All Quotes

Modernism in Vienna brought together science and culture in a new way to create an Age of Insight that emphasized a more complex view of the human mind than had ever existed before.
‐‐ Eric Kandel

Modernism is typically defined as the condition that begins when people realize God is truly dead, and we are therefore on our own.
‐‐ Phillip E. Johnson

Modernism, rebelling against the ornament of the 19th century, limited the vocabulary of the designer. Modernism emphasized straight lines, eliminating the expressive S curve. This made it harder to communicate emotions through design.
‐‐ Eva Zeisel

Modernism released us from the constraints of everything that had gone before with a euphoric sense of freedom.
‐‐ Arthur Erickson

Modernist architecture and town planning is inimical to human beings... based on the Darwinian concept that evolution is open ended, that there must always be something new and better.
‐‐ Leon Krier

Modernist fiction is tied to problems of writers. Self-glorifying. Existential struggle. This has not been a big part of genre writing.
‐‐ Paul Park

Modernity exists in the form of a desire to wipe out whatever came earlier, in the hope of reaching at least a point that could be called a true present, a point of origin that marks a new departure.
‐‐ Paul de Man

Modernity has been largely shaped for Jews by three momentous experiences: the acquisition of citizenship by individual Jews in secular nation-states, the destruction of one-third of Jewry in the Holocaust, and the founding of the State of Israel.
‐‐ David Novak

Modernity is a qualitative, not a chronological, category.
‐‐ Theodor Adorno

Modernity means overabundance. We are living in the age of mass-produced objects, things that come without announcing themselves and end up on our tables, on our walls. We use them - most of us don't even notice them - and then they vanish without fanfare.
‐‐ Orhan Pamuk

Modernity signifies the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art of which the other half is the eternal and the immutable.
‐‐ Charles Baudelaire

Modernity, the child of the Enlightenment, failed when it became apparent that the good society cannot be achieved by unaided reason.
‐‐ Robert Bork

Modes are infinite, and laws are infinite.
‐‐ Mahavira

Modesty and unselfishness - these are the virtues which men praise - and pass by.
‐‐ Andre Maurois

'Modesty Blaise' is not well known in the United States, but in the United Kingdom, she's an institution - especially for a comic book reader of a certain age. She's a wonderful creation, and her strip ran in newspapers for a long time. So whenever female spies come to mind for us, they think of 'Modesty Blaise'.
‐‐ Antony Johnston

Modesty forbids what the law does not.
‐‐ Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Modesty in dress and language and deportment is a true mark of refinement and a hallmark of a virtuous Latter-day Saint woman.
‐‐ Ezra Taft Benson

Modesty is a learned affectation. And as soon as life slams the modest person against the wall, that modesty drops.
‐‐ Maya Angelou

Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.
‐‐ John Kenneth Galbraith

Modesty is good. But not when it comes at the cost of honesty.
‐‐ Kangana Ranaut

Modesty is my best quality.
‐‐ Jack Benny

Modesty is not one of my virtues.
‐‐ Alan King

Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.
‐‐ Joseph Addison

Modesty is the color of virtue.
‐‐ Diogenes

Modesty is the conscience of the body.
‐‐ Honore de Balzac

Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.
‐‐ Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

Modesty isn't one of my strong suits.
‐‐ Paul Greengard

Modesty means admitting the possibility of error, subsuming the self for the good of the whole, remaining open to surprise and the gifts that only failure can bring. There are many ways to practice it. Try taking up golf. Or making your own bagels. Or raising a teenager.
‐‐ Nancy Gibbs

Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
‐‐ Oliver Goldsmith

Modesty should be typical of the success of a champion.
‐‐ Major Taylor

Modesty: the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.
‐‐ Oliver Herford

Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world.
‐‐ Miguel de Cervantes

Modesty used to be considered a natural female attribute. No more.
‐‐ Linda Chavez

Modi government has not flouted any rule or regulation to help anyone.
‐‐ Gautam Adani

Modi Model of Development is more a hype than reality, and the Congress has always stood for inclusive development.
‐‐ Preneet Kaur

Modification of form is admitted to be a matter of time.
‐‐ Alfred Russel Wallace

Mofaz was elected to head Kadima since the party had been shattered.
‐‐ Ehud Olmert

Mohammed al-Qahtani was not alleged to be a leader of the Sept. 11 plot. He was not trained as a pilot. If he was involved, he was one of the 'muscle' hijackers.
‐‐ Bill Dedman

Mohammed personally mapped out seven heavens. If he got to seven, you know there's more.
‐‐ Patti Smith

Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from strength to strength to strength.
‐‐ Karen Armstrong

Moisture, moisture, moisture is the key to maintaining our hair. I use water-based products and try to put something on my hair every day. I pay special attention to my edges, as they are so fragile.
‐‐ Erica Ash

'Mojave' is a very wild, throwback film with these two dudes going after each other.
‐‐ Oscar Isaac

'Moldova: Yes or No?' That's a great app, and we actually used the geo-locator on your phone, so if you are in Moldova, it will say 'Yes, you're in Moldova.' I'm so excited. People need that. That's the whole point. The whole reason you buy a $500 phone is to see if you are... in Moldova. Or not.
‐‐ Jimmy Fallon

Molecular biology has routinely taken problematic things under its wing without altering core ideas.
‐‐ Ian Hacking

Molecular chemistry, the chemistry of the covalent bond, is concerned with uncovering and mastering the rules that govern the structures, properties and transformations of molecular species.
‐‐ Jean-Marie Lehn

Molecular chirality plays a key role in science and technology. In particular, life depends on molecular chirality in that many biological functions are inherently dissymmetric.
‐‐ Ryoji Noyori

Molecular collision dynamics has been a wonderful area of research for all practitioners. This is especially true for those who were following the footsteps of pioneers and leaders of the field twenty years ago.
‐‐ Yuan T. Lee

Molecular gastronomy is not bad... but without sound, basic culinary technique, it is useless.
‐‐ Alton Brown

Molecules A and B meet, marry, and beget the species. This takes place in one-millionth of a billionth of a second. This is a fundamental process in nature, and the world was looking for a way to be able to see the process. But many brilliant people said it couldn't be done.
‐‐ Ahmed Zewail