Mystique is rare now, isn’t it? There aren’t that many enigmas in this modern world. – Benedict Cumberbatch
The sovereignty of scriptures of all religions must come to an end if we want to have a united integrated modern India. – B. R. Ambedkar
Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan. They’d all fit more under the Libertarian label than the modern day Republican label. – Drew Carey
Modern Architecture died in St. Louis, Missouri, on July 15, 1972, at 3.32 p.m. (or thereabouts), when the infamous Pruitt Igoe scheme, or rather several of its slab blocks, were given the final coup de grace by dynamite. – Charles Jencks
Not all Modern Orthodox Jews, at the present juncture, identify with what the Israeli government does. In Israel many religious Zionists strongly oppose the government because of the disengagement. – Norman Lamm
There’s nowhere like Detroit; it’s a modern necropolis: all these art deco masterpieces crumbling away. – Malik Bendjelloul
Charles McCarry is the best modern writer on the subject of intrigue – by the breadth of Alan Furst, by the fathom of Eric Ambler, by any measure. – P. J. O’Rourke
Modern medicine, for all its advances, knows less than 10 percent of what your body knows instinctively. – Deepak Chopra
The United States is supplying the most modern and sophisticated weaponry to Israel to the tune of billions of dollars every year. – Fidel Castro
Conventional dogmas, even if endowed with the authority of an Aristotle – ancient or modern – must be tested vigorously. If they are found wanting, we need not bother with them. But if they are found to be substantially correct, we may not overlook them. – Norman Lamm
In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature, the oldest. The classic literature is always modern. – Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
In many ways, Nixon started the modern notion of ‘compassionate conservatism,’ which as we all know is neither ‘compassionate’ nor ‘conservative.’ – Monica Crowley
I’m really interested in modern history, but to fulfill a History degree at Brown you have to do modern and pre-modern. – Emma Watson
All modern MIDI synthesizers are capable of polyphony, which means they can play more than one note at a time and more than one instrument at a time. – Charles Petzold
I’ve always been fascinated by mythology or, in modern parlance, by X-Men or vampires. – Marcus Sakey
In its most limited sense, modern, art would seem to concern itself only with the technical innovations of the period. – Edward Hopper
No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not someday be antiquated. – Ellen Glasgow
They don’t think we’re in touch with modern Britain, or understand modern Britain or like modern Britain. – Francis Maude
We met with the poet Frank O’Hara, who was a link between Upper and Lower Bohemia, and who worked at the Museum of Modern Art, where we had hoped to do the readings. – David Amram
When modern political Zionism emerged around the turn of the twentieth century, most Orthodox Jews opposed it. – David Novak
One of the most feared expressions in modern times is ‘The computer is down.’ – Norman Ralph Augustine
Don’t be afraid to mix things up by pairing a military-style jacket with a velvet skirt, vintage with modern, off-the-rack with couture, formal with casual. – Nina Garcia
Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better. – George Santayana
Universities are the cathedrals of the modern age. They shouldn’t have to justify their existence by utilitarian criteria. – David Lodge