Famous Quotes & Sayings

Benjamin Franklin

A modern Wit is one of David's Fools.

David Cameron

A Modern Compassionate Conservatism is right for our times, right for our partyand right for our country.

Edward Teller

When Columbus took off, the purpose was to improve trade relations with China. That problem has not been solved to this very day, but just look at the by-products.

John Lyly

Fish and guests in three days are stale.

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.

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.

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.

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 .

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.

Arnold Schoenberg

My music is not modern, it is merely badly played

Jean Baudrillard

You are born modern, you do not become so.

Chris Matthews

Canonization in modern times is a very, almost scientific process.

Guy deBord

In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has moved away into a representation.

Frank Zappa

Modern Americans behave as if intelligence were some sort of hideous deformity.

Giorgio Armani

Modern life requires us to be more and more flexible in our attire.