“We may be in the modern digital age, but when it comes to stories, we are still antediluvian.” — Calvin Niles Copy Share Image
“There are so many simple things getting unnoticed in me, it makes me feel I am a robot!” — Vikram Roy Copy Share Image
“People with Books. What, in 2007, could be more incongruous than that? It makes me want to laugh." [ Afterword ]” — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
Give your child a spanking once a day. If you don't know why, he does. — Sam Levenson Copy Share Image
“Modern life changes no longer century by century, but year by year, ten times faster than it ever has before...” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Bad luck and (extreme) misfortune will infest your pathetic soul for all eternity. — Rocko Copy Share Image
“The need to be normal is the predominant anxiety disorder in modern life.” — Thomas Moore Copy Share Image
A cynic might suggest as the motto of modern life this simple legend-"just as good as the real. — Charles Dudley Warner Copy Share Image
Even with all our technology and the inventions that make modern life so much easier than it once was, it takes just… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
To be, in a word, unborable… It is the key to modern life. If you are immune to boredom, there is literally… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“This concept struck a familiar chord with many individuals who indeed were having a difficult time coping with the rapid change that… — James Canton Copy Share Image
The way the [welfare] programs are organized, poor people are only paid to do things that are counter-productive - such as breaking… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
I fell in love with Norman Mailer's 'Of a Fire on the Moon', a description of the 1969 moon landing and the… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
That's part of the requirement for me to be an artist is that you're trying to share your personal existence with others… — Francis Ford Coppola Copy Share Image
The thing that amazes me about modern life is you have all these devices that are supposed to make your lives more… — Ken Wahl Copy Share Image
“Sometime we forget to value the small things, that inspire us more than the large! We should learn from daily than planning… — Vikram Roy Copy Share Image
As the classes in modern life come together, we have become much more intensely class conscious. It's a very curious thing. But… — Louis Auchincloss Copy Share Image
“Better than those mobile phones the young ones check hundreds of times a day which makes them go mental She’s read about… — Bernardine Evaristo Copy Share Image
I think because the show ["Grant MacLaren"] is essentially a hopeful show. The show says that as bleak as the future is,… — Eric McCormack Copy Share Image
Artist should look at the reality and brutality of modern life in all its color, nature with all its imperfections - that… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
For the past several centuries the bonding power of the family dinner table has been one of the few constants, and now… — Larry McMurtry Copy Share Image
A subject to which few intellectuals ever give a thought is the right to be a vagrant, the freedom to wander. Yet… — Isabelle Eberhardt 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
“Radios, vacuum tubes, transistors, televisions, solar cells, coaxial cables, laser beams, microprocessors, computers, cell phones, fiber optics—all these essential tools of modern… — Steven Johnson Copy Share Image
“From here on out, Reena's life was going to be hard. She would have to work hard to get the job, and… — Caro Claire Burke Copy Share Image
“I learned that the world of men as it exists today is a bureaucracy. This is an obvious truth, of course, though… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“This is that CONSOLATION DES ARTS which is the key-note of Gautier’s poetry, the secret of modern life foreshadowed - as indeed… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Can we create critical mass of people who not only agree with one other but can also disagree with one another? I… — Suhaib Webb Copy Share Image
“When the time comes, & I hope it comes soon, to bury this era of moral rot & the defiling of our… — Dan Rather Copy Share Image
“The movie Koyaanisqatsi shows non-commented time-lapse footage and focuses our attention on the very rhythm of our civilized modern life and nature.… — Sebastian Marincolo Copy Share Image
“Tibet has not yet been infested by the worst disease of modern life, the everlasting rush. No one overworks here. Officials have… — Heinrich Harrer Copy Share Image
“There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live. Surely these… — James Truslow Adams Copy Share Image