Quotes of: Modern-times Keyword

The art of phlebotomy originated with bloodletting in 1400 B.C., and the modern clinical lab emerged in the 1960s - and it has not fundamentally evolved since then. You go in, sit down, they put a tourniquet on your arm, stick you with a needle, take...

Elizabeth Holmes

The two World Wars came in part, like much modern literature and art, because men, whose nature is to tire of everything in turn... tired of common sense and civilization.

F. L. Lucas

I had art as a major, along with English, French and History. I had dance, modern dance. In English I was allowed to write my own poetry, which I eventually got published.

Sally Kirkland

What if every church in America had a ministry to stand against modern slavery?

Activist Faith: From Him and For Him

His attitude to physical clues was rather like that of the modern Christian to miracles. They could happen, but probably not just at the moment.

An April Shroud

The modern notion of art is an essentially religious or magical one in which the artist is viewed as a holy beast who in some way, big or small, receives flashes from the godhead, which is known as creativity.

Tom Wolfe

What is extraordinary about contemporary art is the energy - it has our energy. New energy. Pieces hundreds of years old are beautiful from an aesthetic point of view, but without our modern energy.

Victor Pinchuk

I do not know by what extraordinary mental accident modern writers so constantly connect the idea of progress with the idea of independent thinking.

Heretics

The modern research laboratory can be a large and complicated social organism.

How to Win the Nobel Prize: An Unexpected Life in Science

The modern state does not comprehend how anyone can be guided by something other than itself. In its eyes pluralism is treason.

Ideas Have Consequences

Somebody must trespass on the taboos of modern nationalism, in the interests of human reason. Business can't. Diplomacy won't. It has to be people like us.

The Road to Oxiana

Sometimes it feels as though happiness is just a word people say to hide the despair of not knowing anything.

Modern Happiness

A modern philosopher who has never once suspected himself of being a charlatan must be such a shallow mind that his work is probably not worth reading.

Metaphysical Horror

Modern intelligence won't accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.

The Man Who Knew Too Much

There was altogether too much candor in married life; it was an indelicate modern idea, and frequently led to upsets in a household, if not divorce...

Memento mori

I am going to hold a pistol to the head of the Modern Man. But I shall not use it to kill him–only to bring him to life.

Manalive

We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate; it oppresses.

Modern Man in Search of a Soul

What Shelley's world of Prometheus Unbound really has to fear is not resurrection of Jupiter but the resurrection of John Donne.

Modern Poetry and the Tradition

Compared to the unleashed forces of warfare and of faith, Mount Vesuvius was kinder to the legacy of antiquity.

The Swerve: How the World Became Modern

The PM glanced a look of pure malevolence. A terrifying glimpse into what madness, ego and naked ambition it takes to lead a modern democracy.

Spaceship Over Vancouver

Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.

The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary