Themodern Quotes & Sayings

What job a fascinating view does, apart from fascinating you? It does this: It perfectly motivates you to love existence much more than you can love! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

I enjoy knocking around with the boys. — Gwendoline Christie

I try to watch a movie a day, if not more, and through movies, I learned about so many different political themes I hadn't been interested in and cultural things I hadn't been aware of and economic factors I hadn't thought about. — Hideo Kojima

Mircea must have heard us come in, but he continued what he was doing.
He stood with his back to us, the candlelight on his bare skin causing his muscles to fall into sharp relief. He'd washed the river gunk out of his hair and now he threw it back, the water droplets shimmering in the light. The scene looked for all the world like a really good romance novel cover. — Karen Chance

Every day I'll wear your memory like a favorite shirt upon my back — Richard Thompson

The genius of culture is to create an ontological system so compelling that what is inside and outside of a person are viewed as of a piece, no seams and patches noticeable. — Richard Shweder

The fool of nature stood with stupid eyes And gaping mouth, that testified surprise. — John Dryden

One-third of the Earth's land used to be covered in forest. Every ten years, we cut down about 1 percent of this total forest, never to be regrown. — Hope Jahren

Check out my interview with Kostya Kennedy on themodern online. Sports Illustrated writer and author of Pete Rose: An American Dilemma. It may change your mind, one way or the other. — Kostya Kennedy

I grew up in a small place and left it when I was quite young and entered the bigger world. — V.S. Naipaul

We are the two great painters of this era; you are in the Egyptian style, I in themodern style. (to Pablo Picasso) — Henri Rousseau

They gaze at each other for a while, down here on the barroom floor of history, feeling sucker-punched, no clear way to get up and on with a day which is suddenly full of holes
family, friends, friends of friends, phone numbers on the Rolodex, just not there anymore ... the bleak feeling, some mornings, that the country itself may not be there anymore, but being silently replaced screen by screen with something else, some surprise package, by those who've kept their wits about them and their clicking thumbs ready. — Thomas Pynchon