Modern science is predicated on 'truths' verified through accurate observation and measurements of physical world phenomena.
The part of modern pop music I don't know much about is hip hop.
I did not want to be somebody who lived off his reputation. I wanted to continue to be part of the modern music scene.
Music is a gut thing. You're working in a medium which is more in touch with the primal than the modern. A gig is a ritual. There's a congregation.
I have a few friends that have inspired me since I was a young kid. When I watch old films or modern movies - particularly 'Gladiator,' 'New Jack City' and 'The Skin I Live In' - I'll also get ideas.
Modern diplomats approach every problem with an open mouth.
Financial crises are an unfortunate but necessary consequence of modern capitalism.
But I think it's quite clear in my work that my orientation isn't political or doesn't come out of modern politics.
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.
Father Roger Boscovich is often credited as the father of modern atomic theory.
I wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read.
The Conservative party, the modern Conservative party, is on the side of people who want to work hard and get on.
Is this the situation in the modern Conservative party? That women should be seen and not heard?
Only the man who disciplines himself strictly can stand for long the terrific pace of modern war.
Read for yourselves, read for the sake of your inspiration, for the sweet turmoil in your lovely head. But also read against yourselves, read for questioning and impotence, for despair and erudition, read the dry sardonic remarks of cynical philosoph...
I am—yet what I am none cares or knows; My friends forsake me like a memory lost: I am the self-consumer of my woes— They rise and vanish in oblivious host, Like shadows in love’s frenzied stifled throes And yet I am, and live—like vapours to...
The distinctive features of the world's civilisations are not simply and solely the giraffe and the city of Rome, as the children may perhaps have been led to imagine on the first evening, but also the elephant and the country of Denmark, beside many...
Patience isn't tested when it is self-imposed and the duration is self-regulated. Patience is hardly tested when the outcome means little to you. However, when circumstances beyond your control force you to wait with baited breath knowing the outcome...
Robert Frost didn’t like to explain his poems—and for good reason: to explain a poem is to suck the air from its lungs. This does not mean, however, that poets shouldn’t talk about their poetry, or that one shouldn’t ask questions about it. R...
Here with me, Near to me, Next to me, You put a hex on me, that fills me with Joy. Beside me, Inside of me, You hide in me, what you don't want others to know, what others won't understand. Safe in your embrace, the warmth of your face, takes me to a...
I love being able to see an un-written future.
