Quotes of: Modern-times Keyword

Today you go into make a modern recording with all this technology. The bass plays first, then the drums come in later, then they track the trumpet and the singer comes in and they ship the tape somewhere. Well, none of the musicians have played toge...

Wynton Marsalis

There's nowhere like Detroit; it's a modern necropolis: all these art deco masterpieces crumbling away.

Malik Bendjelloul

The default mode of modern writing about art is to despise any notion of singularity as so much overheated genius-fetishism.

Simon Schama

False fears are a plague, a modern plague!

State of Fear

There is something very morbid about modern sympathy with pain.

Oscar Wilde

The modern horror audience is wise to our tricks this lets it in on the gag.

Robert Englund

Everything in a modern container port is enormous, overwhelming, crushing.

Rose George

I suppose I see myself as a modern soul artist.

Lianne La Havas

Now there is in a way a renaissance of modern dance - suddenly, it is more respected and discovered.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother.

Susan B. Anthony

French design hardly exists, except as artificial modernism.

Christian Lacroix

I really like the bohemian look, and I'm a great fan of mixing vintage and modern.

Kierston Wareing

Democracy, good governance and modernity cannot be imported or imposed from outside a country.

Emile Lahoud

Real family values have gone down the drain in modern families.

Wes Borland

The medieval university looked backwards; it professed to be a storehouse of old knowledge. The modern university looks forward, and is a factory of new knowledge.

Thomas Huxley

The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yogurt.

John Mortimer

Memorials become relics if they do not stir our modern conscience.

Henry Waxman

In these days of modern tennis a player is as strong as his weakest stroke.

Bill Tilden

We didn't reinvent the circus. We repackaged it in a much more modern way.

Guy Laliberte

The modern video games kind of - they're too three dimensional.

Dan Auerbach

Demonic figures and occult themes have disappeared from modern magic.

David Copperfield