Imagine trying to be a gay actor, a gay anything in modern Russia? Where to be positively oneself, to be affectionate in public with someone you love of the same gender, or to talk of that love in the hearing of anyone under 18, will put you prison?
The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is.
In 2005 we have a once in a generation opportunity to deliver a modern Marshall plan for the developing world.
I don't think you can be a credible, modern candidate for president without making the environment a major part of your platform.
Most of the books that feature supernatural characters blending with the modern world and are usually set in big cities.
Modern warfare is by no means merely a matter of military operations. Economic affairs stand together with them in the first rank of the factors of importance.
Conservatives have no understanding of modern capitalism. They have a distorted understanding of the traditional values they claim to defend.
There is a strange idea abroad that in every subject the ancient book should be read only by the professionals, and the amateur should content himself with modern books.
When modern writers gave up telling stories, they gave up the greatest thing we had.
It's very rare to see an undisturbed birth in a modern U.S. teaching hospital, but when you see a woman who isn't frightened, who's giving birth without interference, you stand back in awe and realize how little needed you are except in the rare circ...
Bill Gallagher's new version of 'The Prisoner' is an enthralling commentary on modern culture. It is witty, intelligent and disturbing. I am very excited to be involved.
I do remember a lot of teachers saying I would do well on TV, as I have a 'modern look,' but I never knew how to take that.
Cablegate is 3,000 volumes of material. It is the greatest intellectual treasure to have entered into the public record in modern times.
It may be said that modern Europe with teachers who inform it that its realist instincts are beautiful, acts ill and honors what is ill.
When modern political Zionism emerged around the turn of the twentieth century, most Orthodox Jews opposed it.
A period film, where you, for example, where you have a traditional wardrobes, you are bound to act a certain way. But in a modern film, a lot of body gesture.
When I was 14 years old, I was a huge fan of the Velvets, the Stooges and the Modern Lovers. They are my three favourite bands. I never get sick of 'em.
All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.
Style is the most valuable asset of the modern artist. That's probably why so many styles are reported lost or stolen each year.
If one looks at the works of Newton to Einstein, they were never scientists in the way modernity understands the term.
To modernize their sleeping habits, [Peter the Great] declared, 'Ladies and gentlemen of the court caught sleeping with their boots on will be instantly decapitated.
