Modern Siren Quotes

Ms. Wrack's mother, Mrs. Wrack, had been a mermaid: a proper one who lived on a rock and combed her hair and sang. But sailors had never been lured to their doom by her, partly because she looked like the back of a bus and partly because modern ships are so high out of the water that they never even saw her ~ Eva Ibbotson

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

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

If I shake hands with anti-Me it will be the end of me. ~ Siren Waroe

As an artist, motive means opportunity ~ Siren Waroe

Nobody catches you if you fall. ~ Siren Waroe

Each artwork requires its own design ~ Siren Waroe

Fred would walk across broken glass for Siren. ~ C.S. Woolley

I had never seen a more flawless specimen than this wild looking siren. ~ Meredith T. Taylor

In his mind he saw Ligeia standing naked on the top of the point, breasts jutting out in the dark like beacons of lust. A human lighthouse of doom. ~ John Everson, Siren

My brow still burns from the kiss of the queen; I have dreamed in the grotto where the siren swims . . . ~ Gerard De Nerval

It's not like I'm the first siren to ever make it big… Play 'Bohemian Rhapsody' on a road trip some time and tell me everyone in the car doesn't stop what they are doing to sing. ~ Thomm Quackenbush

I know the odds are against us. I know she's a siren. I know she's eaten people. I know she's five thousand years older than me. But I really like her. ~ Simon Rich

I'm really interested in modern history, but to fulfill a History degree at Brown you have to do modern and pre-modern. ~ Emma Watson

By now, with all our modern technology, there should be no poverty left on earth. ~ E.A. Bucchianeri

Are modern children going to revolt against being modern, and if so, what form will reaction of modern parents take? ~ E.M. Delafield

Stay away from the underground lake I implore,
The Siren will see you are heard of no more. ~ E.A. Bucchianeri

Love can be such a mysterious muse and seductress ... spinning her magical web of stardust and emotional euphoria.
True love sang her siren song and we wrapped that song around us like the sweetest melody. ~ Jaeda DeWalt

It's modern day. It is modern day. Some of the cars are older but it is absolutely modern day. There are modern cars in it, modern people, modern clothes, modern talk. We wrote 'Valentine' to sort of pay tribute to all the old slasher movies that we grew up with and I think that we did that. ~ Todd Farmer

You are remarkably modern, Mabel. A little too modern, perhaps. Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern. One is apt to grow old-fashioned quite suddenly. ~ Oscar Wilde

Kitsch is all that the modern world makes that's not modern, which is most of it. ~ Mike Curran

Mystique is rare now, isn't it? There aren't that many enigmas in this modern world. ~ Benedict Cumberbatch

Galileo - the father of modern physics - indeed of modern science. ~ Albert Einstein

We are the modern day gladiators. ~ Tito Ortiz

We must also recognize the new realities of modern warfare and the modern landscape of a battlefield. ~ Susan Davis

Adrift and unmoored, she had tried again and again to throw him a rope to save him from the raging waters. And now he no longer felt like a drowning man at sea. Nora ... the siren and the goddess, the ship and the wine-dark sea. She would either save him or end him. ~ Tiffany Reisz

What this brings out is that modern politics cannot be a matter of genuine moral consensus. And it is not. Modern politics is civil war carried on by other means, ~ Alasdair MacIntyre

Every man needs his Siren
To check his courage and strength
When he hears her song
In his travels through the unknown. ~ Dejan Stojanovic

We need to evolve and articulate a global ethics for a global civilization that integrates and evolves the passionate truths of every great system of knowledge - pre-modern, modern, and post-modern. ~ Marc Gafni

Modern man is battered by the fundamental forces of his own psyche. ~ Carl Jung

The modern nose, like the modern eye, has developed a sort of microscopic, intercellular intensity which makes our human contactspainful and revolting. ~ Marshall McLuhan

I would never kiss you!" The siren's screech brought me back to the Everneath, and I drew away from Cole.
He had a devilish grin on his face, and he turned toward the siren. "I know. But the real Nik would - if it was to save my life." He looked back at me. "Hey, Nik. ~ Brodi Ashton

In modern America, food is abundant everywhere except aboard commercial airplanes. ~ Dave Barry

