Modern Life Quotes - Page 9

• I was scared of the Bible - it seemed whenever I read it I got bad luck. Then I befriended a couple of Jesus's disciples and I used to show them modern life - how to run the hot and cold taps and things like that. They seemed alright but it didn't change my feelings about the Bible jinx.

  Beth Orton

  Running, Jesus, Couple

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• I had never considered marriage, but I had an open mind, and I was to learn after a brief try at it that most open minds should be closed for repairs.

  Wilson Mizner

  Mind, Trying, Should

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• We should sell them to our worst enemies, the Russians and the Cubans.

  Ed Koch

  Worst Enemy, Cuban, Should

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• Classless society is the dream of people with no class.

  Robert Zend

  Dream, Class, People

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• The only thing wrong with architecture is architects.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Architecture, Modern, Architect

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• It is a sobering thought that Gomer Pyle and the Beverly Hillbillies may be among our chief interstellar emissaries.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  May, Chiefs, Interstellar

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• I do not much care for nature, and believe that flowers belong in vases rather than loose and untidy on the ground.

  Gore Vidal

  Believe, Flower, Care

  Gore Vidal (1976). “1876: a novel”

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• As a woman, for example, I live and work very much like a man. I take a lot of things from the man's world and I have to do that if I want to survive modern life. Conversely, men have to take things from the woman's world to survive. It's a very beautiful thing that you have to mold your own gender nowadays. But it's a very stressful thing for us.

  Pernille Fischer Christensen

  Beautiful, Men, Mold

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The rush and pressure of modern life are a form, perhaps the most common form, of contemporary violence. To allow oneself to be carried away by a multitude of conflicting concerns, to surrender to too many demands, to commit oneself to too many projects, to want to help everyone in everything, is to succumb to violence. The frenzy of our activity neutralizes our work for peace. It destroys our own inner capacity for peace. It destroys the fruitfulness of our own work, because it kills the root of inner wisdom which makes work fruitful.

  Thomas Merton

  Roots, Demand, Want

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• Have you ever known anyone who bought a fruitcake for himself? Of course not. They are purchased as Christmas gifts, mostly for people you don't particularly like.

  Phyllis Diller

  People, Fruitcake, Christmas Gift

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• What about the poor salesman who is calling into the office from the corner saloon instead of the home sickbed he claims he is in?

  Malcolm Forbes

  Home, Office, Calling

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• The human race never solves any of its problems, it only outlives them.

  David Gerrold

  Race, Problem, Solve

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• In my life I've easily lost 500 pounds but for some reason they keep finding me.

  Gael Greene

  Pounds, Reason, Lost

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• The jumbo jet is the airborne equivalent of the interstate highway...One might as well be stuffed into a cartridge and shot through a pneumatic tube, like interoffice mail.

  Lance Morrow

  Might, Mail, Shots

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• When man sends colonies into space, he will be able to mount moveable, sun-reflecting mirrors to simulate rhythms of day and night and even the terrestial seasons...But he doubtless will follow the longstanding American habit of thinking that outer space should, as much as possible, resemble Southern California.

  Lance Morrow

  Night, Men, Thinking

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• Modern life is confusing no "Ms take" about it.

  Geraldine Ferraro

  Confusing, Life Is, Modern

  "Woman In The News; Liberal Democrat From Queens" by Jane Perlez, www.nytimes.com. July 13, 1984.

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• The most disturbing and wasteful emotions in modern life, next to fright, are those which are associated with the idea of blame, directed against the self or against others.

  Marilyn Ferguson

  Life, Self, Ideas

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• The secret of genius is to suffer no fiction to exist for us; to realize all that we know; in the high refinement of modern life,in arts, in sciences, in books, in men, to exact good faith, reality, and a purpose; and first, last, midst, and without end, to honor every truth by use.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Faith, Art, Truth

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.155

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• The surest way to get a job done is to give it to a busy man. He'll have his secretary do it.

  Jacob Braude

  Jobs, Men, Giving

  Jacob Morton Braude (1966). “Speaker's desk book of quips, quotes, & anecdotes”

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• A woman's quest in life should be to find the perfect apartment. And I have found the perfect apartment. The perfect apartment is the first floor of the Metropolitan Museum. With a sofa.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Museums, Perfect, Firsts

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• Artist should look at the reality and brutality of modern life in all its color, nature with all its imperfections - that should be the challenge to the modern painter not the didactic idealization of the past. The new generation should forge a new path.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Artist, Past, Reality

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• For out of this modern civilization economic royalists carved new dynasties. New kingdoms were built upon concentration of control over material things. Through new uses of corporations, banks and securities, new machinery of industry and agriculture, of labor and capital - all undreamed of by the Fathers - the whole structure of modern life was impressed into this royal service.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Father, Agriculture, Civilization

  Franklin D. Roosevelt (1995). “The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt”, Gramercy

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• Modern life cannot be constructed on . . . physically strenuous principles. A great deal of work is sedentary, and most manual work exercises only a few specialized muscles.

  Bertrand Russell

  Exercise, Principles, Muscles

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• The pleasure in traveling consists of the obstacles, the fatigue, and even the danger. What charm can anyone find in an excursion when he is always sure of reaching his destination, of having horses ready waiting for him, a soft bed, an excellent supper, and all the eases and comfort he can enjoy in his own home! One of the great misfortunes of modern life is the want of any sudden surprise, and the absence of all adventure. Everything is so well arranged.

  Theophile Gautier

  Horse, Adventure, Home

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• Ugly is very popular this year...I had a feeling these clothes were deigned by someone who didn't like women.

  Andy Rooney

  Years, Clothes, Feelings

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