Modern Miracle Quotes

#1. In this age of one-night stands, virtual relationships and text sex, a wedding was a modern miracle.

Eleanor Prescott

#2. The miracle of modern science. The LEP pours millions into your department, Foaly, and all you can do is send Mud Boys to the toilet.

Eoin Colfer

#3. It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom. Without this it goes to wrack and ruin without fail.

Albert Einstein

#4. The worst thing about the miracle of modern communications is the Pavlovian pressure it places upon everyone to communicate whenever a bell rings.

Russell Baker

#5. The true miracle of modern medicine is diabolical. It consists in making not only individuals but whole populations survive on inhumanly low levels of personal health.

Ivan Illich

#6. The artist is always a servant, and is perpetually trying to pay for the gift that has been given to him as if by miracle. Modern man, however, does not want to make any sacrifice, even though true affirmation of self can only be expressed in sacrifice.

Andrei Tarkovsky

#7. Every man's island, Jean Louise, every man's watchman, is his conscience. There is no such thing as a collective conscious.

Harper Lee

#8. Modern surgery has been like a miracle to those who thought the pain was going to go on forever.

Maeve Binchy

#9. It took six years - about four and half more than Musk had once planned - and five hundred people to make this miracle of modern science and business happen.

Ashlee Vance

#10. Auntie Anne's is a modern-day business miracle that never should have happened.

Anne F. Beiler

#11. If you knew my life and understood where I came from, you would agree that Auntie Anne's, Inc. is a modern day business miracle.

Anne F. Beiler

#12. I live by the sea in Australia and the weather of course is glorious all year round.

Anna Torv

#13. Coffee has ... expand[ed] humanity's working-day from twelve to a potential twenty-four hours. The tempo, the complexity, the tension of modern life, call for something that can perform the miracle of stimulating brain activity, without evil, habit-forming after-effects.

Margaret Meagher

#14. It is almost a miracle that modern teaching methods have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for what this delicate little plant needs more than anything, besides stimulation, is freedom.

Albert Einstein

#15. The tyrant had said our backgrounds were similar, and in some ways they were.

Ann Leckie

#16. An old man with a staff. He had a tall pointed blue hat, a long grey cloak, a silver scarf over which his long white beard hung down

J.R.R. Tolkien

#17. I did it, and it's all right. Even the worst experiences were right in their time, because otherwise, it wouldn't have come to this point. That was your road, and you had to walk it.

Michael "Bommi" Baumann

#18. I make big shots everywhere. I get accustomed to it. I'm not afraid to be the goat. I don't worry about what you (reporters) say about me in the papers. In fact, I like it. It tickles me.

Sam Cassell

#19. Modern medicine has created more co-dependents even than co-pays. We've learned to hold out for a magic bullet such as a new miracle drug, breakthrough surgical procedure or new organ transplant. What rubbish.

Andrew Saul

#20. It is nothing short of a miracle that modern methods of teaching have not yet entirely strangled that sacred spirit of curiosity and inquiry, for this delicate plant needs freedom no less than stimulation.

Albert Einstein

#21. Through the miracles of modern medicine George Burns still chases pretty girls, and through the miracle of modern psychiatry he intends to find out why!

Frank Welker

#22. Nobody ever warned me about mirrors, so for many years I was fond of them, and believed them to be trustworthy ...

Helen Oyeyemi