Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chris Carter

are out of step with modern conservation approaches.

Neil Strauss

The modern player is totally under the radar.

Aubrey McClendon

Modern life would not be possible if it were not for chemicals, nor would modern natural gas production.

There are no four-letter words or vulgarity. It's got modern themes, but they are presented in an old-fashioned way.

E-traffickers are just a modern way of saying drug dealers,

We wanted to do modern Japanese. We wanted to tweak things, to play with ingredients.

Albert Einstein

If I had it [life] to do all over again, I'd have been a plumber.

E. F. Schumacher

The most striking thing about modern industry is that it requires so much and accomplishes so little.

Andrew Marr

The truth is, "What is a journalist?" is one of those questions for which there is no proper answer. The prehistory of modern journalism shows it has been a ragged and confusing trade all the way through.

D. H. Lawrence

The modern pantheist not only sees the god in everything, he takes photographs of it.

David Attenborough

All the modern devices we have enable us to investigate things and have enabled us to do better.

Amy Vanderbilt

The modern rule is that every woman should be her own chaperon.

Anthony Burgess

Great Music, it said, and Great Poetry would like quieten Modern Youth down and make Modern Youth more Civilized. Civilized my syphilised yarbles.

Andy Rooney

Let's face it, though, anything that's apt to happen to an appliance like a blender isn't covered by the warranty anyway, so I never send them in. If it breaks, I'll buy a new one. That's the American way.

Simone Weil

Modern life is given over to immoderation. Immoderation invades everything: actions and thought, public and private life.

Tim Gunn

I love Modern Family but it's among a handful of favorite shows.

Sam Levenson

I'm gonna put all my money into taxes. They're sure to go up.

Roland Emmerich

["2012"] it was really more about the subject matter, and to do a modern retelling of Noah's Ark, a flood story.

Roland Barthes

All of a sudden it didn't bother me not being modern.

Susan Griffin

Although the many virtues that courtesans possessed were employed to defy circumstances, the role they played depended on the same circumstances over which they triumphed- conditions which to, fortunately for modern women, no longer exist.

Meg Ryan

The best thing about modern living is anaesthesia.

P. J. O'Rourke

We are a nation that worships speed and power. And for good reason. Without power we would still be part of England and everybody would be out of work... Bicycles are too slow and impuissant for a nation like ours. They belong in Czechoslovakia.

Lance Morrow

The jumbo jet is the airborne equivalent of the interstate highway...One might as well be stuffed into a cartridge and shot through a pneumatic tube, like interoffice mail.

Mason Cooley

Modern pictures banish depiction for interfering with the workings of paint.

Mason Cooley

To be thoroughly modern, an aphorism should trail off vaguely rather than coming to a point.

Michael Crichton

False fears are a plague, a modern plague!

Dean Miller

I don't think people want chains. People want modern conveniences, but they don't want chains.

George Orwell

The modern writer who has influenced me most is W. Somerset Maugham .

Gene Sarazen

Ben Hogan is the most merciless of all the modern golfers.

Irving Kristol

No modern nation has ever constructed a foreign policy that was acceptable to its intellectuals

Franz Grillparzer

The course of modern learning leads from humanism via nationalism to bestiality.

It is a referendum on nationalism versus internationalism, on modernity versus tradition.

B. R. Ambedkar

The sovereignty of scriptures of all religions must come to an end if we want to have a united integrated modern India.