Quotes of: Modern-times Keyword

The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.

Ezra Pound

Unlimited choice is paralyzing. The Internet has made this form of paralysis due to option overload a standard feature of comfortable modern life.

Susan Orlean

I am not a modern man, I am just a wee old fashioned one.

Ian Hamilton Finlay

HOBBES: All this modern technology just makes people try to do everything at once.

Bill Watterson

You've got to respond to that and of course thinking through the role of a left party in the modern world, in the modern economy and society and having a policy response to that.

Patricia Hewitt

In the conditions of modern life the rule is absolute, the race which does not value trained intelligence is doomed.

Alfred North Whitehead

Today, what's normal is being redefined: from vaginal birth to surgical birth; from 'My water broke,' to 'Let's break your water;' from 'It's time' to 'It's time for the induction.' As medical anthropologist Robbie Davis-Floyd writes, 'in the early t...

Pushed: The Painful Truth About Childbirth and Modern Maternity Care

Yossarian was moved very deeply by the absolute simplicity of this clause of Catch-22 and let out a respectful whistle. 'That's some catch, that Catch-22,' he observed. 'It's the best there is,' Doc Daneeka agreed. Yossarian saw it clearly in all its...

Catch-22

Sadly but, perhaps, not altogether unexpectedly this society has had very limited success in achieving what is supposed to be the justification for its existence-- the greatest amount of happiness for the greatest possible number of people. In so far...

King of the Castle: Choice and Responsibility in the Modern World

I’d been traveling in Asia long enough to know that monkeys there are nothing like their trombone-playing, tambourine-banging cousins I’d seen on TV as a kid. Free-living Asian primates possess a characteristic I found shocking and confusing the ...

Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality

To the chefs who pioneered the nouvelle cuisine in France, the cuisine they were rebelling against looked timeless, primordial, old as the hills. But the cookbook record proves that the haute cuisine codified early in this century by Escoffier barely...

Why We Eat What We Eat: How Columbus Changed the Way the World Eats

Why write wrong if the writing won’t right the wrong? (90)

Death's Door: Modern Dying and the Ways We Grieve

[P]ower is at its most potent when it can operate silently.

Early Modern England: A Social History 1550 1760

What is the relation between Christianity and modern culture; may Christianity be maintained in a scientific age? It is this problem which modern liberalism attempts to solve.

John Gresham Machen

High and low culture come together in all Post Modern art, and American poetry is not excluded from this.

Diane Wakoski

In its most limited sense, modern, art would seem to concern itself only with the technical innovations of the period.

Edward Hopper

It is one of the primary motives of modern art that it wants to abolish the distance which the viewer, the consumer, the audience maintain vis-a-vis a work of art.

Hans-Georg Gadamer

Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.

John Ciardi

The strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art.

Jackson Pollock

I'm going to start these art museums that are basically converted homes, and I have one for modern art, and I have one for 19th century European art, and one for French impressionism. I've got Japanese.

Larry Ellison

You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself.

Milan Kundera