Modernity quotes

“There is little chance for a person to exercise the imagination today in this complex, programmed society we have.”
Peter Cushing

“You know something, Phil? I suddenly want to live to be very old. Very. I want to be around to see what happens. The world is stirring in very strange ways. Maybe this is the century for it. Maybe that's why it's so troubled. Other centuries had their driving forces. What will ours have been when men look back? Maybe it won't be the American...” (continue)(continue reading)
Anne Revere - Mrs. Green

“I’m cool dad, that’s my thing. I’m hip, I surf the web, I text. LOL: laugh out loud, OMG: oh my god, WTF: why the face.”
Ty Burrell - Phil Dunphy

“It is my daughters that teach me in the languages of the modern world. For instance, are my princely robes not on fleek?”
Eddie Murphy - Prince Akeem

“It's always shocking when you see a modern woman in a period story line. It doesn't make sense.”
Florence Pugh

“We Americans - we are progressively modern. We believe that it is equally important to prepare the pupils for the mutually satisfactory mating and the successful child rearing.”
Peter Sellers - Dr. Zempf

“- Robert Crawley, Earl of Grantham: No maid, no valet, no nanny, even!
- Bertie Hexham: It's 1927. We're modern folk.”
Hugh Bonneville - Robert Crawley, Earl of Grantham
Harry Hadden-Paton - Bertie Hexham

“Look, this is a modern war, ain't it? And I'm a modern guy, and the modern age is up in the air, not down here.”
John R. Reilly - Private Murphy

“The modern battlefield is everywhere.”
Rhys Ifans - Corbin O'Brian

“It's 2014, asshole. You can't fucking use 'faggot'. 'Gay' is okay.' 'Homosexual', maybe.”
Channing Tatum - Jenko

“In my letter confirming my employment, Your Majesty, you claimed you wanted Siam to take its place among the nations of the modern world. You spoke of building something greater than yourself. A country where no man is above the law. Which is why I chose to come here.”
Jodie Foster - Anna

“In this modern complicated world, man breaks down under the strain, the bewilderment, disappointment, and disillusionment. He gets lost, goes crazy, commits suicide.”

Claude Rains - Dr. Alexander Tower

“We live in an era where pizzas show up faster than the police.”
Claude Chabrol

“All the studios now are owned by huge conglomerates and corporations, unlike the old Hollywood where everybody knew each other by their first names.”
Joel Schumacher

“- Dr Hibbert: We can't fix your heart, but thanks to modern technology we can tell you exactly how damaged it is!
- Homer Simpson: What an age we live in!”
Harry Shearer - Dr Hibbert
Dan Castellaneta - Homer Simpson

“- Danny McGuire: A bandstand. Right over there in that corner. And a big band, like in the 40's.
- Sonny: Nah, nah, nah. Bandstands went out with running boards. Over there. A great rock 'n' roll band. This is the 80's!
- Danny McGuire: Real smooth dancers... wild trombone... the band decked out in tuxedos.
- Sonny: Six guys wearing electric...” (continue)(continue reading)
Gene Kelly - Danny McGuire
Michael Beck - Sonny Malone

“You despise someone like me because you despise the modern. But you are at the very forefront of what is modern. You write about it, you document it... Unlike you, though, I have chosen to embrace it.”

Sir Ian Holm - Doctor Murnau

“- Dwight 'Bucky' Bleichert: I don't get modern art.
- Madeleine Linscott: I doubt modern art gets you, either.”
Josh Hartnett - Dwight 'Bucky' Bleichert
Hilary Swank - Madeleine Linscott

“Modern cars: they all look like electric shavers.”
Mickey Rourke - Marv

“The modern woman always has her lovers at her wedding.”
Daphne Zuniga - Beverly Young

“All cultures have had means and techniques of expressing their immediate aims. The thing that interests me is that today, painters do not have to go to a subject matter outside of themselves. They work from a different source, they work from within. It seems to me that the artist cannot express this age, the airplane, the atom bomb, the radio,...” (continue)(continue reading)
Ed Harris - Jackson Pollock

“Modern art, to me, is nothing more than the expression of the contemporary aims of the age that we're living in.”
Ed Harris - Jackson Pollock

“It's a stinking world because there's no law and order anymore! It's a stinking world because it lets the young get on to the old, like you done. Oh, it's no world for an old man any longer. What sort of a world is it at all? Men on the moon, and men spinning around the earth, and there's not no attention paid to earthly law and order no more.”
Paul Farrell - Tramp

“- Father Strapovic: You feel threatened by Theresa.
- Rose Muldoon: Threatened?
- Father Strapovic: Yes. See, she's taking up a lot of Danny's time, so you're feeling threatened that she's trying to steal your son.
- Rose Muldoon: What?
- Father Strapovic: Rose, I know you realize it's the nineties, I'm just not sure you realize it's the...” (continue)(continue reading)
Marvin J. McIntyre - Father Strapovic
Maureen O'Hara - Rose Muldoon

“The last modern thing I liked was the miniskirt. With technology now, nobody understands it... and that's the simple fact of the situation.”
Henry Jones - Simms