Modern Life Quotes - Page 12

• ...telephone operators now routinely use '80s-babble, chirping, "Have a nice day," the moral equivalent of the smile button.

  Stefan Kanfer

  Nice, Telephones, Buttons

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• We've lost more men to homosexuality than we ever did in two world wars.

  Erica Jong

  War, Men, Two

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• The man who called it "near beer" was a bad judge of distance.

  Philander Chase Johnson

  Distance, Beer, Men

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• For me, wellbehaved books with neat plots and worked-out endings seem somewhat quaint in the face of the largely incoherent reality of modern life; and then again fiction, at least as I write it and think of it, is a kind of religious meditation in which language is the final enlightenment, and it is language, in its beauty, its ambiguity and its shifting textures, that drives my work.

  Don DeLillo

  Religious, Book, Writing

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• There is part of me that longs to have the back-to-the-earth life - make my own bread, grow my own wheat, just be really self-sufficient - but I am not, at the moment, willing to give up the luxury of modern life, and amazing schools for my kids, and things that I've come to rely on that are parts of society.

  Lauren Groff

  Giving Up, School, Kids

  "Bit And Peace: Lauren Groff’s Arcadia". Interview with Clare Stein, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 8, 2012.

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• The historical novel gives us perspective on our modern lives and helps us connect with the story, which we are continuing ourselves.

  Mary Pope Osborne

  Historical Novels, Giving, Perspective

  Source: www.yabookshelf.com

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• If you ask which of the scenarios I think is most dangerous, though, I will give a different answer. In that form of the question, I regard a nuclear attack, terrorist-generated or otherwise, as the most threatening combination of likelihood and long-term damage to modern life today.

  John L. Casti

  Thinking, Long, Giving

  Source: bigthink.com

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• As a young boy, scouting gave me a confidence and camaraderie that is hard to find in modern life.

  Bear Grylls

  Boys, Young, Camaraderie

  "Leading questions: Bear Grylls, chief Scout". Interview with Jane Dudman, www.theguardian.com. January 12, 2011.

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• Wilderness to the people of America is a spiritual necessity, an antidote to the high pressure of modern life, a means of regaining serenity and equilibrium.

  Sigurd F. Olson

  Spiritual, Mean, America

  "We Need Wilderness". National Parks Magazine, January - March 1946.

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• Ours is a culture based on excess, on overproduction; the result is a steady loss of sharpness in our sensory experience. All the conditions of modern life - its material plenitude, its sheer crowdedness - conjoin to dull our sensory faculties

  Susan Sontag

  Loss, Culture, Excess

  Susan Sontag (1983). “A Susan Sontag reader”, Vintage

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• I base most of my fashion taste on what doesn't itch.

  Gilda Radner

  Witty, Fashion, Funny Inspirational

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• Committee - a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.

  Milton Berle

  Hilarious, Silly, Men

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