Modern Quote by Ian Hamilton Finlay Download Open image “I am not a modern man, I am just a wee old fashioned one.” — Ian Hamilton Finlay ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Modern Modern man Old fashion Old fashioned
I am very traditional as a man. I am not modern and never have been. I think I was born 50 years of age… — David Suchet Copy Share Image
I am a modern girl but I carry traditional values with me. I can't leave them just in the name of being modern. — Rimi Sen Copy Share Image
Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid. — Salvador Dali Copy Share Image
I am always a beginner. I only try to include different parts of life; the pastoral, the tragic, et cetera. — Ian Hamilton Finlay Copy Share Image
I have often said that just as the French revolution, for instance, understood itself through antiquity, I think our time can be understood through… — Ian Hamilton Finlay Copy Share Image
But I can only write what the muse allows me to write. I cannot choose, I can only do what I am given, and… — Ian Hamilton Finlay Copy Share Image
But you have to understand that I consider myself a very modest artist, or whatever, and not of importance really at all - it… — Ian Hamilton Finlay Copy Share Image
However, I don't feel the world is looking over my shoulder when I am working - I never think about this at all. What… — Ian Hamilton Finlay Copy Share Image
The same sort of thing happened in my dispute with the National Trust book: Follies: A National Trust Guide, which implied that the only… — Ian Hamilton Finlay Copy Share Image
If the work is pure then you have to think it could be understood. If it is not understood it doesn't mean that your… — Ian Hamilton Finlay Copy Share Image
Certain gardens are described as retreats when they are really attacks. — Ian Hamilton Finlay Copy Share Image
No, I don't make my work in order to challenge or confuse other people's expectations - I only do what I find natural. — Ian Hamilton Finlay Copy Share Image
Little Sparta is a garden in the traditional sense. It is perhaps not like other modern gardens, but I think that other times would… — Ian Hamilton Finlay Copy Share Image
As a friendly one. I would still like to write concrete poems, but I can only do it sometimes. — Ian Hamilton Finlay Copy Share Image
Forcing modern speakers of English to not - whoops, not to split an infinitive because it isn't done in Latin makes about as much… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
A lot of indigenous cultures are deeply involved in working with ancestor spirits, elemental spirits, and demons. Many of these cultures feel that, if you don't deal properly with ancestor spirits, then they come back and infest the living in the form of things like depression, addictive patterns, and neuroses. We in the modern West completely deny the existence of… — Daniel Pinchbeck Copy Share
Success doesn't have a downside for me. I'm busy, but I've always been busy whatever job I've had. My very first job working in… — Victoria Derbyshire Copy Share Image
... how much of our inner substance is it good for us to give to public griefs? The whole modern tendency to agonize over… — Louise Bogan Copy Share Image
If japa is maintained, no useless talk during work will be possible. The mind will always remain peaceful. Modern day diseases are mostly psychosomatic.… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
Life as we know it is fundamentally unsatisfying. I think most folks feel this to be true. They know that a life of aimless consumption isn't much of a life. And work offers us very little satisfaction. Plus our work and consumption is destroying the environment. And this is in the rich countries. Add starvation, etc. to the mix, and… — Michael Yates Copy Share
Though my grandmother had picked up modern ideas in America, she still had some conflicting 19th-century Irish notions. She believed that daughters, educated though… — Rosemary Mahoney Copy Share Image
The popular mind often pictures gigantic flying machines speeding across the Atlantic carrying innumerable passengers in a way analogous to our modern steam ships. . . it seems safe to say that such ideas are wholly visionary and even if the machine could get across with one or two passengers the expense would be prohibitive to any but the capitalist… — William Henry Pickering Copy Share
Like a child exploring the attic of an old house on a rainy day, discovering a trunk full of treasure and then calling all his brothers and sisters to share the find, Richard J. 'Foster has 'found' the spiritual disciplines that the modern world has stored away and forgot, and has excitedly called us to celebrate them. For they are,… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share
In comparative terms, there's no poverty in America by a long shot. Heritage Foundation political scientist Robert Rector has worked up figures showing that when the official U.S. measure of poverty was developed in 1963, a poor American family had an income twenty-nine times greater than the average per capita income in the rest of the world. An individual American… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share
Universities are the cathedrals of the modern age. They shouldn't have to justify their existence by utilitarian criteria. — David Lodge Copy Share Image
