Modern Quotes

Elixir’ means magical potion, so I wanted to depict the kind of bottle that was used in ancient times, but that looked modern and chic as well. I also wanted it to have a golden tint to evoke the memories of sands and sunsets.

Black-and-whit e always looks modern, whatever that word means.

In the modern world, in which thousands of people are dying every hour as a consequence of politics, no writing anywhere can begin to be credible unless it is informed by political awareness and principles.

The modern world is not geared properly to the storage of goods.

As a young boy, scouting gave me a confidence and camaraderie that is hard to find in modern life.

Although I am in sympathy with modern idioms, I abhor music which attempts nothing more than the illustration of a stylistic fad. And in using modern techniques,

I like the 50s, party-movie aesthetic of the beach. I’m not really into modern-day beach.

That is jargon – the practice of never calling a spade a spade when you might instead call it a manual earth-restructuring implement – and it is one of the great curses of modern English.

The mathematicians are the priests of the modern world.

Some men, like modern shops, hang everything in their show windows; when one goes inside, nothing is to be found.