The modern masters promise very little
False fears are a plague, a modern plague!
Every reiteration of the idea that _nothing matters_ debases the human spirit. Every reiteration of the idea that there is no drama in modern life, there is only dramatization, that there is no tragedy, there is only unexplained misfortune, debases us. It denies what we know to be true. In denying what we know, we are as a nation which cannot remember its dreams--like an unhappy person who cannot remember his dreams and so denies that he does dream, and denies that there are such things as dreams.
Work is the law of the modern world, which has no place for lazy people.
This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.
The only right way: to love and serve the man of the modern world, but not simply to succumb, with him, to all his illusions about the world.
Every modern war has had its roots in exploitation.
The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.
I am forced to the conclusion that modern medicine does not know it all.
In point of substantial merit the law school belongs in the modern university no more than a school of fencing or dancing.
I don't think about music as being new or modern. I just play.
A modern gentleman [rich person] is necessarily the enemy of his country. Even in war he does not fight to defend it, but to prevent his power of preying on it from passing to a foreigner.
London is a modern Babylon.
We have at our disposal modern techniques for seeing everything, apprehending everything, yet we see nothing.
John Scalzi is a fresh and appealing new voice, and Old Man's War is classic SF seen from a modern perspective—a fast-paced tour of a daunting, hostile universe.
All Modern Men are descended from a Wormlike creature but it shows more on some people.
Chicago is the product of modern capitalism, and, like other great commercial centers, is unfit for human habitation.
Modern, not bottom-dwelling literature like a carp.
The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.
Certainly a big challenge for me with evening-wear is to make it look modern and artistic and avant-garde. The very concept of a ball gown is not in itself a modern concept, and women need to wear that for a certain presence in Hollywood. I'm also aware that a starlet might go to more than one place that night so the piece could also offer, maybe not a revolution, but an evolution.