Ignorant people in preppy clothes are more dangerous to America than oil embargoes. — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
Coffee has ... expand[ed] humanity's working-day from twelve to a potential twenty-four hours. The tempo, the complexity, the tension of modern life,… — Margaret Meagher Copy Share Image
“Song " I am stuck in traffic in a taxicab which is typical and not just of modern life mud clambers up… — Frank O'Hara Copy Share Image
Oh God, modern life with all its feelings. ... We live in the most callous society ever, and all anybody talks about… — Jane Stanton Hitchcock Copy Share Image
Young normal tigers do not eat people. If eaten by a tiger you may rest assured he was abnormal. — Will Cuppy Copy Share Image
“You know how I love secrecy. It is the only thing that can make modern life wonderful or mysterious to us. The… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Civilization is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences. — John Buchan Copy Share Image
There is no better way to return the matter of taxation to full public discusssion than to repeal the withholding taxes on… — Karl Hess Copy Share Image
“It started up from the skies. Hello…wait, don't run away. I won't touch you…don't run away. I just want to talk to… — Jimi Hendrix Copy Share Image
“When we think we're multitasking we're actually multiswitching. That is what the brain is very good at doing - quickly diverting its… — Michael Harris Copy Share Image
“In other words, a playful mindset into adulthood protects our bodies and minds in a myriad of ways and gives us more… — Gad Saad Copy Share Image
I'm trying to look at many, many things in modern life that I believe are going faster, and I'm trying to look… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The Egyptians had the locusts and in the Middle Ages there was the Black Death with the rats, but tourists are the… — Richard Conniff Copy Share Image
In the spring of 1996, I was working for Nickelodeon on a show called 'Rocko's Modern Life,' and I was interested at… — Stephen Hillenburg Copy Share Image
Writing is both bomb and bomb disposal-a necessary shattering of cliche and assumption, and a powerful defusing of the soul-destroying messages of… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
One listens to one's lawyer prattle on as long as one can stand it and then signs where indicated. — Alexander Woollcott Copy Share Image
“Here, in the vast expanse of nothingness, one confronts the depths of their own existence, unburdened by the trappings of modern life.” — Ryan Gelpke Copy Share Image
A great curse has fallen upon modern life with the discovery of the vastness of the word Education. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
More than any other candidate, Mr. Trump embodies the evolving norms of communication that are being enabled and encouraged by technology and… — Anand Giridharadas Copy Share Image
I am equally excited about the possibilities that music making holds for all people and it's ability to heal what seems to… — Paul Winter Copy Share Image
“The artist’s secret lies in fear and awe. Our times have turned them into terror and dismay.” — Hugo Ball Copy Share Image
“Wu Wei, doing nothing, and Wu Bu Wei, doing everything, are our answers to the challenges of modern life.” — Qiguang Zhao Copy Share Image
The experience of the gangster as an experience of art is universal to Americans. There is almost nothing we understand better or… — Robert Warshow Copy Share Image
the costume of the nineteenth century is detestable. It is so sombre, so depressing. Sin is the only real colour-element left in… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image