Modern Quotes

In India there’s no modernism without barbarism. Strip away the young man’s face and you’ll find an old man’s mind.

~ Meghna Pant

I look up to the modern entrepreneurs, because the one’s from the old age, many are racist, even if no one knows about that part of their lives, but I am not so ignorant that I will not learn from their work to better my life.

~ James Jean-Pierre

Moderate giftedness has been made worthless by the printing press and radio and television and satellites and all that. A moderately gifted person who would have been a community treasure a thousand years ago has to give up, has to go into some other line of work, since modern communications put him or her into daily competition with nothing but the world's champions.

~ Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Soon all of you immortalsWill be as dead as we are! Come on then, what are you waiting for?Have you run out of thunderbolts?

~ Euripides

It shows a mediocre architect at the top of his game [on the Beetham Tower in Manchester]

~ Owen Hatherley

A modern woman sees a piece of linen, but the mediaeval woman saw through it to the flax fields, she smelt the reek of the retting ponds, she felt the hard rasp of the hackling, and she saw the soft sheen of the glossy flax. Man did not see 'just leather', he saw the beast - perhaps one of his own - and knew the effort of slaughtering, liming and curing.Communities were smaller and whether our man lived on the outskirts of some feudal system, had escaped from it, or was entirely isolated, he would work alone, or daily with the same fellow-workers - conversation would soon languish.But THINK he must.

~ Dorothy Hartley

Miracles are commonplace in religious scripture. Our ancient ancestors are said to have felt Jesus' wounds, verified Muhammad's ascent to heaven, and even interacted with their respective deities directly. Today, believers have no such luxury. They are forced to rely on blind faith that these things occurred, that people were at one time able to overcome or render inert natural laws.

~ David G. Mcafee

Hitting like on a social media platform is the modern day version of clapping at the end of a performance.

~ J.r. Rim

Search engines finds the information, not necessarily the truth.

~ Amit Kalantri

We have to believe in us. We're the miracle of modern and changing times. Share your talents and gift, inspire others and be inspired

~ Val Uchendu

To be healthy in modern society, you must adopt the behaviors of an astronaut!

~ Steven Magee

Every Nigerian must begin to raise their voice against our societal failures and call them as such at every juncture. In this way we could all bring about a modern, progressive and civilized society.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Eiffel Tower To Robert DelaunayEiffel Tower Guitar of the skyYour wireless telegraphy Attracts words As a rosebush the beesDuring the night The Seine no longer flowsTelescope or bugleEIFFEL TOWERAnd it's a hive of words Or an inkwell of honeyAt the bottom of dawn A spider with barbed-wire legs Was making its web of cloudsMy little boy To climb the Eiffel Tower You climb on a songDo re mi fa sol la ti do We are up on top A bird sings in the telegraph antennae It's the wind Of Europe The electric windOver there The hats fly away They have wings but they don't singJacqueline Daughter of France What do you see up thereThe Seine is asleep Under the shadow of its bridgesI see the Earth turning And I blow my bugleToward all the seasOn the path Of your perfume All the bees and the words go their wayOn the four horizons Who has not heard this song I AM THE QUEEN OF THE DAWN OF THE POLES I AM THE COMPASS THE ROSE OF THE WINDS THAT FADESEVERY FALLAND ALL FULL OF SNOW I DIE FROM THE DEATH OF THAT ROSE IN MY HEAD A BIRD SINGS ALL YEAR LONGThat's the way the Tower spoke to me one dayEiffel Tower Aviary of the world Sing SingChimes of ParisThe giant hanging in the midst of the void Is the poster of FranceThe day of Victory You will tell it to the stars

~ Vicente Huidobro

It has been wisely observed by the greatest of modern thinkers that mankind has progressed more rapidly in every other respect than in morality.

~ Lafcadio Hearn

The definition of a modern approach to war is the acknowledgement of individual lives lost.

~ Maya Lin

Hitler was so modern, in that he was obsessed with being famous. He was caught up with this rush to be have achieved greatness before turning 30.

~ John Cusack

If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.

~ Ursula K. Le Guin

As in biomedical science, pioneering industrial inventions have not been mothered by necessity. Rather, inventions for which there was no commercial use only later became the commercial airplanes, xerography and lasers on which modern society depends.

~ Arthur Kornberg

All old music was modern once, and much more of the music of yesterday already sounds more old-fashioned than works which were written three centuries ago.

~ Peter Warlock

There's definitely an old school element to my music, but I also think it's modern.

~ Lenny Kravitz

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

Mies van der Rohe's architecture and modern architecture in general suffered from not only being repetitive, but not explaining to the populous what the different rooms were for.

~ Charles Jencks

Modern Architecture died in St. Louis, Missouri, on July 15, 1972, at 3.32 p.m. (or thereabouts), when the infamous Pruitt Igoe scheme, or rather several of its slab blocks, were given the final coup de grace by dynamite.

~ Charles Jencks

Modern architecture needed to be part of an evolutionary, not a revolutionary, process.

~ I. M. Pei

The modern diet is grossly deficient in hundreds of important plant-derived immunity-building compounds which makes us highly vulnerable to viruses, infections and disease.

~ Joel Fuhrman

Accountants, machinists, medical technicians, even software writers that write the software for 'machines' are being displaced without upscaled replacement jobs. Retrain, rehire into higher paying and value-added jobs? That may be the political myth of the modern era. There aren't enough of those jobs.

~ Bill Gross

The modern composer builds upon the foundation of truth.

~ Claudio Monteverdi

What we want from modern dance is courage and audacity.

~ Twyla Tharp

I gravitated towards the field of clothing design, partly because it is a creative format that is modern and optimistic.

~ Issey Miyake

The strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art.

~ Jackson Pollock

Art cannot be modern. Art is primordially eternal.

~ Egon Schiele

However, we might oppose it, abortion is a sad feature of modern life.

~ Robert Casey

The so-called modern education, with all its defects, however, does others so much more good than it does the Negro, because it has been worked out in conformity to the needs of those who have enslaved and oppressed weaker peoples.

~ Carter G. Woodson

Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.

~ John Ruskin

If your kid doesn't have broadband access, that's a real disadvantage for participating in modern education.

~ Julius Genachowski

I have two bikes: a classic 1978 Yamaha SR500 and a more modern Suzuki SV650. I've been into cars and bikes since I was tiny.

~ Thomas Sangster

More modern poetry is written than read.

~ P. J. O'rourke

When the modern movement began, starting perhaps with the paintings of Manet and the poetry of Baudelaire and Rimbaud, what distinguished the modern movement was the enormous honesty that writers, painters and playwrights displayed about themselves. The bourgeois novel flinches from such notions.

~ J. G. Ballard

The great watershed of modern poetry is French, more than English.

~ Robert Morgan

I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry.

~ Randall Jarrell