“When you stroll through Munich it can happen that you suddenly stand in front of an old house, an idyllically-dreaming church that smiles like a friendly anachronism into our modern time.” DreamHappensHouseChurchModernFrontsFriendlyModern TimesMunichOld HousesAnachronism Author:Joseph Goebbels
“Well, method is, it seems to me, a natural growth out of a need, and from a need the modern artist has found new ways of expressing the world about him. I happen to find ways that are different from the usual techniques, which seems a little strange at the moment, but I don't think there's anything very different about it. I paint on the floor and this isn't unusual - the Orientals did that.” ThinkingWorldWayNeedsWellsLittlesDifferentMomentsSeemsHappensArtistFoundGrowthNaturalModernStrangeMethodPaintTechniqueUnusualUsualNew WaysModern Art Author:Jackson Pollock
“It is customary for columnists to complain about the excesses of Premiership footballers, whenever - as happens regularly - there is an incident involving some combination of sex, drugs, drink, violence and the constabulary. But modern footballers have a lot of both money and disposable time, a combination that has proved a recipe for personal disaster throughout history. And these incidents take place generally round night clubs rather than football clubs. The average Premiership player who turned up for work drunk would have a career-expectancy measurable in minutes.” HappensNightSexCareersPlayerViolenceModernMinutesFootballDrinkDrugRoundsAverageClubsComplainingDisasterDrunkSoccerCombinationAnalysisExcessRecipesIncidentsInvolvingFootballerDisposableColumnistsExpectancyFootball ClubsNight ClubSex Drugs Author:Matthew Engel
“In modern novels I try to not let myself get away and to be here, and that's why I write about my life and myself. But even when I do that there's an element of disappearing to a place that's not me. It's "the selflessness of writing". It seldom happens, but when it does it's worth quite a lot.” WritingTryingDoeHappensNovelModernElementsDisappearGet AwaySelflessnessModern Novel Author:Karl Ove Knausgard
“This is my prediction for the future: Whatever hasn't happened will happen, and no one will be safe from it.” HappensHappenedModernSafePredictionsModern Life Author:John B. S. Haldane
“Let's face it, though, anything that's apt to happen to an appliance like a blender isn't covered by the warranty anyway, so I never send them in. If it breaks, I'll buy a new one. That's the American way.” IfsWayHappensFacesBreakModernCoveredModern LifeAppliancesBlendersWarranty Author:Andy Rooney
“We think that we have to do so many things and it's unfortunate, entire modern society is besotted with the do-ables, we have to do this, we have to have a half-hour of yoga, an hour of meditation, 2 hours of this, and then 12 hours of work and non-stop electronic gadgets, gizmos etc. etc., and then go home and take care of the family, and then take the children to wherever, and what tends to happen is we do way too much. The society does way too much. One of the greatest things in healing is try for just one day to do nothing. Very difficult.” ThinkingWayTryingChildrenDoeHomeHappensCareDifficultHoursHealingHalfToo MuchMeditationModernOne DayYogaTake CareJust OneEtcUnfortunateModern SocietyHalf HoursGadgetsNon Stop Author:Maya Tiwari
“The last few decades have been marked by a special cultivation of the romance of the future. We seem to have made up our minds to misunderstand what has happened; and we turn, with a sort of relief, to stating what will happen-which is apparently much easier...The modern mind is forced towards the future by a certain sense of fatigue, not unmixed with terror, with which it regards the past.” MindHas BeensMadeSeemsHappensLastsPastRomanceCertainTurnsLearningHappenedModernSpecialEasierRegardTerrorDecadesReliefFatigueCultivation Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton
“I think that what happens is that all of my modern influences blend together with the older soul influences and you get Mayer Hawthorne.” ThinkingSoulHappensTogetherInfluenceModernMayerHawthorne Author:Mayer Hawthorne
“Modern abstract art starts in Russia in about 1915 with Malevich, and then the Russian Revolution happens, and eventually all that experimental art gets squashed and social realism comes back into play. All of a sudden, Malevich is no longer painting black squares; he's painting peasants in colorful schmattas.” ArtPlayHappensSocialBlackModernPaintingRevolutionRussiaAbstractSquaresRealismPeasantsColorfulAbstract ArtRussian Revolution Author:Robert Longo
“Advertising is the spur on the flank that keeps modern company-helping economy out of hand till the day common sense is restored, if ever it happens.” IfsHelpingHandsHappensCommonCompanyEconomyModernCommon SenseAdvertisingSpurs Author:Robert W. Sarnoff
“Finding a single investment that will return 20% per year for 40 years tends to happen only in dreamland. In the real world, you uncover an opportunity, and then you compare other opportunities with that. And you only invest in the most attractive opportunities. That's your opportunity cost. That's what you learn in freshman economics. The game hasn't changed at all. That's why Modern Portfolio Theory is so asinine.” WorldYearsRealHappensOpportunityGamesModernChangedTheoryReturnCostFindingsEconomicsInvestmentCompareAttractiveReal WorldPortfoliosFreshmanDreamlandOpportunity Cost Author:Charlie Munger
“Anthropologists have often described what happens to a primitive society when its spiritual values are exposed to the impact of modern civilisation. Its people lose the meaning of their lives, their social organisation disintegrates, and they themselves morally decay. We are now in the same condition. But we have never really understood what we have lost, for our spiritual leaders unfortunately were more interested in protecting their institutions than in understanding the mystery that symbols present.” PeopleHappensSpiritualValuesLostSocialUnderstandingLosesLeaderMysteryModernConditionsUnderstoodInstitutionsImpactSymbolsExposedDecayPrimitiveCivilisationOrganisationAnthropologistsSpiritual LeaderSpiritual Values Author:Carl Jung
“I'm not against banking. Banking allowed our modern society to happen, it is essential. It connects the work through finance, so banking is good.” HappensModernEssentialsFinanceBankingModern Society Author:Adam McKay