Quotes of: Modern-world Keyword

I'm very classic and structural. I love clean lines and interesting, modern details. But I'm all about being streamlined - less is more.

Nina Garcia

Music is a continuum and the modern and avant-garde composers of today will be part of the standard repertoire 30 years from now.

Neville Marriner

The blues echoes right through into soul, R&B and hip hop. It's part of the make-up of modern music. You can't turn your back on the blues.

Ronnie Wood

Modern medical advances have helped millions of people live longer, healthier lives. We owe these improvements to decades of investment in medical research.

Ike Skelton

The Japanese keenly learned from Western civilisation in a bid to modernize and preserve the nation.

Akihito

It's a really weird thing, modern divorce. I found out I was getting divorced on television. That was kind of weird.

Val Kilmer

I certainly look at the modern guys and think they are a different species to when we played. They are fitter and their conditioning is extraordinary.

Will Carling

One of my favorite modern American authors is Denis Johnson. I'm deeply inspired by all of his work - I rip him off constantly.

Conor Oberst

My whole drive to be an actor was finding roles that I really believed represent modern women, the struggles that we deal with. Women who are strong and capable and in control of their own lives.

Reese Witherspoon

If you want to go anywhere in modern war, in the air, on the sea, on the land, you must have command of the air.

William Halsey

Killing a man to save the world, does not save the world.

Chinese

'Beauty' is a currency system like the gold standard. Like any economy, it is determined by politics, and in the modern age in the West is is the last, best belief system that keeps male dominance intact.

Naomi Wolf

Nothing will see us through the age we're entering but high consciousness, and that comes hard. We don't have a good, modern myth yet, and we need one.

Robert Johnson

And Shanghai is amazing. I'm a fan of science fiction so when you're there in the night with all the lights and all this modernity, it's like a set in a movie.

Berenice Marlohe

I have trouble with modern art. But in general, all art forms fascinate me - art is the way human beings express what we can't say in words.

Andrea Bocelli

It does not seem that the contradiction which exists between the aristocratic function of art and the democratic structure of modern society can ever be resolved.

Herbert Read

Like most modern Americans, I assume individuality is not only a fundamental value, but a goal in life, an art form.

Howard Rheingold

Some of modern engineering is necessary to good art. But I think of myself is a cultural artist.

Larry Wall

Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.

Max Eastman

When you think about Dada and the great moments in Modern Art, it's always the sense of when you're not sure that art is most likely to be occurring.

Richard Phillips

In the glad old days, before the rise of modern morbidities...it used to be thought a disadvantage to be misunderstood.

Heretics