Quotes of: Modern-poetry Keyword

The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible.

Alan Watts

All handling by IPCC of the Sea Level questions have been done in a way that cannot be accepted and that certainly not concur with modern knowledge of the mode and mechanism of sea level changes.

Nils-Axel Morner

If you want to write something of length, however modern and radical, you must live the life of an elderly gentleman of the 1950s.

Arthur Smith

Modern man is frantically trying to earn enough to buy things he's too busy to enjoy.

Frank A. Clark

A modern man registers a hundred times more sensory impressions than an eighteenth-century artist

Fernand Leger

The Vikings colonized Britain, and a lot of our modern day towns are named after Viking names that settled these big towns.

George Blagden

It is no coincidence that the growth of modern tyrants has in every case been heralded by the growth of prejudice.

Henry A. Wallace

The problem with being an author in this modern world is such: computers break often; books don't

Emma Iadanza

I don't have any of the modern stuff. I don't have e-mail. I don't have a computer!

Elmore Leonard

Extol Jewish virtue, modern Zionism and the Israeli Defense Forces.

Geraldo Rivera

Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.

George Santayana

Being on Broadway is the modern equivalent of being a monk. I sleep a lot, eat a lot, and rest a lot.

Hugh Jackman

The rise of the Dutch Republic must ever be regarded as one of the leading events of modern times.

John Lothrop Motley

I find as much inspiration from the forerunners of jazz as I do the modern-day innovators of jazz.

John Scofield

Foreign capital to build new cinemas will help modernize China's aging cinema infrastructure, attract Chinese consumers back into cinemas, and increase demand for U.S. films.

Jack Valenti

Scores of Congolese die each day unnecessarily due to the lack of access to healthcare and modern medicine.

Dikembe Mutombo

Well, opera began with an intent to resuscitate Greek drama, that is, modern opera as we know it.

John Eaton

I think that there is absolutely no free market in modern industrial states.

Jeane Kirkpatrick

The growth of modern constitutional government compels for its successful practice the exercise of reason and considerate judgment by the individual citizens who constitute the electorate.

Elihu Root

I think a lot of modern day guitarists start off playing like Eddie van Halen, and they don't take the time to learn the basics.

Alvin Lee

For many in the modern world, carving out time for both traditional seated meditation and exercise has become close to impossible.

Andrew Weil