Modern Quotes

ZEUS, n. The chief of Grecian gods, adored by the Romans as Jupiter and by the modern Americans as God, Gold, Mob and Dog. Some explorers who have touched upon the shores of America, and one who professes to have penetrated a considerable distance to the interior, have thought that these four names stand for as many distinct deities, but in his monumental work on Surviving Faiths, Frumpp insists that the natives are monotheists, each having no other god than himself, whom he worships under many sacred names. - Ambrose Bierce

ZANY, n. A popular character in old Italian plays, who imitated with ludicrous incompetence the _buffone_, or clown, and was therefore the ape of an ape; for the clown himself imitated the serious characters of the play. The zany was progenitor to the specialist in humor, as we to-day have the unhappiness to know him. In the zany we see an example of creation; in the humorist, of transmission. Another excellent specimen of the modern zany is the curate, who apes the rector, who apes the bishop, who apes the archbishop, who apes the devil. - Ambrose Bierce

You've got to respond to that and of course thinking through the role of a left party in the modern world, in the modern economy and society and having a policy response to that. - Patricia Hewitt

You've got people that not only are willing to give up their lives for a horrendously, in my view, stupid, cowardly act, but they are sophisticated enough to fly a modern jet plane. - James Kallstrom

You've got a whole cross-section of Florida maritime history out there off the beach. There's anything from colonial shipwrecks all the way to modern vessels. - Roger Smith

You're seeing law enforcement falling apart and a modern, industrialized city brought to a complete breakdown, and these stories about the looting and the sniper fire are very much playing into this. - Robert Thompson

Your modern teenager is not about to listen to advice from an old person, defined as a person who remembers when there was no Velcro. - Dave Barry

You'll see exercise artifacts from years ago, and then examples of modern equipment like Nautilus machines. It shows the progression of fitness equipment throughout the years. - Don Figarelli

You wouldn't want to put a modern building next to it when the whole downtown looks that way. It just wouldn't fit in. - Darren Harper

You won't find an answer on how to run a government, traditional or modern, or how to run the economy or how to run a hospital or a television station by looking to Islam. - Fred Halliday