Quotes of: Modern-world Keyword

A modern man registers a hundred times more sensory impressions than an eighteenth-century artist

Fernand Leger

The Vikings colonized Britain, and a lot of our modern day towns are named after Viking names that settled these big towns.

George Blagden

It is no coincidence that the growth of modern tyrants has in every case been heralded by the growth of prejudice.

Henry A. Wallace

I don't have any of the modern stuff. I don't have e-mail. I don't have a computer!

Elmore Leonard

Extol Jewish virtue, modern Zionism and the Israeli Defense Forces.

Geraldo Rivera

Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.

George Santayana

Being on Broadway is the modern equivalent of being a monk. I sleep a lot, eat a lot, and rest a lot.

Hugh Jackman

The rise of the Dutch Republic must ever be regarded as one of the leading events of modern times.

John Lothrop Motley

I find as much inspiration from the forerunners of jazz as I do the modern-day innovators of jazz.

John Scofield

Foreign capital to build new cinemas will help modernize China's aging cinema infrastructure, attract Chinese consumers back into cinemas, and increase demand for U.S. films.

Jack Valenti

Scores of Congolese die each day unnecessarily due to the lack of access to healthcare and modern medicine.

Dikembe Mutombo

Well, opera began with an intent to resuscitate Greek drama, that is, modern opera as we know it.

John Eaton

I think that there is absolutely no free market in modern industrial states.

Jeane Kirkpatrick

The growth of modern constitutional government compels for its successful practice the exercise of reason and considerate judgment by the individual citizens who constitute the electorate.

Elihu Root

I think a lot of modern day guitarists start off playing like Eddie van Halen, and they don't take the time to learn the basics.

Alvin Lee

Elizabeth Taylor has reinvented herself and her image time and time again. The results have often helped redefine modern fashion.

Bo Derek

Your modern teenager is not about to listen to advice from an old person, defined as a person who remembers when there was no Velcro.

Dave Barry

The truth is, we haven't really figured out yet how artists are going to thrive in modern mass societies. We're all experiments.

Brad Holland

Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales.

Aleister Crowley

Scientific reality is the modern human condition, and you can see that in the symbolic nature of my work.

Thom Mayne

The susceptibility of the average modern to pictorial suggestion enables advertising to exploit his lessened power of judgment.

Johan Huizinga