Top 100 In The Age Of Quotes
#1. We're in the age of the idea. The organization that can develop a culture of creativity and idea generation will be the winners.
Kevin Roberts
#2. Today, in the age of standardized testing, thinking and acting, reason and judgment have been thrown out the window just as teachers are increasingly being deskilled and forced to act as semi-robotic technicians good for little more than teaching for the test ...
Henry Giroux
#3. When I think of Boris Diaw, I think of Beethoven in the age of the romantics
Bill Walton
#4. Popular culture is the new Babylon, into which so much art and intellect now flow. It is our imperial sex theater, supreme temple of the western eye. We live in the age of idols. The pagan past, never dead, flames again in our mystic hierarchies of stardom.
Camille Paglia
#5. We must learn to love ourselves less and the earth more. This will not be an easy task for we live in the age of nonsense. Bombarded with thousands of messages each day that proclaim how to be loved instead of how to be loving, we have learned to love objects instead of processes.
Steve Van Matre
#6. In the Age of Kali the meek and helpless will be preyed upon without mercy, and there will be a surplus of AK-47s.
Ian McDonald
#7. An illicit love affair seems sweetly old-fashioned in the age of one night stands and orgies.
Mason Cooley
#8. If the black vote does not come out in big numbers in the age of Ferguson and voter ID, it will empower our adversaries and enhance our marginalization.
Al Sharpton
#9. Blind adoration, in the age of action, is perfectly valueless, is often embarrassing and, equally, often painful.
Mahatma Gandhi
#10. Each of the professions means a prejudice. The necessity for a career forces every one to take sides. We live in the age of the overworked, and the under-educated; the age in which people are so industrious that they become absolutely stupid.
Oscar Wilde
#11. He was a noble man, as well as a nobleman." * "Mannerheim did not grow up among the masses, but in a castle.... he was a cosmopolite in the age of nationalism; an aristocrat in the age of democracy; a conservative in the age of revolutions."t
William R. Trotter
#12. Why in the age of feminism do we still use the phrase "women and children"?
Charles Krauthammer
#13. I think it will be very challenging for someone who has not been in prominent public life in the age of Twitter to go out on the campaign trail.
Daniel Pfeiffer
#14. But Basia had come to view power as a precious and irreplaceable resource. Not something he'd ever needed to do in the age of readily available fusion.
James S.A. Corey
#15. When I think about popular culture, I can't help but think that we're living in the age of loneliness. There's this illusion that we all have instant access to each other, but we actually have no real connection.
Madonna Ciccone
#16. I thank God," he used to say, "that I was born Greek and not barbarian, freeman and not slave, man and not woman; but above all, that I was born in the age of
Will Durant
#17. In the past, history was always written by the victors. But in the age of Twitter, history is written by everyone.
Nick Bilton
#18. Now we are living in the age of comics as air
Osamu Tezuka
#19. We prefer world law in the age of self-determination to world war in the age of mass extermination.
John F. Kennedy
#20. In the age of revolution it is not knowledge that produces new wealth, but insight - insight into opportunities for discontinuous innovation. Discovery is the journey; insight is the destination. You must become your own seer.
Gary Hamel
#21. In the age of media, we are nothing but minds waiting to be filled, emotions waiting to be manipulated.
D.T. Max
#22. One of the things I like about making stuff in the age of the Internet, is that people make stuff in response to it. You can see people respond to your work visually or musically or with writing.
John Green
#23. In the Age of Aquarius, the depression and stress on mankind will tear up people who do not have the technical knowledge of self.
Harbhajan Singh Yogi
#24. In the age of globalization - an ad hoc, temp-job, fiercely competitive age - hope is not a fiction.
Katherine Boo
#25. In the age of globalisation, pooled sovereignty means more power, not less.
Jose Manuel Barroso
#26. In our modern age - in the age of free information - I don't think there is any place for dictatorships.
