184 Quotes About Modern-life

We can't test these absolute limits on humans. We can't blast them with sound. However, we can do that to animals because they don't have the same political base that we do.

Civilization is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences.

Traveling with children corresponds roughly to traveling third class in Bulgaria.

If we continue at this leisurly pace, we will have to pass Russian customs when we land on the moon.

In a liquid modern life there are no permanent bonds, and any that we take up for a time must be tied loosely so that they can be untied again, as quickly and as effortlessly as possible, when circumstances change - as they surely will in our liquid modern society, over and over again.

That's part of the requirement for me to be an artist is that you're trying to share your personal existence with others and trying to illuminate modern life, trying to understand life.

A great curse has fallen upon modern life with the discovery of the vastness of the word Education.

What's all this fuss about plutonium? How can something named after a Disney character be dangerous?

You're getting old when you see a girl who looks like someone you used to know, and it turns out to be her daughter.