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The subject [of Los Angeles] became a general metaphor for anxiety and the speed of modern life.
The good old horse-and-buggy days: then you lived until you died and not until you were run over.
In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.
A man never feels more important than when he receives a telegram containing more than ten words.
As soon as man applies his intelligence to any object at all, he unfailingly destroys the object.
One listens to one's lawyer prattle on as long as one can stand it and then signs where indicated.
As a young boy, scouting gave me a confidence and camaraderie that is hard to find in modern life.
To elope is cowardly; it is running away from danger; and danger has become so rare in modern life.
One way to solve the traffic problem is to keep all the cars that are not paid for off the streets.
A pedestrian ought to be legally allowed to toss at least one hand grenade at a motorist every day.
A great curse has fallen upon modern life with the discovery of the vastness of the word Education.
If we continue at this leisurly pace, we will have to pass Russian customs when we land on the moon.
What's all this fuss about plutonium? How can something named after a Disney character be dangerous?
The Internet - central to modern life - provides new ways for our enemies to plan and act against us.
Characters paralyzed by the meaninglessness of modern life still have to drink water from time to time.
Modern life would not be possible if it were not for chemicals, nor would modern natural gas production.
The three horrors of modern life - talk without meaning, desire without love, work without satisfaction.
Every person born in the USA is endowed with life, liberty, and a substantial share of the national debt.
Civilization is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences.
It's a sad fact of modern life that if you drive long enough, sooner or later you must leave London behind.
This is my prediction for the future: Whatever hasn't happened will happen, and no one will be safe from it.
I think the messiness and embodied nature of modern life just produces an enhanced signal for our attention.
It is in the interests of society to put the Pill into slot machines and to place cigarettes on prescription.
What a lucky thing the wheel was invented before the automobile; otherwise can you imagine the awful screeching?
I do not much care for nature, and believe that flowers belong in vases rather than loose and untidy on the ground.
I am constantly amazed when I talk to young people to learn how much they know about sex and how little about soap.
Depression: the healthy suspicion that modern life has no meaning and that modern society is absurd and alienating.
It is a sobering thought that Gomer Pyle and the Beverly Hillbillies may be among our chief interstellar emissaries.
You're getting old when you see a girl who looks like someone you used to know, and it turns out to be her daughter.
In the United States, we've put our elections on Tuesday. That's dumb. In modern life, it makes absolutely no sense.
The Beatles are not merely awful. I would consider it sacrilegious to say anything less than that they are godawful.
Modern life is organised so that you benefit at the expense of the other, and the most extreme example of that is a camp.
Modern life is given over to immoderation. Immoderation invades everything: actions and thought, public and private life.
The blues is also existential and offers a sense of mature reflection that enabled it to be the leitmotif of modern life.
The townspeople are morons, yokels, peasants and genus homo boobiensis...surrounded by gaping primates from the upland vallies.
They say kids today don't know the value of a dollar. They certainly do know the value of a dollar. That's why they ask for five.
If you stay true to yourself and true to your vision and your own values, you can power through and make an impact on modern life.
Along with planes, running water, electricity, and motorized transportation, the internet is now a fundamental fact of modern life.
In the end, the real wisdom of menopause may be in questioning how fun or even sane this chore wheel called modern life actually is.
IQ in general has improved since tests first began. Psychologists think that this is because modern life becomes ever more complicated.
Modern life is so thin and shallow and fake. I look forward to when developers go bankrupt, Japan gets poorer and wild grasses take over.
To be, in a word, unborable.... It is the key to modern life. If you are immune to boredom, there is literally nothing you cannot accomplish
the costume of the nineteenth century is detestable. It is so sombre, so depressing. Sin is the only real colour-element left in modern life.
I have learned some things. Modern life is warfare without end: take no prisoners, leave no wounded, eat the dead--that's environmentally sound.
Most of what we strive for in our modern life uses the apparatus of goal seeking that was originally set up to seek goals in the state of nature.
The conjunction of effort, concentration and balance in asana forces us to live intensely in the present moment, a rare experience in modern life.
Unlimited choice is paralyzing. The Internet has made this form of paralysis due to option overload a standard feature of comfortable modern life.
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.
I grew up on Nickelodeon.On All That and Are You Afraid of the Dark, and Salute Your Shorts and Rocco's Modern Life and all that. That was my generation.
It's like the little rat in the Skinner box who says, "I've got this psychologist under my control. Every time I press the bar, he gives me a food pellet."