Top 1200 Modern Age Quotes & Sayings

From Euclid to Newton there were straight lines. The modern age analyzes the wavers.

The modern artist is living in a mechanical age and we have a mechanical means of representing objects in nature such as the camera and photograph. The modern artist, it seems to me, is working and expressing an inner world - in other words - expressing the energy, the motion, and other inner forces.

I grew up watching the films of 'Carousel' and 'Oklahoma' and 'The Music Man' and 'My Fair Lady' - all the classic musicals of that golden era, The sort of more modern musical theater, or what was modern when I was at a ripe teenage age, I wasn't really listening to that stuff. I was really more raised on the classics.

The Vedic literatures predicted that after the advent of Lord Caitanya five hundred years ago, there would be a Golden Age of ten thousand years, when the chanting of the holy names of God would completely nullify all the degradations of the modern age, and real spiritual peace would come to this planet.

The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity.

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

Industrialism, whether of the capitalist or socialist coloration, is the basic tyrant of the modern age.

New needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new means of making their statements... the modern painter cannot express this age, the airplane, the atom bomb, the radio, in the old forms of the Renaissance or of any other past culture.

I am thankful to the Nobel committee for recognising the plight of millions of children who are suffering in this modern age.

Most poetry in the modern age has retreated to the private sphere, turning its back on the political realm.

Comics deal with fundamental archetypes. We've been called the myth-makers of the modern age.

The modern artist is living in a mechanical age and we have a mechanical means of representing objects in nature such as the camera and photograph. The modern artist, it seems to me, is working and expressing an inner world - in other words - expressing the energy , the motion and the other inner forces ... the modern artist is working with space and time , and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating.

I love the inappropriateness of age-old wisdom in modern slang. These things are all so wonderful to me.

It is a frightful satire and an epigram on the modern age that the only use it knows for solitude is to make it a punishment, a jail sentence.

You'd be surprised how many people in the modern age no longer fear zombies as much as teletubies.

When it comes to my style, I'm a proper Italian woman of the modern age!

Individualism has really the higher aim. Modern morality consists in accepting the standard of one's age.

I am thankful to the Nobel committee for recognising the plight of millions of children who are suffering in this modern age

The wonderful thing about modern medicine is that so many of these complaints that used to signify old age and decline can be coped with.

Information is the oxygen of the modern age.

The newer people of this modern age are more eager to amass than to realize.

Certainly in the modern age where everything is glossed over, when somebody speaks their mind, the majority of the public go, I'd love to have said that.

Discrimination due to age is one of the great tragedies of modern life. The desire to work and be useful is what makes life worth living, and to be told your efforts are not needed because you are the wrong age is a crime.

What is the relation between Christianity and modern culture; may Christianity be maintained in a scientific age? It is this problem which modern liberalism attempts to solve.

It seems to me that the modern painter cannot express this age, the airplane, the atom bomb, the radio, in the old forms of the Renaissance or of any other past culture. Each age find its own technique.

Popular revolt against a ruthless, experienced modern dictatorship, which enjoys a monopoly over weapons and communications, ... is simply not a possibility in the modern age.

Family life is fragmenting in this modern age, but it's up to all of us to keep it together.

Wind is one of the greatest scams of the modern age.

The Jews are the master robbers of the modern age.

Make it new is the message not just of modern art but of modern consumerism, of which modern art is largely a mirror image.

The idea that, in the age of Google, Facebook and the internet, government can control the 'commanding heights' of the economy is one of the great delusions of our age. Modern techonology, social media, the explosion of online retail, among many other things, have meant that governments have less and less control.

Are modern children going to revolt against being modern, and if so, what form will reaction of modern parents take?

A modern mathematical proof is not very different from a modern machine, or a modern test setup: the simple fundamental principles are hidden and almost invisible under a mass of technical details.

Universities are the cathedrals of the modern age. They shouldn't have to justify their existence by utilitarian criteria.

The fastest growing segment of the population in the world right now is over the age of 90, and in some cases over the age of 100 in some countries. So people are living longer. And even though much of it is attributed to modern medicine, it's not. It's lifestyle. It's nutrition. It's the quality of exercise, the ability to manage stress.

Both Zen and mysticsm have this beautiful quality of happiness and laughter, which I think is so necessary in our modern age.

It is a Modern day, and these times need Modern solutions to Modern problems.

The Middle Ages burned its heretics and the modern age threatens them with atom bombs.

Any historian of the literature of the modern age will take virtually for granted the adversary intention, the actually subversive intention, that characterizes modern writing - he will perceive its clear purpose of detaching the reader from the habits of thought and feeling that the larger culture imposes, of giving him a ground and a vantage point from which to judge and condemn, and perhaps revise, the culture that produces him.

The reason for the sadness of this modern age and the men who live in it is that it looks for the truth in everything and finds it.

I loved the idea of evolving traditional methods and design to make products that last but are also relevant for the modern age.

A lot of times, people think of Asian culture as some mythical world instead of modern people with modern occupations with modern problems, modern tools. Like, we're not all just talking Taoism and kung fu - some people are just trying to get over their breakup with their boyfriend, and they're Facebook-stalking.

We live in a very modern age and the dynamic of raising kids and being a professional are intersecting a lot more - especially for women.

It's modern day. It is modern day. Some of the cars are older but it is absolutely modern day. There are modern cars in it, modern people, modern clothes, modern talk. We wrote 'Valentine' to sort of pay tribute to all the old slasher movies that we grew up with and I think that we did that.

I've seen everything at a very young age... I am a strong, opinionated person who really belongs to this modern day and age.

Every age thinks it's the modern age, but this one really is. Electricity is going to change everything. Everything!

In today's day and age, where so many kids are taught to specialize so early, I want to show them you don't have to - at a young age, high school age, college age and hopefully a professional age.

Modern art to me is nothing more than the expression of contemporary aims of the age that we're living in.

I suppose movie theaters are the churches of the modern age, where we gather reverently to worship the tinsel gods of Hollywood.

I don't know how many modern families watch 'Modern Family,' but then one of the points of 'Modern Family' is that it's hard to tell what a modern family is anymore, let alone what it does.

The words 'Space Age' have a quaint, nostalgic tone - sitting on midcentury modern furniture watching 'The Jetsons.'

I think if you look at the failure of journalism in the modern age, then I don't want to be called a journalist.

It has been claimed at times that our modern age of technology facilitates dictatorship.

I think computer science, by and large, is still stuck in the Modern age.

The age demanded an image Of its accelerated grimace, Something for the modern stage, Not, at any rate, an Attic grace.

It is especially difficult for modern people to conceive that our modern, scientific age might not be an improvement over the prescientific period.

Bath was dusty and a little shabby when we moved here. It did look its age and you felt its history in its streets and buildings and little alleyways. The sense of the past was palpable. There were some bad modern buildings but there was a patina of age.

The idea of childhood as a social invention, in retrospect, is hardly credible. In the Bible, in writings of the Greeks and Romans, and in the works of the first great educator of the modern era, Comenius, children were recognized as being both different from adults and different from one another with respect to their stages of development. To be sure, the scientific study of children and the increased length of life in modern times have enhanced our understanding of age differences, but they have always been acknowledged.

A modern author would have died in infancy in a ruder age.

Modern art to me is nothing more than the expression of contemporary aims of the age we’re living in. All cultures have had means and techniques of expressing their immediate aims – the Chinese, the Renaissance, all cultures. The thing that interests me is that today painters do not have to go to a subject matter outside of themselves. Most modern painters work from a different source, they work from within.