You can't have modern states based on ideas which have been out of date for a thousand years.
Salman Rushdie
Walkman was the precursor to the cell phone, in terms of your strategy for getting through the urban landscape and the modern experience. Insulate... →
Douglas Rushkoff
Modern travelling is not travelling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel.
John Ruskin
Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs... →
Bertrand Russell
The best thing about modern living is anaesthesia.
Meg Ryan
Chris Ofili's suave, stippled, visually tricked-out paintings of the nineties, with their allover fields of shimmering dots and clumps of dung... →
Jerry Saltz
Mission accomplished. The Museum of Modern Art's wide-open, tall-ceilinged, super-reinforced second floor was for all intents and purposes built... →
I have two bikes: a classic 1978 Yamaha SR500 and a more modern Suzuki SV650. I've been into cars and bikes since I was tiny.
Thomas Sangster
Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.
George Santayana
First off, I have to mention what is undoubtedly the greatest phenomenon of the modern era: All You Can Eat Buffets.
Alexei Sayle