L'Wren Scott Copy Share Image
There are no private lives. This a most important aspect of modern life. That one of the biggest transformations we have seen… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
As the horsepower in modern automobiles steadily rises, the congestion of traffic steadily lowers the average possible speed of your car. This… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
The pleasure in traveling consists of the obstacles, the fatigue, and even the danger. What charm can anyone find in an excursion… — Theophile Gautier Copy Share Image
If we continue at this leisurly pace, we will have to pass Russian customs when we land on the moon. — Wernher von Braun Copy Share Image
“The whole tendency of modern life is towards scientific planning and organisation, central control, standardisation, and specialisation. If this tendency was left… — Christopher Henry Dawson Copy Share Image
“Wilderness to the people pf America is a spiritual necessity, an antidote to the high pressure of modern life, a means of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The key is the ability, whether innate or conditioned, to find the other side of the rote, the picayune, the meaningless, the… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Comparison, a great teacher once told me, is the cardinal sin of modern life. It traps us in a game that we… — James C. Collins Copy Share Image
It is a sobering thought that Gomer Pyle and the Beverly Hillbillies may be among our chief interstellar emissaries. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I am constantly amazed when I talk to young people to learn how much they know about sex and how little about… — Billie Burke Copy Share Image
Run for your lives-the computers are invading. Awesomely powerful computers tackling ever more important tasks with awkward, old-fashioned interfaces. As these machines… — Alan Cooper Copy Share Image
