Here’s a new ‘Blessing’ for our time — ‘May Anderson Cooper never be sent to report on your town!

Most of modern rock and roll is a product of guilt.

Growth is widely thought to be the panacea for all the major economic ills of the modern world.

The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum.

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?

People tend to believe that to be modern you have to disengage from your heritage, but it’s not true.

You know, I’m a modern day Harry Belafonte; I got the swagger of the island.

Entertainment is temporary happiness, but the real happiness is permanent entertainment.

A third ideal that has made its way in the modern world is reliance on reason, especially reason disciplined and enriched by modern science. An eternal basis of human intercommunication is reason.

I suppose I see myself as a modern soul artist.

Victoria is a clever satirist, … She understands the awfulness that’s at the heart of a lot of modern culture.

The grandeur of the Institute never failed to impress Magnus – the way it towered high and mighty above everything else, timeless and unmoving in its Gothic disapproval of all that was modern and changeable.

The Dark Ages gradually ended six centuries ago with the Renaissance, which seeded new ideas for a different world. The Renaissance ideal dominated our culture until three centuries ago, from the 14th to the 18th...

In our modern age – in the age of free information – I don’t think there is any place for dictatorships.

Libya as a country is a relatively new concept. The period of Libya as a modern nation really starts after World War II.

It is really a matter of ending this silence and solitude, of breathing and stretching one’s arms again.

This is a much more fitting interpretation of the book than its modern interpretation.

Before this generation lose the wisdom, one advice – read books.

Ironing boards are a classic example of something I find horrible about modern society: the excitementation, for want of a better word, of mundane things.

People tend to view history as if it were another planet and think the modern world was invented in 1963. I don’t agree.

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

I want everyone to wear what they want and mix it in their own way. That, to me, is what is modern.

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...

leap upstairs” against their reason and try to find something which gives meaning to life, even though to do so they have to deny their reason.This was a solution Leonardo da Vinci and the men...

an utter walkover with a man who can pen a pretty email

sometimes I hearscreaming like a childand wake upto find it’s me

In modern times, beauty is more trusted than goodness.

The great fact all the while however had been the incalculability; since he had supposed himself, from decade to decade, to be allowing, and in the most liberal and intelligent manner, for brilliancy of change....

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

The whole edifice of modern physics is built up on the fundamental hypothesis of the atomic or molecular constitution of matter.

We didn’t reinvent the circus. We repackaged it in a much more modern way.

Music is a gut thing. You’re working in a medium which is more in touch with the primal than the modern. A gig is a ritual. There’s a congregation.

Evangelical Christians need to notice…, that the Reformation said ‘Scripture Alone’ and not ‘the Revelation of God in Christ Alone’. If you do not have the view of the Scriptures that the Reformers had, you...

I think some of the best modern writing comes now from travellers.

I believe very firmly that indigenous populations had a really good, intuitive understanding of why we’re here. And we’re trying to gain that same understanding through psychology and intellect in modern civilization.

Let us make sure that future generation writes our biography.

Just as characteristic, perhaps, is the intellectual interdependence created through the development of the modern media of communication: post, telegraph, telephone, and popular press.

Like many modern poets, I tend to conceal rhymes by placing them in the middle of lines, and to avoid immediate alliteration and assonance in favor of echoes placed later in the poems.

The modern video games kind of – they’re too three dimensional.

We met with the poet Frank O’Hara, who was a link between Upper and Lower Bohemia, and who worked at the Museum of Modern Art, where we had hoped to do the readings.

I wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read.

Twentieth-century American poetry has been one of the glories of modern literature.

Modern psychology has pointed to the need of educating people to use a much larger portion of the mind. Transcendental meditation fulfills this need. And it can be taught very easily.

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.

Don’t compete with your friends to win a date with few beautiful girls, but compete to win few beautiful goals.

The huge modern heresy is to alter the human soul to fit modern social conditions, instead of altering modern social conditions to fit the human soul.

The great thing about university is that they incline you to get up and do it, from the Classics to modern plays, to the humor that Monty Pythons made popular.

I attended Professional Children’s School in Manhattan because my ballet and modern dance schedules were intensive and had started to interfere with regular school hours.

Conventional dogmas, even if endowed with the authority of an Aristotle – ancient or modern – must be tested vigorously. If they are found wanting, we need not bother with them. But if they are...

A modern culture built on the back of dying gods immerses me.