“For me, modern technology has ruined romance and movies - nobody can run to the airplane gate anymore.” RunningRomanceTechnologyModernGatesAirplaneRuinedModern Technology Author:Lorene Scafaria
“Modern critics, who refuse to let a plain thing alone, have now started a theory that Cervantes's work is a vast piece of "symbolism." If so, Cervantes didn't know it himself and nobody thought of it for three hundred years. He meant it as a satire upon the silly romances of chivalry.” IfsKnowsYearsRomanceThreePiecesModernTheoryHundredCriticsRefuseSillySatireSymbolismChivalry Book:Leacock on Life Source: Leacock on Life
“the three most common myths of modern romance: 1. Single men would prefer being married. 2. Married men actually leave their wives. 3. Men who wear gold chains give gold rings.” MenGivingRomanceThreeCommonWifeModernMarriedGoldDatingMythRingsChainsBeing MarriedSingle ManMarried Man Author:Linda Sunshine
“This is the greatest and most fraught romance of modern society, the marriage between the IT staff and those who depend on them.” RomanceModernDependsStaffModern Society Author:Marilyn Johnson
“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