Maggie waved a gnarled finger in my direction. "Mention one word," she said, voice sharp but grey eyes twinkling with merriment, "and I'll curse your sex life for the next year." I snorted. "Curse away. It can't get any worse." She shook her head. "How can a siren have such a pathetic love life?" "Because I'm a siren who can't actually sing, remember? ~ Keri Arthur

I do think that the modern India does belong to writers who are living in India. ~ Kiran Desai

You need to look at inequality as a typical condition of modern society. ~ Rem Koolhaas

All Modern Men are descended from a Wormlike creature but it shows more on some people. ~ Will Cuppy

Unlike modern man, who dreams of the world he will make, pre-modern man dreamed of the world he left. ~ Robert Heilbroner

The stability of modern governments above the ancient, and the accuracy of modern philosophy, have improved, and probably will still improve, by similar gradations. ~ David Hume

Modern technique has made it possible for leisure, within limits, to be not the prerogative of small privileged classes, but a right evenly distributed throughout the community. The morality of work is the morality of slaves, and the modern world has no need of slavery. ~ Bertrand Russell

Many modern novels have a beginning, a muddle and an end. ~ Philip Larkin

Modern warfare is an intricate business about which no one knows everything and few know very much. ~ Frank Knox

You'd be surprised how many people in the modern age no longer fear zombies as much as teletubies. ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon

In its most limited sense, modern, art would seem to concern itself only with the technical innovations of the period. ~ Edward Hopper

The classical man's worst fear was inglorious death; the modern man's worst fear is just death ~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The new Ann Taylor is for modern women who want to take on the world in style. ~ Demi Moore

A policy of expansionism and conquest has no future in the modern world. ~ Vladimir Putin

We get to the point then with modern science where you could almost say that modern science is the art of describing those systems so crude in their structure that they are not subject to temporal variables. ~ Terence McKenna

The uselessness and expensiveness of modern women multiply bachelors. ~ Samuel Richardson

Modern societies march towards morality in proportion as they leave religion behind. ~ Paul Bert

China is the greatest mystifying and stupefying fact in the modern world. ~ Lin Yutang

This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art. ~ Salvador Dali

We have seen this complete right wing takeover of modern liberalism, and it is an ugly spectacle to behold. ~ Kevin Rudd

The 'drugs or surgery only approach that modern medicine uses to treat today's diseases is archaic. ~ Julian Whitaker

Only the camera seems to be really capable of describing modern life. ~ Alexander Rodchenko

Whatever the flows of our modern times are the idea is that you can create something new out of nothing. ~ Pascal Bruckner

Depression: the healthy suspicion that modern life has no meaning and that modern society is absurd and alienating. ~ Neel Burton

To talk intelligibly about modern physics, we have to admit the possibility of uncaused events. ~ Taner Edis

People always knock what's new but I love the modern Internet, where cleverness is currency. Social media is a cleverness meritocracy. We're living in it. ~ Alexei Maxim Russell

Modern man is drinking and drugging himself out of awareness, or he spends his time shopping, which is the same thing. ~ Ernest Becker

The Second Amendment has no place in modern society. ~ Alan Dershowitz

I've always had a massive fascination with the modern day cowboys. Modern day outlaws or going against the system, and that's always been very intriguing to me. ~ Theo Rossi

This modern interpretation of Machiavelli's landmark work is perhaps more useful for the modern reader than the original text. His dense ideas have been boiled down to their essence and presented in language that can be easily grasped by the modern mind. ~ Brandon Musk

Our federal Constitution embodies the idea of modern India: it defines not only India but also modernity. ~ Pranab Mukherjee

Without the blues, modern music would be nothing like it is now - not remotely. ~ Henry Rollins

Admiration takes on a whole new level when you appreciate just how complex it is to run a modern business. ~ Ursula Burns

As an artist and a songwriter myself, I like to feel connected to modern culture and watch how sounds change. ~ John Feldmann

Modern science kills God and takes his place on the vacant throne. Science is the sole legitimate arbiter of all relavent truth. ~ Vaclav Havel

One could almost phrase the motto of our modern civilization thus: Science is my shepherd; I shall not want. ~ Harry Emerson Fosdick

