Top 1200 Modern-Day Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

I would loathe to work on modern films.

What interests me is to understand the nature of the modern.

The free lunch is the essence of modern liberalism.

Zlatan is one of the best strikers in the modern generation.

Full of wise saws and modern instances.

The Second Amendment has no place in modern society.

I'm a modern girl with old-fashioned sensibilities.

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

For my workout, I'm up at 4am. I say my prayers, count my blessings, and I work out right away. I just get it done. One day I'll tone - chest, back and shoulders - and the next day it's biceps and triceps. I also do 45 minutes of cardio every day. I do that before I even leave the house.

I really enjoy working on 'Modern Family.'

War is the highest form of modern art.

My music is not modern, it is merely badly played

Stained glass enabled the modern world.

It's a different rhythm than most movies. For a lot of the actors, you're 12,000 miles away from home. It becomes a way of life - getting up at five in the morning, shooting every day, day in day out, for 270 days. The new cast playing the dwarves were carrying incredibly heavy weights in their suits, they sat through hours of make-up every day. So it's quite challenging from a stamina point of view.

It was something that hopefully sparked a few people to do similar things down the road and will keep a certain flavor of magazine publishing alive. I have to say at the end of the day I am glad not to be spending all day, every day in the High Times office, you know, covering this particular angle of life.

Modern Chinese culture is weak and lackluster.

The modern dogma is comfort at any cost.

The modern choice is between non-violence or non-existence.

People will work eight hours a day for pay, 10 hours a day for a good boss, and 24 hours a day for a good cause!

Public universities are the lifeblood of modern democracies.

What we want from modern dance is courage and audacity.

Write all the time. I believe in writing every day, at least a thousand words a day. We have a strange idea about writing: that it can be done, and done well, without a great deal of effort. Dancers practice every day, musicians practice every day, even when they are at the peak of their careers – especially then. Somehow, we don’t take writing as seriously. But writing – writing wonderfully – takes just as much dedication.

My look is a Modern Bohemian type thing.

The plight of modern man is that he is condemmed to be free.

I do find modern jazz quite tricky.

Modern man is a hard-working human.

The modern work of art, as I have said, is a symbol.

Modern man has lost the option of silence.

I don't have any of the modern stuff. I don't have e-mail. I don't have a computer!

The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise.

As a modern employer you have to treat people well.

I've made no pretence to be a modern man at all, ever.

I hate brandy...it stinks of modern literature.

Beautiful credit! The foundation of modern society.

This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

I concentrate on making everything strong, and you can't do that with just cardio. I strength-train one day - and I'm not talking heavy weights, just a little. I see my trainer one day, next day I take a yoga class or cook. I'm not someone who just opens a pantry and rustles something up.

War is the ultimate realization of modern technology.

My style for the moment is modern mystic priestess.

There simply is nothing else like it. And, as a test of physical and mental endurance it has no equal. Other sports may be as intense, as pressurized, as hard for short periods: But the Tour does on day after day after day. It's the only race in the world where you have to get a haircut halfway through.

I'm mixing country with kind of a modern twist to it.

I get really bored really easily, so I'm a big believer and advocate of changing it up. One day, I'll do a power yoga or hot yoga day, and then go into a more intense day of HIIT training or boxing. I always have a bit of dance in there too.

When you wake up and see the whole creation is my valentine, the country is my valentine, the Divinity is my valentine, knowledge is my valentine then Valentine’s Day will never end for you. All 365 days is Valentine’s Day. That is how I feel - everyday is Valentine’s Day

Training not only anchors my day but also allows me to tap into endless energy and intensity. Whether I was performing at Wrestlemania or shooting a 16 hour day on a movie set, training allows the floodgates to open. It carries me through the rest of the day and night.

You have to be physical - that's the way it is in a midfield in the modern game.

In modern warfare there are no victors; there are only survivors.

Modern man is sick because he is not whole.

Marxism is the modern form of Jewish prophecy.

Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

I pledge to support the American workforce by wearing only American designers: Calvin Klein between Memorial Day and Labor Day, Donna Karan the rest of the year. Unless I wake up and the day is screaming for me to put on a bikini for my fellow Americans. Country first.

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

Why do alcoholics begin down the same hazardous road day after day? They are in search of that elusive window of well-being that opens when you drink your way out of a hangover and aren't yet drunk all over again. The alcoholic's day consists of trying to keep that window open.

Starvation, not sin, is the parent of modern crime.

Consciousness - that, to me, is the theme of the modern novel.

The one thing you know we won't do is, literally, 'Modern Warfare 2.'

We are creatures. We have a link with a native habitat just like every other species. Throughout most of human history, physical activity was unavoidable, calories were scarce and hard to get. In the modern era, calories are unavoidable, physical activity is scare and hard to get. The traits that allowed our ancestors to survive, and let's face it, the survival of our ancestors is the reason that we're here because the people who don't survive and make very crummy ancestors, are our traits. But they're very much at odds with the modern environment.

I, Kusama, am the modern Alice in Wonderland.

The modern composer builds upon the foundation of truth.

My father was a legendary copywriter. He wrote 'Timex Takes a Licking and Keeps on Ticking.' He named Earth Day 'Earth Day.' It falls on his birthday, April 22. Earth Day, birthday. So the idea came easily.

I must settle for freedom in this modern time

I could have been in a house show the day before being flown in to do the Survivor Series. I'd do that pay-per-view, then fly out the next day to go do another house show. The pay-per-view just happened in the middle of a 30 or 40-day road tour. For us back then, the WWF talent, it was just another day of work, another day of being on the road.