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.
If we steal thoughts from the moderns, it will be cried down as plagiarism; if from the ancients, it will be cried up as erudition.
The fact is that much misunderstanding is often caused by our modern attempts to limit too strictly the meaning of a Greek word.
What description of clouds and sunsets was to the old novelist, description of scientific apparatus and methods is to the modern Scientific Detective writer.
The chief modern rival of Christianity is 'liberalism'... at every point, the two movements are in direct opposition.
We modern Marxists regard socialism as a historically brief transitional stage between feudalism and capitalism, necessary only in backward countries.
I generally hate the luxury modern apartment with too many things out of sight and so clean you cannot touch.
The modern artist... is working and expressing an inner world - in other words - expressing the energy, the motion, and other inner forces.
I had changed from being a mathematician to a practicing scientist. I was increasingly embarassed that I could no longer follow some of the more modern branches of pure mathematics.
I just completed The Tenth Circle. It is an excellent mystery story surrounding a family with modern day issues.
Virtually all modern forms of extremism accuse liberal Western democratic systems of being hypocritical and, ultimately, weak.
Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan. They'd all fit more under the Libertarian label than the modern day Republican label.
We must take steps to prevent further nuclear weapons development or modernization.
I always believe the rule by king or official leader is outdated. Now we must catch up with the modern world.
Modern low temperature physics began with the liquefaction of helium by Kamerlingh Onnes and the discovery of superconductivity at the University of Leiden in the early part of the 20th century.
My house is modern, but I like my writing room to be old fashioned. I write on a little wooden secretary desk.
In modern novels, there is no one I want to copy. My style 'is a poor thing, but it is my own.'
That said, there are certainly still cooks out there who make fantastic historical cornbreads, though the old recipes have often been changed to include modern techniques and ingredients.
A key sociological factor underlying the prevalence of zombies as a theme in modern culture is that zombie movies are cheap as hell to make.
J.K. Rowling is a talented storyteller, but she has also used the style and technique of modern television and cinema media, which seizes the imagination by pummelling it, bombarding it with powerful stimuli, in a rapid pace, with plenty of emotional...
The fictive structure, my work, my imagination, my books are about the details, the huge construction about culture, Islamic culture or modern Turkey. They're all intertwined.
