Nothing matters more to AA's future welfare than the manner in which we use the colossus of modern communication. Used unselfishly and well, it can produce results surpassing our present imagination.
None of the modern machines, none of the modern paraphernalia. . . have any power except over the people who choose to use them.
We can build a new modern electric grid. That's a lot of jobs; that's a lot of new economic activity.
I'd like to do a little bit of everything. I think the only thing I can't do is a British accent, so that's out. No Shakespeare for me. Unless it's like one of those modern-day remakes.
Oh the Broom, the yellow Broom, The ancient poet sung it, And dear it is on summer days To lie at rest among it. I know the realms where people say The flowers have not their fellow; I know where they shine out like suns, The crimson and the yellow. I know where ladies live enchained In luxury's silken fetters, And flowers as bright as glittering gems Are used for written letters. But ne'er was flower so fair as this, In modern days or olden; It groweth on its nodding stem Like to a garland golden.
Those who admire modern civilization usually identify it with the steam engine and the electric telegraph.
Spiritual entrepreneurship is the unsung route to growth in the modern economy.
I think that there is absolutely no free market in modern industrial states.
Donald Trump is the most dangerous person to run for president in the modern history of America.
I was horrified by modern 12-tone music. I said to myself, 'Maybe I can find something different. . . maybe salvation, liberation, is possible.
I'm not one of these people who thinks everything in the past is great and everything modern is terrible. But I do think cities should be a mix of old things and new things.
Togetherness, for me, means teamwork. It makes us reflect how completely dependent we are upon one another in our social and commercial life. The more diversified our labors and interests have become in the modern world, the more surely need to integrate our efforts to justify our individual selves and our civilization.
You know I have about the same interest in jewelry as I have in politics, horse racing, modern poetry, and women who need weird excitement – none.
Are you fat because you're a lesbian, or are you a lesbian because you're fat?
Well, method is, it seems to me, a natural growth out of a need, and from a need the modern artist has found new ways of expressing the world about him. I happen to find ways that are different from the usual techniques, which seems a little strange at the moment, but I don't think there's anything very different about it. I paint on the floor and this isn't unusual - the Orientals did that.
Modern poets are bells of lead. They should tinkle melodiously but usually they just klunk.
It's the modern world, so it's pretty much the same. Everyone follows America, from all over the world.
Painting is. . . a correspondence between what you are and what you see. It's a moment when something is holding together in such a way that it is a universe in itself. . . Within this is a test and also a judgment upon yourself, your capabilities, your promises, and the part that you play in the world. And nobody else can test that for you. Certainly not the Museum of Modern Art.
Modern dancing is old fashioned.
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.
