Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Crowe Ransom

And yet what is Modernism? It is undefined.

John Fowles

An aphorism is a generalization, therefore not modern.

Kate Adie

I also read modern novels - I have just had to read 60 as I am one of the judges for the Orange Fiction Prize.

Josh Gad

Josh Gad and I have been friends since the time he auditioned for Modern Family. I directed the pilot for that, and that's how we met.

John B. S. Haldane

This is my prediction for the future: Whatever hasn't happened will happen, and no one will be safe from it.

Frank Lloyd Wright

The only thing wrong with architecture is architects.

James Thurber

The trouble with the lost generation is that it didn't get lost enough.

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.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Modern intelligence won't accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.

John Lyly

Fish and guests in three days are stale.

Daniel Tosh

The flat-brimmed cap is the modern day dunce cap.

George R. R. Martin

The success that the Tolkien books had redefined modern fantasy.

I'm like a middle-aged person; when my friends go on about modern bands, I don't know what they are talking about. I'm into rock n' roll, like Jimi Hendrix. Not so much because of my parents, who used to play a lot of Nina Simone and older blues, but my brother and sister.

Colin Greenwood

I don't listen to much modern composition.

To be modern is to tinker with the incurable.

Robert Morgan

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

Kurt Vonnegut

It is a sobering thought that Gomer Pyle and the Beverly Hillbillies may be among our chief interstellar emissaries.

Queen Rania of Jordan

Religion and modernity are not necessarily mutually exclusive.

The modern clercs have created in so-called cultivated society a positive romanticism of harshness. The have also created a romanticism of contempt.

The modern moralists extol ... the cult of practical activity in defiance of the disinterested life.

Rob James-Collier

It's not just modern-day society that is liberal.

Reinhold Niebuhr

Marxism is the modern form of Jewish prophecy.

William S. Burroughs

He [Samuel Beckett] is great, a very great writer. Any modern writer is bound to be influenced by [James] Joyce. Of course, by Beckett as well.

William J. Clinton

You can't be involved in modern American politics without somebody attacking you.

Walter Cronkite

We're living in a state where no one can trust his telephone conversations, nor even his personal conversations in a room, in a bar or anywhere else.

Salvador Dali

Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.

W. S. Merwin

Modern poetry, for me, began not in English at all but in Spanish, in the poems of Lorca.

W. S. Gilbert

I am the very model of a modern major general

Walt Kelly

Thank goodness modern convenience is a thing of the remote future.

Roger Scruton

The ethical life... is maintained in being by a common culture, which also upholds the togetherness of society... Unlike the modern youth culture, a common culture sanctifies the adult state, to which it offers rites of passage.