Science fiction writers missed the most salient feature of our modern era: the Internet. — Jack McDevitt Copy Share Image
Nobody in America, in the modern generation, has read their mythology or legends. — Kenneth Anger Copy Share Image
As far as art's concerned, I probably like modern art more than traditional art. — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
The dollar sign is the only sign in which the modern man appears to have any real faith. — Helen Rowland Copy Share Image
The worst of a modern stylish mansion is that it has no place for ghosts. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's only in modern times that we have come to glorify vampirism. — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
Modern broad-mindedness benefits the rich; and benefits nobody else. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I think that there is absolutely no free market in modern industrial states. — Jeane Kirkpatrick Copy Share Image
No discovery of modern psychology is, in my opinion, so important as its scientific proof of the necessity of self-sacrifice (or discipline)… — Henry C. Link Copy Share Image
Football season: The only time of the year when a man can walk down the street with a blond on one arm… — Bennett Cerf Copy Share Image
The fact remains that, if the supply of energy failed, modern civilization would come to an end as abruptly as does the… — Frederick Soddy Copy Share Image
Typography fostered the modern idea of individuality, but it destroyed the medieval sense of community and integration. — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
You know one of the causes of modern despair is the fact that we have had proposed to us, from various quarters,… — Morris West Copy Share Image
The modern dilemma is essentially a spiritual one, and every one of its main aspects, moral, political and scientific, brings us back… — Christopher Dawson Copy Share Image
This is my prediction for the future: Whatever hasn't happened will happen, and no one will be safe from it. — John B. S. Haldane Copy Share Image
Advertising is the spur on the flank that keeps modern company-helping economy out of hand till the day common sense is restored,… — Robert W. Sarnoff Copy Share Image
Well the protester I think is a very powerful thing. It's basically a mechanism of democracy that, along with capitalism, scientific innovation,… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
The evil of technology was not technology itself, Lindbergh came to see after the war, not in airplanes or the myriad contrivances… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
As soon as you think of fishing you think of things that don't belong to the modern world. The very idea of… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Childhood in large parts of modern Britain, at any rate, has been replaced by premature adulthood, or rather adolescence. Children grow up… — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
Even something as complex as the eye has appeared several times; for example, in the squid, the vertebrates, and the arthropods. It's… — Frank B. Salisbury Copy Share Image
The streets, at least in this part of town, seemed impossibly clean in comparison to London. The public telephones were unvandalised. For… — Clive James Copy Share Image
I can't blame modern technology for my predilection for distraction, not after all the hours I've spent watching lost balloons disappear into… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
So, the next film won't necessarily be modern-day Albany, Georgia but we're grateful for the films we've made (with Sherwood). The church… — Alex Kendrick Copy Share Image
For being able to use language was a critical skill that could carry one far. One could use it professionally, as a… — Elizabeth George Copy Share Image
I cannot fail to note once again that the poor constitute the modern challenge, especially for the well-off of our planet, where… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
The Intelligentsia (scientists apart) are losing all touch with, and all influence over, nearly the whole human race. Our most esteemed poets… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
If the new Universal History were also read, it would give a connected idea of human affairs, so far as it goes,… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“The great fact all the while however had been the incalculability; since he had supposed himself, from decade to decade, to be… — Henry James Copy Share Image
Pulling out his daggers, he kept them in his sleeves, just in case he happened upon someone who wouldn’t understand why a… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
To be honest, one can only feel glad that so many modern iconoclasts consider Christianity to be full of exceptionally hypocritical, religious… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Upon this point all speculative politicians will agree, that the happiness of society is the end of government, as all divines and… — John Adams Copy Share Image
