All Quotes

A modern arboretum brings us that ancient forest and, with it, a changed apprehension of time, a renewed appreciation of the elegance of natural form and a renewed sense of wonder at the variety of the world we inhabit.
‐‐ John Burnside

A modern civilization is only possible when it is accepted that singular beings exist and express themselves freely.
‐‐ Tahar Ben Jelloun

A modern-day Dickens with a popular voice and a genius for storytelling in any genre, Stephen King has written many wonderful books.
‐‐ Carlos Ruiz Zafon

A modern democracy is a tyranny whose borders are undefined; one discovers how far one can go only by traveling in a straight line until one is stopped.
‐‐ Norman Mailer

A modern economy is marked by the feasibility of endogenous change: Modernization brings myriad arrangements from expanded property rights to company law and financial institutions.
‐‐ Edmund Phelps

A modern fascination with the fantastic seems to come along every couple of generations, usually at a point when we're future saturated.
‐‐ Steve Erickson

A modern fleet of ships does not so much make use of the sea as exploit a highway.
‐‐ Joseph Conrad

A modern girls' school, equipped as scores are now equipped throughout the country, was of course not to be found in 1858, when I first became a school boarder, or in 1867, when I ceased to be one.
‐‐ Mary Augusta Ward

A modern health and social care system has to be completely focussed on the needs of its users.
‐‐ Patricia Hewitt

A 'modern' man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The well-adapted drop off the dead limb of time like lice.
‐‐ Elias Canetti

A Modern Mom to me is not always someone that juggles a career and family. A Modern Mom is a woman who takes care of herself on the inside and the outside.
‐‐ Regina King

A modern revolutionary group heads for the television station.
‐‐ Abbie Hoffman

A modest dose of self-love is entirely healthy - who would want to live in a world where everyone hated themselves? But taken too far, it soon becomes poisonous.
‐‐ Geoff Mulgan

A modest man is usually admired, if people ever hear of him.
‐‐ E. W. Howe

A molcajete is a stone mortar and pestle from Mexico. They're great for grinding spices and making salsa and guacamole because they give everything a nice coarse and rustic feel. I've never collected anything, but I think I might start collecting these because each one is decorated differently.
‐‐ Bobby Flay

A molecular gastronomist is really just someone who explores the world of science and food.
‐‐ Homaro Cantu

A molecular manufacturing technology will let us build molecular surgical tools, and those tools will, for the first time, let us directly address the problems at the very root level.
‐‐ Ralph Merkle

A mom can't afford to be sick.
‐‐ Tamra Davis

A mom has to be ready for anything.
‐‐ Lara Spencer

A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new; when an age ends; and when the soul of a nation long suppressed finds utterance.
‐‐ Jawaharlal Nehru

A moment of disruption is where the conversation about disruption often begins, even though determining that moment is entirely hindsight.
‐‐ Steven Sinofsky

A moment of silence is not inherently religious.
‐‐ Sandra Day O'Connor

A moment's reflection shows that Liberalism is entirely negative. It is not a formative force, but always and only a disintegrating force.
‐‐ Francis Parker Yockey

A moment's thinking is an hour in words.
‐‐ Thomas Hood

A monarchy conducted with infinite wisdom and infinite benevolence is the most perfect of all possible governments.
‐‐ Ezra Stiles

A monarchy is the most expensive of all forms of government, the regal state requiring a costly parade, and he who depends on his own power to rule, must strengthen that power by bribing the active and enterprising whom he cannot intimidate.
‐‐ James F. Cooper

A monk's extraordinary patience can be a hindrance to desperate decision-making.
‐‐ Harsha Bhogle

A monkey is unaware that atoms exist. Likewise, our brainpower may not stretch to the deepest aspects of reality. The bedrock nature of space and time, and the structure of our entire universe, may remain 'open frontiers' beyond human grasp.
‐‐ Martin Rees

A monoculture is not only Hollywood, but Americans trying to export democracy.
‐‐ Bernardo Bertolucci

A monomaniac is a sick person whose mentality is perfectly healthy in all respects but one; he has a single flaw, clearly localized. At times, for example, he has an unreasonable and absurd desire to drink or steal or use abusive language; but all his other acts and all his other thoughts are strictly correct.
‐‐ Emile Durkheim

A monopoly on the means of communication may define a ruling elite more precisely than the celebrated Marxian formula of monopoly in the means of production.
‐‐ Robert Anton Wilson

A montage is incredibly challenging. When I can, I'd like to know what the music is going to be ahead of time because that will affect the beat, the pace of the montage.
‐‐ Michelle MacLaren

A month after the scandal broke, I tried to go back to work at the pharmaceutical company after a leave of absence. But because of all the publicity and resulting pressure and stress, I finally resigned.
‐‐ Donna Rice

A month and a half after my first audition, I won the role on 'Lost.'
‐‐ Evangeline Lilly

A month before graduation I got an off-Broadway job. Then I did some commercials, including one for MCI. You can only see half of me, but it paid well. Thank God for commercials.
‐‐ Lee Pace

A month before the season, I don't order fries with my club sandwich.
‐‐ Mario Lemieux

A month before the season I stop putting ketchup on my french fries.
‐‐ Mario Lemieux

A mood disorder is dangerous. You've got to get those dramatic waves of highs and lows stabilized. It's dangerous if you don't.
‐‐ Jane Pauley

A moral argument about whether censorship is good or bad deteriorates quickly into accusations about who is more or less patriotic, moral, pious, and so on.
‐‐ Rebecca MacKinnon

A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives - of approving of some and disapproving of others.
‐‐ Charles Darwin

A moral lesson is better expressed in short sayings than in long discourse.
‐‐ Johann Georg Zimmermann

A moral monopoly is the antithesis of a marketplace of ideas.
‐‐ Thomas Sowell

A more accurate statement would be that I was the first person since Jedi who was permitted to stick a fork into the piecrust to see if there was still any steam underneath.
‐‐ Timothy Zahn

A more complex - but only slightly more original - way to feel out of it is available at the hip and pretentious nightclubs and bars along the Sunset Strip.
‐‐ Merrill Markoe

A more consistent and sustainable relationship with China will be a core goal of my administration. That requires open channels of communication, both with China's leadership and the Taiwanese people.
‐‐ Tsai Ing-wen

A more effective international disease surveillance system is essential for global security both against a bioterrorist attack or a naturally occurring disease.
‐‐ Daniel Akaka

A more humane form of capitalism is about the best I think we can get. Which might sound very reformist or conservative, but that's basically where I am.
‐‐ Henry Louis Gates

A more important reason is that the bands will intuitively trust someone they think is a peer, and who speaks fondly of the same formative rock and roll experiences.
‐‐ Steve Albini

A more productive economy in the long term will bring us higher tax revenues, but that requires long-term investment in infrastructure and the skills necessary to grow a balanced economy.
‐‐ Jeremy Corbyn

A more secret, sweet, and overpowering beauty appears to man when his heart and mind open to the sentiment of virtue.
‐‐ Ralph Waldo Emerson