Rashid Al-Ghannushi
#27. Just as to a man with a hammer, everything is a nail, so in the age of science and technology, everything is a scientific and technical matter to be solved by scientific and technical means.
Os Guinness
#28. I may have grown up in the Age of Aquarius, but I'm growing old in the Age of the Acronym.
Roy Peter Clark
#29. In the age of camera phones and screenshots and Twitter ... At the end of the day, I want to share my life with somebody, you know? I want picture albums. I want to look back at our time together. And I also want kids. And if you want kids, then you want marriage.
Joe Manganiello
#30. The salient feature of America in the Age of Obama is a failed government class institutionally committed to living beyond its means, and a citizenry too many of whom are content to string along.
Mark Steyn
#31. It's really amazing that in the age of unbelief, as a smart man called it, there isn't even more fraud. After all, with no God, there's no one to ever call you to account, and no accounting at all if you can get away with it.
Ben Stein
#32. We live in the age of mass loquacity.We are all writing it or at any rate talking it: the memoir, the apologia, the c.v., the cri de coeur.
Martin Amis
#33. In the age of the internet when everybody's a pundit, we're still gonna need somebody there to go talk to the colonels, to be on the ground in Baghdad and stuff and that's very expensive.
Walter Isaacson
#34. It's tough to have an authentic relationship with awe in the age of awesome, a word that has become so overused as to be drained of its meaning.
Sharon Salzberg
#35. You have to understand as a marketer that consumers are functioning in the age of efficiency.
Mitch Joel
#36. I wanted to look at the upper-middle-class scene since the war, and in particular my generation's part in it. We had spent our early years as privileged members of a privileged class. How were we faring in the Age of the Common Man? How ought we to be faring?
Simon Raven
#37. Cognitive consonance is what writing in the Age of the idiot is all about. The key to success in the scribbling profession is to strike the right balance of mediocrity in writing and thinking, which invariably entails echoing one of two party lines, poorly.
Ilana Mercer
#38. It's trite to say that the world has gotten smaller in the age of globalization, but my travels have told me that it's wrong to think this means there is some kind of uniform world culture.
Norman Spinrad
#39. Modern art did not just happen. It came as a result of a deep reversal of spiritual values in the Age of Reason, a movement that in the course of a little more than two centuries changed the world.
Hans Rookmaaker
#40. The ruin of Paganism, in the age of Theodosius, is perhaps the only example of the total extirpation of any ancient and popular superstition; and may therefore deserve to be considered, as a singular event in the history of the human mind.
Edward Gibbon
#41. The age of puberty is a crisis in the age of man worth studying. It is the passage from the unconscious to the conscious; from thesleep of passions to their rage.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#42. People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be, that they're all asleep at the switch. Consequently we are living in the Age of Human Error.
Florence King
#43. Situational unawareness in the private marketplace or on the battlefield will cost you your livelihood or your life. In the Age of Obama, however, such willful ignorance is a job prerequisite. The less you know the better.
Michelle Malkin
#44. We are now at the point in the age of global warming hysteria where the IPCC global warming theory has crashed into the hard reality of observations.
Roy Spencer
#45. I knew a man who, in the age of chain-saws, went right on cutting his wood with a handsaw and an axe. He was a healthier and a saner man than I am. I shall let his memory trouble my thoughts.
Wendell Berry
#46. Modernity means overabundance. We are living in the age of mass-produced objects, things that come without announcing themselves and end up on our tables, on our walls. We use them - most of us don't even notice them - and then they vanish without fanfare.
Orhan Pamuk
#47. This is where our obsession with going fast and saving time leads. To road rage, air rage, shopping rage, relationship rage, office rage, vacation rage, gym rage. Thanks to speed, we live in the age of rage.
Carl Honore
#48. This is hard to accept in the age of the Internet. It has been very hard for me to explain that the more data you get, the less you know what's going on, and the more iatrogenics you will cause. People are still under the illusion that "science" means more data.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#49. People want everything quick and now. We live in the age of social media and hyper digital. Tweets are published in less than a second, Safari pages load in less than three seconds.
