Quotes of: Modern-times Keyword

The reason for the sadness of this modern age and the men who live in it is that it looks for the truth in everything and finds it.

Edmond de Goncourt

The wonderful thing about modern medicine is that so many of these complaints that used to signify old age and decline can be coped with.

Ian Mckellen

Progressive policies implemented since the early 1900s launched America into the modern age and created a vibrant middle class.

Keith Ellison

In our modern age - in the age of free information - I don't think there is any place for dictatorships.

Rashid al-Ghannushi

Most poetry in the modern age has retreated to the private sphere, turning its back on the political realm.

Terry Eagleton

In my experience, if you have to keep the lavatory door shut by extending your left leg, it's modern architecture.

Nancy Banks Smith

Indeed, artists, particularly modern artists, have intentionally limited the scope and vocabulary of their expression to convey, as Mark Rothko and Ad Reinhardt do, the most essential, even spiritual, ideas of their art.

Eric Kandel

That's something lacking in a lot of modern-day families - just talking. It's almost a lost art form.

Ryan Kwanten

To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.

An Ideal Husband

World needs a new order of modern economy.

Master of Stupidity

Charles McCarry is the best modern writer on the subject of intrigue - by the breadth of Alan Furst, by the fathom of Eric Ambler, by any measure.

P. J. O'Rourke

What interests me, and has always interested me, has been modernism.

Peter Gay

Modern American magic, late 20th century magic, is tremendously disrespectful of the audience.

Penn Jillette

Not much was really invented during the Renaissance, if you don't count modern civilization.

P. J. O'Rourke

We are similar to a museum. My function is to present old masterpieces in modern frames.

Rudolf Bing

I got into trad jazz, then modern jazz, then avant-garde jazz, between the ages of 16 to 18.

Roy Harper

The biggest threats to human survival today are not wars or conflict, it is modern business.

Steven Magee

The printing press is the greatest weapon in the armoury of the modern commander.

T. E. Lawrence

I want everyone to wear what they want and mix it in their own way. That, to me, is what is modern.

Karl Lagerfeld

Modern man is probably a more humiliated and depressed creature than he dares to know.

Michael Leunig

In the modern world there's no such thing as formality. A dinner jacket used to mean a tuxedo, you know?

Noah Emmerich