“For me to be pompous is the most horrible thing in the world. It's like putting a wall around you. It screws you up. You'd better be willing to change your views or adapt and be modern.” WorldViewsModernWillingWallHorribleScrewsHorrible ThingsPompousScrew YouWilling To Change Author:Jean Pigozzi
“Sending grown-ups up the wall is one of the things adolescence is all about. A few years ago it was done with rock 'n' roll music. Now at least they can do it quietly with a home computer.” YearsDoneHomeCan DoModernRocksWallComputerYears AgoRock N RollAdolescenceModern LifeRock N Roll Music Author:Russell Baker
“I think it modern society as a whole, but definitively in Brazil, spaces are so well divided and there are so many barriers, and so many divisions, so many lines and so many borderlines, basically telling you that you should be here but not here. This is my space and this is your space, and this is expressed very dramatically in architecture, we have a very kind of aggressive, almost medieval concept for architecture, which is basically keeping people out. So you get high walls, fences, and electric fences, and divisions like that.” PeopleThinkingShouldWellsKindWholeLinesSpaceModernWallConceptsArchitectureBarriersDivisionDividedAggressiveElectricFenceMedievalBrazilModern SocietyGetting HighBorderlineMy Space Author:Kleber Mendonca Filho
“Anecdote: A house that is rooted to one spot but can travel as quickly as you change your mind and is complete in itself is surely the most desirable of houses. Our modern house with its cumbersome walls and its foundations planted deep in the ground is nothing better than a prison and more and more prison like does it become the longer we live there, and wear fetters of a association and sentiment.” MindDoeHouseModernWallFoundationPrisonSpotsSentimentsAssociationRootedDesirableAnecdotesChanging Your MindFetters Author:Virginia Woolf
“You don't have to paint your walls lime green just to try to have your home feel decorated. If you're a classic dresser or preppy dresser or a modern dresser, you wear a lot of black - whatever it is - your home should reflect that as well.” IfsFeelsShouldTryingWellsHomeBlackModernWallGreenPaintClassicLimesDressersYour WallPreppyLime Green Author:Nate Berkus
“Here and there, in some older houses, old faded daguerreotypes still hang on the walls... They seem to us to be very simple... compared with the artistic and skillful portraits made in later days... Here was a photograph that at one time had been the last word, a very modern portrait... Today it is just a part of cultural history. The small yellowed surface has acquired depth, an admonishing perspective. We hold in our hand a symbol of the structure and ideology of an epoch.” MadeStillsHandsSeemsTodayLastsHouseSimpleModernPerspectiveWallStructureDepthPhotographSurfaceIdeologySymbolsArtisticOne TimePortraitsLast WordsHere And ThereFadedSkillfulEpochDaguerreotypes Author:Isak Dinesen
“Between the poor and any appreciation for modern science stands a wall made of failed schools, defunded libraries, denied opportunities, and the systematic use of science and technology to benefit other people at their [the poor's] expense.” PeopleMadeUseSchoolOpportunityPoorTechnologyModernWallBenefitsLibraryAppreciationExpensesDeniedSystematicScience And TechnologyModern ScienceUses Of Science Author:John Michael Greer