I'm a modern Muslim. I pray, and if I have a question, I ask someone who is more educated in the religion than me.
The eternal and uneasy relationship between ballet and modern dance endures, but radically altered in tone and intensity.
Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them.
I'm very classic and structural. I love clean lines and interesting, modern details. But I'm all about being streamlined - less is more.
Music is a continuum and the modern and avant-garde composers of today will be part of the standard repertoire 30 years from now.
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.
Modern medical advances have helped millions of people live longer, healthier lives. We owe these improvements to decades of investment in medical research.
The Japanese keenly learned from Western civilisation in a bid to modernize and preserve the nation.
It's a really weird thing, modern divorce. I found out I was getting divorced on television. That was kind of weird.
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.
One of my favorite modern American authors is Denis Johnson. I'm deeply inspired by all of his work - I rip him off constantly.
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.
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.
History is the best guide to the future.
Christians should be ready for a change because Jesus was the greatest changer in history.
God has never, in the history of mankind, allowed his name to go long offended.
In consequence of 's reformed Theory of Descent, we are now in a position to establish scientifically the groundwork of a non-miraculous history of the development of the human race. ... If any person feels the necessity of conceiving the coming into...
The Renaissance did not break completely with mediaeval history and values. Sir Philip Sidney is often considered the model of the perfect Renaissance gentleman. He embodied the mediaeval virtues of the knight (the noble warrior), the lover (the man ...
As we parted at the Natural History Museum in London, I asked Richard Fortey how science ensures that when one person goes there's someone ready to take his place. He chuckled rather heartily at my naiveté. 'I'm afraid it's not as if we have substit...
Oh, he shouldn't be surprised, he's a Marxist and has nothing but contempt for the bourgeois capitalist press, yet paradoxically he is also somehow an Americanist and a believer in Science and Freedom and History and Reason, and it dismays him to see...
What struck me as I began to study history was how nationalist fervor--inculcated from childhood on by pledges of allegiance, national anthems, flags waving and rhetoric blowing--permeated the educational systems of all countries, including our own. ...
