Quotes of: Modern-times Keyword

Men in western governments who were themselves are often modern men, did not understand that freedom without chaos is not a magic formula which can be implanted anywhere. Rather, being modern men, it was their view that, because human race had evolve...

Francis A. Schaeffer

Irony - The modern mode: either the devil’s mark or the snorkel of sanity.

Flaubert's Parrot

I think computer science, by and large, is still stuck in the Modern age.

Larry Wall

Yet for my part, deeply as I am moved by the religious architecture of the Middle Ages, I cannot honestly say that I ever felt the slightest emotion in any modern Gothic church.

Goldwin Smith

One of the most persistent yet elusive dreams of the Modern Movement in architecture has been prefabrication: industrially made structures that can be assembled at a building site.

Martin Filler

There is no sadder tale in the annals of architecture than the virtual disappearance of the defining architectural form of the Modern Movement - publicly sponsored housing.

Martin Filler

Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.

Charles Baudelaire

Modernity signifies the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art of which the other half is the eternal and the immutable.

Charles Baudelaire

It is not possible to overstate the influence of Paul Cezanne on twentieth-century art. He's the modern Giotto, someone who shattered one kind of picture-making and invented a new one that the world followed.

Jerry Saltz

I want a man who watches me walk away.

Modern Happiness

Art always penetrates the particular fissures in one's psychic life.

The Swerve: How the World Became Modern

Though a modern woman’s computer is more intimate than her bed...

Preemptive Revenge

Contemporary' was in those days [1953] synonymous with 'modern' as it had not been before and is not now [1977].

The Virgin in the Garden

A modern fleet of ships does not so much make use of the sea as exploit a highway.

Joseph Conrad

We betray our modern arrogance and forget the place of mystery in God's dealing with us.

Os Guinness

The accusation that we've lost our soul resonates with a very modern concern about authenticity.

Patricia Hewitt

I'm a fan of books that are almost languorous in their storytelling. That is a little bit lost sometimes in the modern media that we have.

Patrick Rothfuss

It was my Uncle George who discovered alcohol was a food well in advance of modern medical thought.

P.G. Wodehouse

People-trafficking is modern day slavery. There are more slaves today than there were at the height of the slave trade.

Ross Kemp

That was the beginning of modern acting for me. You don't have to tell a camera everything. It gets bored if you do and wants to look elsewhere.

Stephen Rea

We decided to do some of Merle's things with modern instrumentation. We used a flute, a bass clarinet, a trumpet, a clarinet, drums, a guitar, vibes and a piano.

Tennessee Ernie Ford