Aeriel Miranda
#50. We're in the age of the series, trilogy, boxed sets.
Glen Duncan
#51. I've been dealing with epic images, and I realized all of a sudden that I grew up in the age of epics.
Robert Longo
#52. The central question driving literary aesthetics in the age of the iPad is no longer 'How should novels be?' but 'Why write novels at all?'
Garth Risk Hallberg
#53. Everybody trusted Cronkite because he reminded them of their favorite uncle or trusted family physician. Being square in the age of the Beatles made Cronkite retro cool.
Douglas Brinkley
#54. TV ushered in the age of postliteracy. And we have gone so far beyond that. I mean, what with the Internet and Google and Wikipedia. We have entered the age of post-intelligence.
P. J. O'Rourke
#55. I grew up in the age of radio. That was my main boyhood form of entertainment: lying on the living room floor with my ears affixed to the radio. I loved shows like 'The Phantom,' 'Cisco Kid,' and even 'Happy Theater' when I was younger.
George Takei
#56. The historic role of the consumer has been nothing more than a giant maw at the end of the mass media's long conveyer belt, the all-absorbing Yin to the mass media's all-producing Yang ... In the age of the internet, no one is a passive consumer anymore because everyone is a media outlet.
Clay Shirky
#57. There is no more wild, free, vigorous growth of the forest, but everything is in pots or rows like a rococo garden ... The pupil is in the age of spontaneous variation which at no period of life is so great. He does not want a standardized, overpeptonized mental diet. It palls on his appetite.
G. Stanley Hall
#58. My theory is that in the age of the internet, it's what you write, not where you write it, that matters.
Daniel Lyons
#59. In the age of technology there is constant access to vast amounts of information. The basket overflows; people get overwhelmed; the eye of the storm is not so much what goes on in the world, it is the confusion of how to think, feel, digest, and react to what goes on.
Criss Jami
#60. In the age of ideologies, we must make up our minds about murder. If murder has rational foundations, then our period and we ourselves have significance. If it has no such foundations, then we are plunged into madness there is no way out except to find some significance or to desist.
Albert Camus
#61. What Erasmus called ingratitudo vulgi, the ingratitude of the masses, is increasing in the age of globalization and the Internet.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#62. In the marketplace, small businesses are the face and voice of humanity, which provides them with a great advantage in the Age of the Customer.
Jim Blasingame
#63. You know how we sometimes sigh, "Well, that was a waste of time."? Or we snap at somebody: "You're wasting my time!" What does that even mean in the age of texts and tweets, TV and video games?
Ron Brackin
#64. Leadership in telecommunications is also essential, since we are now in the age of e-commerce.
Michael Oxley
#65. clinging to modesty in the age of the Others is like sacrificing a goat to make it rain.
Rick Yancey
#66. It would have been impossible, completely and entirely, for any woman to have written the plays of Shakespeare in the age of Shakespeare.
Virginia Woolf
#67. Often old IT thinking cannot move fast enough in the age of the digitalization.
Pearl Zhu
#68. In the age of mediocrity and clones, John Stowell's uniqueness and originality are a breath of fresh air. I love playing with him.
Paul Horn
#69. Before Disney, I did other shows so I was aware of the business. They're all the same in that they're a professional environment. The only difference between a Disney show and other network shows are in the age of the actors you're working with and the age of the intended audience.
David Henrie
#70. We are not cave dwellers anymore, we live in the age of technology. When someone needs a car, he does not need to build it. He can buy it. When someone needs a murder, he himself does not need to kill. He can order it.
Friedrich Durrenmatt
#71. We live in the age of the refugee, the age of the exile.
Ariel Dorfman
#72. It is not as late as you think. It is merely early - in the age of the rebirth of individualism.
Ayn Rand
#73. In the age of the mp3, you gotta make the package special, something that's worth owning.
