Modern Quotes

You could certainly draw a modern parallel with America, couldn't you? - Natalie Portman

You can't seperate modern jazz from rock or from rhythm and blues - you can't seperate it. Because that's where it all started, and that's where it all come from - that's where I learned to keep rhythm - in church. - Art Blakey

You can't get the bottleneck time or the bottleneck size without both modern and ancient DNA. - Yvonne Chan

You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself. - Milan Kundera

You can still see a fragment of the north stone wall of the house. Amazingly, the building survived until the 1930s when its great hall was turned into a car showroom. Now it's part of a modern block of luxury flats. - Jonathan Foyle

You are ugly when you love her, you are beautiful and fresh, vital and free, modern and poetic when you don't... you are more beautiful as an orphan than as your mother's son. - Witold Gombrowicz

You are born modern, you do not become so. - Jean Baudrillard

Yet they still remain afraid of their own citizens and the healthy diversity of news and views which defines a modern society . - Brad Adams

Yet for my part, deeply as I am moved by the religious architecture of the Middle Ages, I cannot honestly say that I ever felt the slightest emotion in any modern Gothic church. - Goldwin Smith

Yeah, I've got a problem with it, but it's modern baseball. On a close play, you're going to do what's most natural to you. ... There's too many things that you can hurt ? fingers, wrist, elbow, shoulders. There's a lot of things that can get stepped on. There's a lot of things that can happen on a head-first play. - Dusty Baker