“The modern reader (or viewer, or listener: let's include everybody) is perilously overloaded. His attention is, to use the latest lingo,'targeted' by powerful forces? Our consciousness is a staging area, a field of operations for all kinds of enterprises, which make free use of it.” KindUseForcePowerfulAttentionConsciousnessModernFieldsReaderAreasAll KindsOperationsEnterpriseListenersViewersStagingOverloaded Author:Saul Bellow
“The national debt has given rise to joint stock companies, to dealings in negotiable effects of all kinds, and to agiotage , in a word to stock-exchange gambling and the modern bankocracy .” KindGivenCompanyModernEffectsDebtAll KindsGamblingJointsDealingsNational DebtStock ExchangeJoint Stock Company Book:Capital: A Critique of Political Economy - The Process of Capitalist Production Source: Capital: A Critique of Political Economy - The Process of Capitalist Production
“I did a real boot camp once which with The Thin Red Line which was learning military exercises and this was far less strenuous. I really had a blast. We were all kind of thrown into the woods and we didn't have any of the modern conveniences that we take for granted. Learned how to survive without anything.” KindRealLinesModernMilitaryExerciseRedWoodsAll KindsGrantedThrownCampsBootsConvenienceBlastBoot CampRed LinesModern Conveniences Author:Adrien Brody
“I hate ideologies of all kinds, so I avoid jargon. I've done enough philosophy to know that some specialized terms are really needed. I don't complain when Kant does it. Or when Aristotle introduces all kinds of new words; he needed them. But these other people [modern philosophers] are just obfuscating. It just makes me annoyed.” PeopleKnowsKindDoeDoneEnoughPhilosophyHateTermModernNeededI HatePhilosopherComplainingAll KindsIdeologyIntroducingAnnoyedJargonNew Words Author:William H. Gass
“Hillary Clinton does very well in Pennsylvania generally. I think she connects with the working white people and all kinds of people that normally would have a problem with the modern Democratic Party.” PeopleThinkingWellsKindDoeProblemWhitePartyModernDemocraticClintonAll KindsDemocratic PartyPennsylvania Author:Chris Matthews
“At the emergence of the modern novel with Rabelais and Cervantes, all kinds of things were possible in a long-form prose work. Within a couple of hundred years, most of those possibilities were abandoned in favor of a text that efficiently transmitted sentiments.” YearsKindLongFormNovelModernPossibilityCoupleHundredFavorsAll KindsProseSentimentsAbandonedEmergenceModern Novel Author:Teju Cole