Modern Siren Quotes

#1. the seedy-garish world of back-street London... restless rootless... beautiful, amoral, modern siren of doom in a jungle of dance halls, caffs and pubs.

Mark McShane

#2. To give you an idea how bad the American economy is, Mexico is now calling for a fence along the border. Stay on your side!

Jay Leno

#3. Im not someone whos ever said anything definitive about his work. In my life also I have very little fixed form. I can change overnight.

Willem De Kooning

#4. If a woman does need a hero, she needs him today, not tomorrow.

Robert Jordan

#5. We do not get ice-cream every where, and so, when we do, we are apt to dissipate to excess. We never cared any thing about ice-cream at home, but we look upon it with a sort of idolatry now that it is so scarce in these red-hot climates of the East.

Mark Twain

#6. Reason is and ought to be, as Hume said, the slave of the passions.

Edward Abbey

#7. Adjustment, that synonym for conformity that comes more easily to the modern tongue, is the theme of our swan song, the piper's tune to which we dance on the brink of the abyss, the siren's melody that destroys our senses and paralyzes our wills.

Robert M. Lindner