Comedy Quote by Milan Kundera Download Open image ““To be absolutely modern is to be the ally of one's grave diggers.”” — Milan Kundera ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Comedy Death Funny Modernity
“It may be that what we call modern is nothing, but what is not worthy of remaining to become old.” — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
“Modern people are just like ancient ones, only more numerous.” — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“Listen, To be modernize it doesn't mean to be rich in wealth or by status but to be rich in wisdom…!” — M.H. Rakib Copy Share Image
“We're all stronger than we know, and we're all meant to leave a legacy.” — Sara Bareilles Copy Share Image
“I am not averse to generalizing the notion of "modern" to designate a certain way of life, rather than making it purely a synonym… — Paul Valéry Copy Share Image
“Modernity is a busy place, spinning with silicon speed that goes ever faster but never forward, people pressed into cities full of loneliness.” — Douglas Wilson Copy Share Image
“Modern architecture has the potential to send you to an early grave.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
“Modernity proclaims rights without in any way providing the means to exercise them.” — Alain de Benoist Copy Share Image
“Man has been slipping backward for ages. The more advanced we became the more primitive we grew.” — Jennifer Ott Copy Share Image
“To be modern means to like antique furniture - and youthful neurosis.” — Hugo von Hofmannsthal Copy Share Image
“It is perhaps rather fine, after all, being dead. Highly underrated in the modern western world.” — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
“The future is only an indifferent void no one cares about, but the past is filled with life, and its countenance is irritating, repellent,… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“From that time on they both looked forward to sleeping together. I might even say that the goal of their lovemaking was not so much pleasure as the sleep that followed it. She especially was affected. Whenever she stayed overnight in her rented room (which quickly became only an alibi for Tomas), she was unable to fall asleep; in his… — Milan Kundera Copy Share
“Beauty in the European sense has always had a premeditated quality to it. We've always had an aesthetic intention and a long-range plan. That's what enabled western man to spend decades building a Gothic cathedral or a Renaissance piazza. The beauty of New York rests on a completely different base. It's unintentional. It arose independent of human designt, like a… — Milan Kundera Copy Share
The beauty of New York is unintentional; it arose independent of human design, like a stalagmite cavern. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Children, Never look Back!" and this meant that we must never allow the future to be weighed down by memory . for children have… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“Our lives may be separate, but they run in the same direction, like parallel lines.” — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“Having a child is to show an absolute accord with mankind. If I have a child, it's as though I'm saying: I was born… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Love is a battle," said Marie-Claude, still smiling. "And I plan to go on fighting. To the end." Love is a battle?" said Franz. "Well, I don't feel at all like fighting." And he left. — Milan Kundera Copy Share
“He remained annoyed with himself until he realized that not knowing what he wanted was actually quite natural. We can never know what to… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“Whenever I think about ancient cultures nostalgia seizes me. Perhaps this is nothing but envy of the sweet slowness of the history of that time. The era of ancient Egyptian culture lasted for several thousand years; the era of Greek antiquity for almost a thousand. In this respect, a single human life imitates the history of mankind; at first it… — Milan Kundera Copy Share
“Do stories, apart from happening, being, have something to say? For all my skepticism, some trace of irrational superstition did survive in me, the strange conviction, for example, that everything in life that happens to me also has a sense, that it means something, that life speaks to us about itself through its story, that it gradually reveals a secret,… — Milan Kundera Copy Share
'Mad TV' is one of my most favorite shows of all time and is a huge part of my obsession with sketch comedy. — Shane Dawson Copy Share Image
In the future, I would like to do more films with contemporary themes. Perhaps comedy, which is something I have done in theater but… — Luke Evans Copy Share Image
“Men circle like bees around honey, buzzing to communicate their sexual despair.” — Carla H Krueger Copy Share Image
You can't cheat comedy. You know, it either is going to be there on the day you capture or it's not. — Justin Lin Copy Share Image
I think if I have any kind of unique gift, it's more in the comedy area than it is in the dramatic area. — Susan Sullivan Copy Share Image
I always worked on holidays when I had to wait tables and stuff like that, so I'm used to it, but now I just… — Chris Redd Copy Share Image
There's nothing like the energy in a small comedy club room or a small theater when it's going really well. I can see everybody's… — Drew Carey Copy Share Image
God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny. — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
