Quotes of: Modern-age Keyword

Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.

George Santayana

Being on Broadway is the modern equivalent of being a monk. I sleep a lot, eat a lot, and rest a lot.

Hugh Jackman

The rise of the Dutch Republic must ever be regarded as one of the leading events of modern times.

John Lothrop Motley

I find as much inspiration from the forerunners of jazz as I do the modern-day innovators of jazz.

John Scofield

Scores of Congolese die each day unnecessarily due to the lack of access to healthcare and modern medicine.

Dikembe Mutombo

Well, opera began with an intent to resuscitate Greek drama, that is, modern opera as we know it.

John Eaton

I think that there is absolutely no free market in modern industrial states.

Jeane Kirkpatrick

The growth of modern constitutional government compels for its successful practice the exercise of reason and considerate judgment by the individual citizens who constitute the electorate.

Elihu Root

I think a lot of modern day guitarists start off playing like Eddie van Halen, and they don't take the time to learn the basics.

Alvin Lee

For many in the modern world, carving out time for both traditional seated meditation and exercise has become close to impossible.

Andrew Weil

Elizabeth Taylor has reinvented herself and her image time and time again. The results have often helped redefine modern fashion.

Bo Derek

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

The truth is, we haven't really figured out yet how artists are going to thrive in modern mass societies. We're all experiments.

Brad Holland

Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales.

Aleister Crowley

Scientific reality is the modern human condition, and you can see that in the symbolic nature of my work.

Thom Mayne

The susceptibility of the average modern to pictorial suggestion enables advertising to exploit his lessened power of judgment.

Johan Huizinga

All the modern verse plays, they're terrible; they're mostly about the poetry. It's more important that the play is first.

Denis Johnson

From what the moderns want, we must learn what poetry should become; from what the ancients did, what poetry must be.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry.

Randall Jarrell

In science, read by preference the newest works. In literature, read the oldest. The classics are always modern.

Amy Lowell

In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature, the oldest. The classic literature is always modern.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton