Modern Quotes

3241 Modern quotes by 2096 unique authors

My style for the moment is modern mystic priestess. — Elisa Jimenez
Lili manages to mix Kate Bush with modern influences to make a beautifully unique sound based around her amazing violin skills and soulful voice. — Steve Lillywhite
The link between literacy and revolutions is a well-known historical phenomenon. The three great revolutions of modern European history -- the English, the French and… — Orlando Figes
Paul Davies takes us on a logically and rhetorically compelling modern search for human agency. This outstanding analysis, well informed by naturalistic views of our… — Jaak Panksepp
I think the stage is set for the appearance of new faiths, centred on the UFO belief. To a greater degree than all phenomena modern… — Jacques Vallee
Does it sound outrageous to you that military spending for fiscal year 2000 will be almost $290 billion and all other domestic discretionary spending, such… — Unknown Author
There is not way that you can have a decent life as a man if you aren't awake and aware every moment. Show up for… — Eustace Conway
When I design a collection I strive to make a woman feel as special as the delicate creation she is wearing; take her to an… — Unknown Author
The Naked Socialist connects the ancient order of oppression with the modern order of oppression. The Naked Socialist is a fabulous book and we need… — Unknown Author
Modern capitalism, organising the reduction of all social life to a spectacle, cannot offer any spectacle other than that of our own alienation. — Unknown Author
Moshe Sluhovsky's fascinating study links spirit possession, exorcism, and mystical practice in early modern Europe. Women and men, healers and priestly exorcisers are caught up… — Natalie Zemon Davis
Carla Hesse has given us an astonishing new look at women's struggle for independent expression and moral autonomy during the French Revolution and afterward. Denied… — Natalie Zemon Davis
Modern man has yielded to the harsh, the crude, the vulgar, the profane, the immoral. — Robert L. Millet
In The Jack Daniels Sessions, folktales and modern landscapes collide, exploding and reforming in the form of an intriguing and intelligent collection. Cotman seizes the… — Unknown Author
In Egypt, a civil state means a modern nationalist state that is compatible with Islamist provisions. — Ali Gomaa
The Italian gangster thing has become a form of the modern-day Western — Armand Assante
Nobody in America, in the modern generation, has read their mythology or legends. — Kenneth Anger
Fathers in today's modern families can be so many things. — Oliver Hudson
Modern life demands, and is waiting for, a new kind of plan, both for the house and the city. — Le Corbusier
So here I stand before you preaching organic architecture: declaring organic architecture to be the modern ideal and the teaching so much needed if we… — Frank Lloyd Wright
A modern, harmonic and lively architecture is the visible sign of authentic democracy. — Walter Gropius
A modern building should derive its architectural significance solely from the vigour and consequence of its own organic proportions. It must be true to itself,… — Walter Gropius
Russel Wright was the most responsible for the shift in taste toward modern in the late 1930s. — George Nelson
For several centuries Western civilization has had a drive for material accumulation, continual extensions of economic power, termed 'progress'...The longing for growth is not wrong.… — Gary Snyder
A book ... unlike a television program, moving picture or any other 'modern means of communication' ... can wait for years, yet be available at… — Joseph Wood Krutch

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