#modern

There is a danger of developing a blanket distaste for modern life which could have its attractions but lack the all-important images to help us identify them. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#modern-life #beauty

Most modern comedy is crap. ↗

— Adrian Edmondson

#crap #modern #most

You don't really need modernity in order to exist totally and fully. You need a mixture of modernity and tradition. ↗

— Theodore Bikel

#fully #mixture #modernity #need #order

Even in modern art, artists have used methods based on calculation, inasmuch as these elements, alongside those of a more personal and emotional nature, give balance and harmony to any work of art. ↗

— Max Bill

#any #art #artists #balance #based

We are similar to a museum. My function is to present old masterpieces in modern frames. ↗

— Rudolf Bing

#function #masterpieces #modern #museum #old

The truth is, I can't help the way people perceive anything, from the role of financial industry in the economic crisis, to the place of women's fiction in the canon of modern literature, to the rank of mint chocolate chip ice cream as a favorite Baskin-Robbins flavor. ↗

— Erin Duffy

#canon #chip #chocolate #cream #crisis

Can you, in a million years, imagine another female senator - Kay Bailey Hutchinson, Claire McCaskill - reacting to being called 'ma'am' like Barbara Boxer did? This is the kind of sanctimonious self-absorption on the modern left that makes my teeth itch. ↗

— Mark Davis

#another #bailey #barbara #barbara boxer #being

In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has moved away into a representation. ↗

— Guy Debord

#conditions #directly #everything #immense #into

India is a curious place that still preserves the past, religions, and its history. No matter how modern India becomes, it is still very much an old country. ↗

— Anita Desai

#country #curious #history #how #india

Values unrelated to modern reality are not just electorally hopeless, the values themselves become devalued. They have no purchase on the real world. ↗

— Tony Blair

#devalued #hopeless #just #modern #purchase