Aristocrats need not be rich, but they must be free, and in the modern world freedom grows rarer the more we prate about it. ~ Robertson Davies

This is the greatest and most fraught romance of modern society, the marriage between the IT staff and those who depend on them. ~ Marilyn Johnson

The modern man is necessarily a seeker of God, maybe a Man of Christ. ~ Joseph Goebbels

A third ideal that has made its way in the modern world is reliance on reason, especially reason disciplined and enriched by modern science. An eternal basis of human intercommunication is reason. ~ Emily Greene Balch

I went to Thailand and built a village for 27 rescued children and this is where my passion to help prevent modern day slavery came from. ~ David Batstone

All my life I have been trained by that siren. Before I could walk I knew the siren meant death. It meant somehow the fences had been breached and the Unconsecrated were shuffling among us. It meant grab weapons, move to the platforms and pull up the ladders - even if it necessitated leaving the living behind.
Growing up, my mother used to tell me about how in the beginning, when her own great-great-great-grandmother was a child, that siren would wail almost constantly as the village was bombarded with the Unconsecrated. But then the fences has been fortified, the Guardians had formed and time had passed with the Unconsecrated dwindling to the point that I couldn't remember a time in the past few years when that siren had wailed and it had not been a drill. I know that in my life there have been breaches but I also know that I am very good at blocking out the memories that serve me no purpose. I can fear the Unconsecrated well enough without them. ~ Carrie Ryan

Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attibutable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century. ~ Bertrand Russell

I respect those who follow religious routes only if they seem to me to be morally proper and in accord with the modern world. ~ Pete Townshend

I don't know much about modern art, but I guess I am modern art. ~ Gloria Trevi

Modern science was largely conceived of as an answer to the servant problem and ... it is generally practiced by those who lack a flair for conversation. ~ Fran Lebowitz

It has been claimed at times that our modern age of technology facilitates dictatorship. ~ Henry A. Wallace

Modern science is predicated on 'truths' verified through accurate observation and measurements of physical world phenomena. ~ Bruce Lipton

I much prefer the modern world. ~ Keith Henson

There's an interesting mix to 'Robin Hood' because it's kind of modern but medieval. There is a blend of adventure with a very modern feel. ~ Joanne Froggatt

Without the necessary humility to worship, I subconsciously desired to be worshiped, not in a crazy Napoleanic manner, but like a modern-day celebrity. ~ Tarek Saab

In a modern society people can live without hope only when kept dazed and out of breath by incessant hustling. ~ Eric Hoffer

Cablegate is 3,000 volumes of material. It is the greatest intellectual treasure to have entered into the public record in modern times. ~ Julian Assange

Flexibility has become a modern day value that everyone wants. But flexibility comes with a cost. ~ Maynard Webb

More than half of modern culture depends upon what one shouldn't read. ~ Oscar Wilde

Every modern war has had its roots in exploitation. ~ Helen Keller

Modern science knows much about such conflicts. We call the mental state that engenders it "ambivalence": a collision between thought and feeling. ~ David Seabury

I suppose the thing that really interests me is what mankind did with the big, big, big discoveries that have created our modern age. ~ Stephen Fry

If you don't trust the roots of the modern music in Africa, then there's hope for that music at all. ~ Angelique Kidjo

Film, television and to a certain extent, theater are modern day libraries. ~ David Strathairn

The modern day soup line is a check in the mail. ~ David I. Rozenberg

All of the great prophets of modern times have come from the desert: Mohammed, Jesus and myself. ~ Muammar Al-Gaddafi

A modern mathematical proof is not very different from a modern machine, or a modern test setup: the simple fundamental principles are hidden and almost invisible under a mass of technical details. ~ Hermann Weyl

Make it new is the message not just of modern art but of modern consumerism, of which modern art is largely a mirror image. ~ Christopher Lasch

The Jews are the master robbers of the modern age. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte

Only communist regimes have churned out more jargon than modern business. ~ Corinne Maier

As ever with modern Britain, we are let down by a vast, over-manned, over-funded, hidebound, obstructive, box-ticking and incompetent bureaucracy. ~ Frederick Forsyth