#modern

Any acceleration constitutes progress, Miss Glory. Nature had no understanding of the modern rate of work. From a technical standpoint the whole of childhood is pure nonsense. Simply wasted time. An untenable waste of time. ↗

— Karel Capek

#any #childhood #constitutes #glory #had

I like 1977 because it is more primitive. If it were modern day, like one Universal guy was like wouldn't they just use their cell phone? I guess he did not read that it was 1977 in the script. ↗

— Rob Zombie

#cell #cell phone #day #did #guess

It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#ever #modern #old-fashioned #only

The modern assault on the environment began about 50 years ago, during and immediately after World War II. ↗

— Barry Commoner

#about #after #ago #assault #began

The modern meaning of life's end-when does it end? How does it end? How should it end? What is the value of life? How do we measure it? ↗

— Don DeLillo

#end #how #life #meaning #meaning of

It would be flattering to call it a modern Dirty Harry, but I think this film deals more with the loss of his wife than the traditional revenge vigilante films. ↗

— Vin Diesel

#deals #dirty #film #films #flattering

Well, opera began with an intent to resuscitate Greek drama, that is, modern opera as we know it. ↗

— John Eaton

#drama #greek #intent #know #modern

Postmodernism surely requires an even greater grasp of symbolism, as it's increasingly an art of gesture alone. ↗

— Andrew Eldritch

#art #even #gesture #grasp #greater

We think a modern cloud lets you decide when you want to upgrade. We don't decide for you. ↗

— Larry Ellison

#decide #lets #modern #think #upgrade

Modern technology has become a total phenomenon for civilization, the defining force of a new social order in which efficiency is no longer an option but a necessity imposed on all human activity. ↗

— Jacques Ellul

#become #civilization #defining #efficiency #force