In the modern world, if you want to travel off the beaten path, stay off the beaten media path.

Par Khang Kijarro Nguyen

Despite 4,000 years of proven usefulness, quarantines seem to be to modern international public health experts as garlic is to a vampire.

Par T.K. Naliaka

Modern traveling is not traveling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel.

Par John Ruskin

The notion that a human being should be constantly happy is a uniquely modern, uniquely American, uniquely destructive idea.

Par Andrew Weil

One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.

Par Kurt Vonnegut

In one sense, (Duchamp's) “The Large Glass” is a glimpse into Hell; a peculiarly modernist Hell of repetition and loneliness.

Par Robert Hughes

In modern times couples are more concerned about loyalty than love.

Par Amit Kalantri

I'm just thinking, you might be the modern version of a war bride."

Par Malcolm Brooks

Marriage, [...], the most advanced form of warfare in the modern world.

Par Malcolm Bradbury

There was altogether too much candor in married life; it was an indelicate modern idea, and frequently led to upsets in a household, if not divorce...

Par Muriel Spark