Quotes of: Modern-education Keyword

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

One cannot spend one's time in being modern when there are so many more important things to be.

Wallace Stevens

For most people, the major hurdle in grasping modern insights into the nature of the universe is that these developments are usually phrased using mathematics.

Brian Greene

With the world's human population now at seven billion and growing, and the demand for technology and modern conveniences increasing, we can't control all our negative impacts. But we have to find better ways to live within the limits nature and its ...

David Suzuki

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