Modern Quotes

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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
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
One of the most feared expressions in modern times is 'The computer is down.' — Norman Ralph Augustine
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
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
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
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
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
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
I've read some of your modern free verse and wonder who set it free. — John Barrymore
I kind of lost interest in the classical dance. I was very much interested in the modern choreography. — Mikhail Baryshnikov
Now there is in a way a renaissance of modern dance - suddenly, it is more respected and discovered. — Mikhail Baryshnikov
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
Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all. — John Berger
Our modern states are preparing for war without even knowing the future enemy. — Alfred Adler
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
Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught. — Ambrose Bierce
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
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
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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