Modern Life Quotes - Page 12

• The amount of quaint, authentic, rustic charm varies inversely with the pounds per square inch of water pressure in the shower.

  Frank Mankiewicz

  Squares, Water, Pounds

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• Young men still desire women as much as ever, even though they don't want to marry them as much.

  Clare Boothe Luce

  Men, Desire, Want

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• When I go, I'll take New Year's Eve with me.

  Guy Lombardo

  New Year, Years, Modern

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• It's like the little rat in the Skinner box who says, "I've got this psychologist under my control. Every time I press the bar, he gives me a food pellet."

  Jess Lair

  Giving, Bars, Littles

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• I don't care if my lettuce has DDT on it, just as long as it's crisp.

  Jorma Kaukonen

  Ddt, Long, Care

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• ...telephone operators now routinely use '80s-babble, chirping, "Have a nice day," the moral equivalent of the smile button.

  Stefan Kanfer

  Nice, Telephones, Buttons

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• The historical novel gives us perspective on our modern lives and helps us connect with the story, which we are continuing ourselves.

  Mary Pope Osborne

  Historical Novels, Giving, Perspective

  Source: www.yabookshelf.com

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

  Bear Grylls

  Boys, Young, Camaraderie

  "Leading questions: Bear Grylls, chief Scout". Interview with Jane Dudman, www.theguardian.com. January 12, 2011.

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• Wilderness to the people of America is a spiritual necessity, an antidote to the high pressure of modern life, a means of regaining serenity and equilibrium.

  Sigurd F. Olson

  Spiritual, Mean, America

  "We Need Wilderness". National Parks Magazine, January - March 1946.

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• Ours is a culture based on excess, on overproduction; the result is a steady loss of sharpness in our sensory experience. All the conditions of modern life - its material plenitude, its sheer crowdedness - conjoin to dull our sensory faculties

  Susan Sontag

  Loss, Culture, Excess

  Susan Sontag (1983). “A Susan Sontag reader”, Vintage

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• I base most of my fashion taste on what doesn't itch.

  Gilda Radner

  Witty, Fashion, Funny Inspirational

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• Committee - a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.

  Milton Berle

  Hilarious, Silly, Men

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