“I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvellous to… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Cars have become an essential ingredient of modern life, as shoes used to be.” — Debasish Mridha Copy Share Image
I do not much care for nature, and believe that flowers belong in vases rather than loose and untidy on the ground. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
“Imagine a world without touch… Relationships grow colder, trust erodes, and loneliness becomes the norm.” — Ken Breniman 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
A great curse has fallen upon modern life with the discovery of the vastness of the word Education. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The historical novel gives us perspective on our modern lives and helps us connect with the story, which we are continuing ourselves. — Mary Pope Osborne Copy Share Image
Unlimited choice is paralyzing. The Internet has made this form of paralysis due to option overload a standard feature of comfortable modern… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
Things like the financial markets - a proper grounding in mathematics could help the common man. I believe that if people are… — Viswanathan Anand Copy Share Image
“We live in an era where everyone is terrified of being caught trying. So, the defense mechanism is to pretend you never… — Lokesh Tuli Copy Share Image
“Oh, it's not done,' I said, 'but neither is adultery or theft or running away from the enemy's fire. The not done… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
Human ingenuity has given centuries to the goal of ensuring that the human body might move around at an even 68 degrees… — Lance Morrow 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
This congestion in the post offices is due to what are technically known as "regulations" but what are really a series of… — Robert Benchley Copy Share Image
Art has no place in modern life. It will continue to exist as long as there is a mania for the romantic… — Alexander Rodchenko Copy Share Image
Songs bring us into connection with each other. When they resonate, when we're in resonance, singing together, we become one for that… — Mary Gauthier Copy Share Image
True as this is, it is also true that for one who won through there were many who gained nothing, and it… — Ralph Adams Cram Copy Share Image
The secret of genius is to suffer no fiction to exist for us; to realize all that we know; in the high… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“It is not certain that the standardized habits of modern life lead to the optimum development of human beings. The present ways… — Alexis Carrel Copy Share Image
“In an instant, she was free from this small commitment and any kind of freedom feels good. She much preferred that invites… — Ani Baker Copy Share Image
The only big ideas I've ever had came from daydreaming, but modern life keeps people from daydreaming. Every moment of the day… — Paul MacCready Copy Share Image
I've spent most of my life living in cities where people are obsessed with looking down on people from everywhere else. You… — Adam Duritz 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
“It had been like this forever, thought Domenic Jejeune. For a thousand years and more, men and women had been greeted by… — Steve Burrows Copy Share Image
“When I like people immensely I never tell their names to anyone. It is like surrendering a part of them. I have… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“If you abandon your two glasses of wine, it is to show your children, your friends, and your society that your life… — Thich Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
“Laila could picture the flow of traffic all around her. From above, she watched the cars move along in streams like all… — Cliff Jones Jr Copy Share Image
“The personality of man is not an apple that has to be polished, but a banana that has to be peeled. And… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
“Reading Virginia Woolf will change your life, may even save it. If you want to make sense of modern life, the works… — Jane Goldman Copy Share Image
“[ On Love After Love by Derek Walcott ] I read this poem often, once a month at least. In the madness… — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
One way to solve the traffic problem is to keep all the cars that are not paid for off the streets. — Will Rogers 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
In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin. — Oscar Wilde 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
In the conditions of modern life the rule is absolute, the race which does not value trained intelligence is doomed. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
“sometimes I hear screaming like a child and wake up to find it’s me” — Stephen Fitzsimons Copy Share Image
The subject [of Los Angeles] became a general metaphor for anxiety and the speed of modern life. — Edward Ruscha Copy Share Image