Quotes of: Modern-civilization Keyword

The eternal and uneasy relationship between ballet and modern dance endures, but radically altered in tone and intensity.

Robert Gottlieb

Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them.

Martin H. Fischer

I'm very classic and structural. I love clean lines and interesting, modern details. But I'm all about being streamlined - less is more.

Nina Garcia

Music is a continuum and the modern and avant-garde composers of today will be part of the standard repertoire 30 years from now.

Neville Marriner

The blues echoes right through into soul, R&B and hip hop. It's part of the make-up of modern music. You can't turn your back on the blues.

Ronnie Wood

Modern medical advances have helped millions of people live longer, healthier lives. We owe these improvements to decades of investment in medical research.

Ike Skelton

The Japanese keenly learned from Western civilisation in a bid to modernize and preserve the nation.

Akihito

It's a really weird thing, modern divorce. I found out I was getting divorced on television. That was kind of weird.

Val Kilmer

I certainly look at the modern guys and think they are a different species to when we played. They are fitter and their conditioning is extraordinary.

Will Carling

One of my favorite modern American authors is Denis Johnson. I'm deeply inspired by all of his work - I rip him off constantly.

Conor Oberst

My whole drive to be an actor was finding roles that I really believed represent modern women, the struggles that we deal with. Women who are strong and capable and in control of their own lives.

Reese Witherspoon

If you want to go anywhere in modern war, in the air, on the sea, on the land, you must have command of the air.

William Halsey

Institutions or products of culture. But they formalize a set of norms.

Civilization: The Six Ways the West Beat the Rest

Guess that's thirty-one pieces of silver you've got now, huh? Sleep well, Judas.

Civil War

A civilized woman's demands: A man who will (1) make her come … sometimes; but (2) pay the bills … at all times.

Divided & Conquered

Only the language of civilized people may be spoken, thus no German.

The Diary of a Young Girl

The measure of civilized behavior is compassion.

Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town

Perhaps that is the greatest crime of conquest--that a civilization is denied the right to evolve beyond its own embarrassment.

Downsiders

The barbeque is the root of all civilization

Future Food: How Cutting Edge Technology & 3D Printing Will Change the Way You Eat

There's no such thing as civilization. The word just means the art of living in cities.

The Great Book of Amber

Fain would we remain barbarians, if our claim to civilization were to be based on the gruesome glory of war.

The Book of Tea