Zach Condon
#74. In the age of strategy, advantage flowed from owning resources. In the age of wisdom, it flows from seeding and connecting them.
Umair Haque
#75. In the Freudian age, parents say to their children, 'Don't be defensive,' meaning, 'You have no argument,' but I was born in the age of Rommel, when defense was considered an honorable thing.
Mark Helprin
#76. It should surprise no one that modern soldiers return home just as conflicted and detached as previous generations. The difference is that in the age of vapid American decadence, their simpler fundamental values are largely irrelevant to we civilians.
Tiffany Madison
#77. In the age of television, image becomes more important than substance.
S.I. Hayakawa
#79. [Professor] Frank recalled my idle remark some years ago: 'Never pass up the opportunity to have sex or appear on television.' Advice I would never give today in the age of AIDS and its television equivalent Fox News.
Gore Vidal
#80. Everyone in our culture wants to win a prize. Perhaps that is the grand lesson we have taken with us from kindergarten in the age of perversions of Dewey-style education: everyone gets a ribbon, and praise becomes a meaningless narcotic to soothe egoistic distemper.
Gerald Early
#81. We have entered a new era. Global society is interconnected as never before. [...] I suggest that we have arrived in the Age of Sustainable Development.
Jeffrey D. Sachs
#82. We live in the age of the city. The city is everything to us it consumes us and for that reason we glorify it
-Onookome Okome
Mike Davis
#84. In the age of cellphone cameras, everybody thinks of themselves as a tracker.
Carl Forti
#85. You have to understand the process of healing in the Age of Aquarius. What will give the healing is the flow of your soul energy.
Harbhajan Singh Yogi
#86. It's hard to overstate how utterly mad it is for a Fed chairman in the age of the global economy to claim that a weak currency only affects tourists. It's a little bit like saying a forest fire only really sucks if you're a woodpecker.
Matt Taibbi
#87. In the age of hyper technology and cookie crumbs, you can only trust a man in a mask. Everyone else has too much to lose.
Wayne Gladstone
#88. I'd be happy if I could think that the role of the library was sustained and even enhanced in the age of the computer.
Bill Gates
#89. The cultural decoding that many American writers require has become an even harder task in the age of globalisation. The experience they describe has grown more private; its essential background, the busy larger world, has receded.
Pankaj Mishra
#90. In the age of networked everything, life moves sideways and covers lots of ground while barely touching the earth.
Walter Kirn
#92. We look at the legacy of Frederick Douglass and Ida B. Wells and Ella Baker, Malcolm X and Martin King. We have, and part of the struggle now in the age of [Barack] Obama is how do we keep alive the legacy of Martin King?
Cornel West
#93. We are writing in the age of stylish minimalism that in truth has become even more cautious because of word processing. Nowadays, creative writing students are underwriting rather than overdoing it.
Stephen Kuusisto
#94. She grew up hard and she grew up fast, in the age of television.
Tom Petty
#95. People in the age of [President] Obama don't dress like they did in the age of [Lyndon] Johnson. That's for sure.
Al Sharpton
#96. In the age of revolution you have to be able to imagine revolutionary alternatives to the status quo. If you can't, you'll be relegated to the swollen ranks of keyboard-pounding automatons.
Gary Hamel
#97. In the age of the individual's liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew.
Theodor Adorno
#98. We cannot know what John of Leyden felt Under the Bishop 's tongs - we can only Walk in temperate London, our educated city, Wishing to cry as freely as they did who died In the Age of Faith. We have our loneliness And our regret with which to build an eschatology.
Peter Porter
#99. It's great to have an acting job in the age of Reality TV.
Lauren Graham
#100. I grew up in the age of polyester. When I got to touch real silk, cotton and velvet, the feel of nonsynthetic fabrics blew me away. I know it's important how clothing looks, but it's equally important how it feels on your skin.
Colleen Atwood
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