Modern Quotes
3241 quotes by 2183 authors
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Like many modern poets, I tend to conceal rhymes by placing them in the middle of lines, and to avoid immediate alliteration and assonance in…
— Margaret Atwood
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Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people and on how…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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One of the most feared expressions in modern times is 'The computer is down.'
— Norman Ralph Augustine
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The main reason for the failure of the modern medical science is that it is dealing with results and not causes. Nothing more than the…
— Edward Bach
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The early commentators who put down the pre-presidential Roosevelt as an empty-headed young lightweight, all ambition and no talent, now seem comically wrong to a…
— Russell Baker
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Discrimination due to age is one of the great tragedies of modern life. The desire to work and be useful is what makes life worth…
— Johnny Ball
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Writing a novel is one of those modern rites of passage, I think, that lead us from an innocent world of contentment, drunkenness, and good…
— J. G. Ballard
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The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.
— Edward Abbey
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Your modern teenager is not about to listen to advice from an old person, defined as a person who remembers when there was no Velcro.
— Dave Barry
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I've read some of your modern free verse and wonder who set it free.
— John Barrymore
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I kind of lost interest in the classical dance. I was very much interested in the modern choreography.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
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Now there is in a way a renaissance of modern dance - suddenly, it is more respected and discovered.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
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To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available…
— Charles Baudelaire
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Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.
— John Berger
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Our modern states are preparing for war without even knowing the future enemy.
— Alfred Adler
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Pakistan is heir to an intellectual tradition of which the illustrious exponent was the poet and philosopher Mohammad Iqbal. He saw the future course for…
— Benazir Bhutto
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Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Insurance - an ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Land: A part of the earth's surface, considered as property. The theory that land is property subject to private ownership and control is the foundation…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Values unrelated to modern reality are not just electorally hopeless, the values themselves become devalued. They have no purchase on the real world.
— Tony Blair
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