(307 quotes found)
“It is our duty to find the symphonic formula which fits our time, one which progress, daring and modern victory demand?”
Claude Debussy
“Here lies, extinguished in his prime,/ a victim of modernity:/ but yesterday he hadn't time--/ and now he has eternity.”
Piet Hein
“This is what I think is modern. It's like wearing a couture jacket with a pair of jeans.”
Karl Lagerfeld
“The modern nose, like the modern eye, has developed a sort of microscopic, intercellular intensity which makes our human contacts painful and revolting”
Marshall McLuhan
“It is only fair to state, with regard to modern journalists, that they always apologize to one in private for what they have written against one in public”
Oscar Wilde
“London is a modern Babylon.”
Benjamin Disraeli
“It is nothing short of a miracle that modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry.”
Albert Einstein
“All history is modern history”
Wallace Stevens
“Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.”
Agnes De Mille
“To be modern is to tinker with the incurable.”
Emile M. Cioran
