“I generally hate the luxury modern apartment with too many things out of sight and so clean you cannot touch.” HateModernSightCleanLuxuryApartment Author:Jean Nouvel
“Beauty in this Iron Age must turn, From fluid living rainbow shapes to torn, And sootened fragments, ashes in an urn, On whose gray surface runes are traced by a Norn, Who hopes to wake the Future to arise, In Phoenix-fashion, and to shine with rays, To blast the sight of modern men whose dyes, Of selfishness and lust have stained our days...” MenAgeTurnsModernFashionShapesSightShiningSurfaceLustAriseSelfishnessIronGrayRaysAshesRainbowTornFragmentsFluidBlastPhoenixModern ManRunes Author:Philip Jose Farmer
“Much modern art is, at first sight, unnerving... in the contemporary world, we have come to expect instant response and immediate understanding.” WorldFirstsArtUnderstandingModernArt IsSightResponseContemporaryInstantModernismModern Art Author:Nicholas Serota
“The capacity for loving strangers, whether one thinks of them as fictional beings or stars one will never meet, is a profound reflection on the new consciousness whereby every individual leads his or life while aware of all the billions of other people on Earth. Perhaps it is a fantasy or a fallacy that we can feel for so many strangers. Perhaps it is a mask for selfishness. But no matter the modern stress on special effects, there isn't a sight in movies as momentous as shots of a face as its mind is being changed. And only movies have allowed that.” PeopleThinkingFeelsMindMatterEarthFilmFacesIndividualStarsConsciousnessFantasyModernSpecialEffectsChangedReflectionShotsCapacityHollywoodSightStressProfoundStrangerBillionsSelfishnessMaskFallacySpecial Effects Author:Edward Jay Epstein
“Living in the modern world, clothed and muffled, forced to convey our sense of our bodies in terms of remote symbols like walking sticks and umbrellas and handbags, it is easy to lose sight of the immediacy of the human body plan.” WorldHumansBodyEasyTermLosesPlansModernWalkingSightSticksSymbolsHuman BodyModern WorldUmbrellaImmediacyHandbagsWalking Sticks Book:Male and female: a study of the sexes in a changing world Source: Male and female: a study of the sexes in a changing world
“I have come to the conclusion that the modern interpretation of the Declaration of Independence is something like this: I am as good as those that think themselves better and a long sight better than those who only think themselves as good.” ThinkingLongModernSightIndependenceConclusionInterpretationDeclarationDeclaration Of Independence Author:Gertrude Atherton
“The novelist loses, every time. Politics is insidious, the modern conduct of war (from shoulder-launched rockets to drone strikes) is insidious. Someone presses a button in California and twenty people are incinerated at a wedding in Pakistan. The killer is spared the sight of the corpses.” PeopleWarLosesModernSightTwentiesPressesStrikesShouldersCaliforniaNovelistsKillersButtonsPakistanCorpsesRocketsDronesInsidious Author:Teju Cole