#modern

The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened. ↗

— Tom Wolfe

#anything #art #before #completed #distributed

In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing. ↗

— William Wordsworth

#crook #doing #feared #honest #honest man

Modern records are all made with virtually identical gear, software plug-ins and everything. Everybody wants everything to sound like the last thing that was popular because they're chasing their tails. ↗

— Dweezil Zappa

#chasing #everybody #everything #gear #identical

I was serious about ballet for a long time, but my mom got me into tap and jazz and modern and hip-hop, and I was one of those over-lessoned children. ↗

— Greta Gerwig

#ballet #children #got #hip-hop #i

Modern diplomats approach every problem with an open mouth. ↗

— Arthur Goldberg

#diplomats #every #modern #mouth #open

Merely external emancipation has made of the modern woman an artificial being. Now, woman is confronted with the necessity of emancipating herself from emancipation, if she really desires to be free. ↗

— Emma Goldman

#being #confronted #desires #emancipation #external

Modern dancing is old fashioned. ↗

— Samuel Goldwyn

#fashioned #modern #old

You are ugly when you love her, you are beautiful and fresh, vital and free, modern and poetic when you don't... you are more beautiful as an orphan than as your mother's son. ↗

— Witold Gombrowicz

#free #fresh #her #love #modern

The reason for the sadness of this modern age and the men who live in it is that it looks for the truth in everything and finds it. ↗

— Edmond de Goncourt

#everything #finds #live #looks #men

It allows you to say things that sound very dramatic and get away with it. If you had characters in modern fiction say the same things as they're driving down the street in an Oldsmobile they'd sound ludicrous! ↗

— Terry Goodkind

#away #characters #down #dramatic #driving