Quotes of: Modern-culture Keyword

'In many ways, I was born a hundred years too late. I often feel out of kilter with the modern world.

Honeysuckle Weeks

Our approach to economic development must be modern, focused and in tune with the global trend.

Ibrahim Babangida

The figure of Satan and the fires of hell have been demythologized by modern Christian biblical scholars, theologians and philosophers.

John Bradshaw

In terms of publicity and interviews, well, it's really hard in this modern world to keep a sense of mystery.

Jason Clarke

I don't take modern hip-hop as real. It's entertaining, it's fake, like James Bond.

Emmanuel Jal

The new physics provides a modern version of ancient spirituality. In a universe made out of energy, everything is entangled; everything is one.

Bruce Lipton

Nowadays there is more dynamism in chess, modern players like to take the initiative. Usually they are poor defenders though.

Boris Spassky

The reason there's no modern-day Shakespeare is because he didn't have anything to do except sit in a room with a candle and think.

Chris Cornell

Modern-day cinema takes the form of a sermon. You don't get to think, you only get to receive information.

Gus Van Sant

But that woman is an encyclopedia! Of all vices, ancient and modern, and terribly interesting to leaf through!

Jean Lorrain

Anyone who lives like a modern aristocracy, the last thing they exhibit is a sense of gratitude. Me, I'm very fortunate.

James Ransone

There is no word more generally misinterpreted than the word egoism, in its modern sense.

John Buchanan Robinson

Modern travelling is not travelling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel.

John Ruskin

Modern traveling is not traveling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel.

John Ruskin

That's why modern corporate movie making has become so laborious that comedians are kind of kicked out by 50.

Dana Carvey

I always say that modernization is not an abstract thing; it's a very specific task.

Dmitry Medvedev

The goal of modern propaganda is no longer to transform opinion but to arouse an active and mythical belief.

Jacques Ellul

I think I was first to do live performances on a modern electronic sound synthesizer.

John Eaton

Anything based on ancient texts is difficult for a modern reader to get their head around.

Joanne Harris

In sum, thought and reflection have been rendered thoroughly pointless by the circumstances in which modern men and women live and act.

Jacques Ellul

The modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating.

Jackson Pollock