It is a sobering thought that Gomer Pyle and the Beverly Hillbillies may be among our chief interstellar emissaries. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Modern life requires us to be more and more flexible in our attire. — Giorgio Armani Copy Share Image
Traveling with children corresponds roughly to traveling third class in Bulgaria. — Robert Benchley Copy Share Image
The good old horse-and-buggy days: then you lived until you died and not until you were run over. — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
In the United States, we've put our elections on Tuesday. That's dumb. In modern life, it makes absolutely no sense. — Shaun King Copy Share Image
The Internet is vital to economic development, health, education, and to be honest, all areas of our modern life. — Kay Ivey Copy Share Image
The townspeople are morons, yokels, peasants and genus homo boobiensis...surrounded by gaping primates from the upland vallies. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
IQ in general has improved since tests first began. Psychologists think that this is because modern life becomes ever more complicated. — A. N. Wilson Copy Share Image
“You can’t get where you want to go unless you start with where you are. Unfortunately, modern life seems to provide an… — Michael Hyatt Copy Share Image
Our cultural dilemma has nothing to do with children who don't read very well. It lies instead in the difficulty of finding… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
“Oh, no, I am dying, Ilya says. Not sick. I am born dying. But I am not so unusual. There are many… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
We can't test these absolute limits on humans. We can't blast them with sound. However, we can do that to animals because… — John Baird 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
I have learned some things. Modern life is warfare without end: take no prisoners, leave no wounded, eat the dead--that's environmentally sound. — James Crumley Copy Share Image
The problem with making an extrinsic reward the only destination that matters is that some people will choose the quickest route there,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To a child, 'The Little Prince' is the story of a boy who falls from the sky, meets lots of funny people… — Maria Konnikova Copy Share Image
“p11- when people cherish some set of values and do not feel any threat to them they experience well being 12- we… — 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
Modern life... changes no longer century by century, but year by year, ten times faster than it ever has before-populations doubling, civilizations… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I think the irony of modern life is that our data, our highly personal information, has been taken from us, but in… — James Ponsoldt Copy Share Image
“We are experiencing changes across the full spectrum of our experience: to our bodies, our diet, our sleep, and so much more.… — Heather E. Heying Copy Share Image
My God, the suburbs! They encircled the city's boundaries like enemy territory and we thought of them as a loss of privacy,… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
“The problem is going to be, "Let's see, I spent all day staring at a computer screen and then at night my… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“Humans are cognitive misers because their basic tendency is to default to Type I processing mechanisms of low computational expense. Using less… — Keith E. Stanovich Copy Share Image
Every reiteration of the idea that _nothing matters_ debases the human spirit. Every reiteration of the idea that there is no drama… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
“Heidegger connects the linchpin of the Kantian Paradigm—A5 Active Knower, that is, the idea that the subject organizes experience—to what he considers… — Lee Braver Copy Share Image
“Let’s take a look at how modern life goes. Mostly, it’s frenetic and at a pace that’s not conducive to reflective thought./… — Sarah Wilson Copy Share Image
“One of the tragic ironies of modern life is that so many people feel isolated from each other by the very feelings… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
“There is a pervasive form of contemporary violence to which the idealist most easily succumbs: activism and overwork. The rush and pressure… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“Oh, those lapses, darling. So many of us walk around letting fly with “errors.” We could do better, but we’re so slovenly,… — John H. McWhorter Copy Share Image
