Modern World

Modern World or The Modern World may refer to:

  • Modernity, a popular academic term.
  • The modern era, the age in which people today now live.
  • Modern World, a song by Wolf Parade from their 2005 album Apologies to the Queen Mary

Famous quotes containing the words modern and/or world:

    “Though collecting quotations could be considered as merely an ironic mimetism—victimless collecting, as it were ... in a world that is well on its way to becoming one vast quarry, the collector becomes someone engaged in a pious work of salvage. The course of modern history having already sapped the traditions and shattered the living wholes in which precious objects once found their place, the collector may now in good conscience go about excavating the choicer, more emblematic fragments.”
    —Susan Sontag (b. 1933)

    “Some smart man once said that on the most exalted throne in the world we are seated on nothing but our own arse.”
    —Wendell Mayes, U.S. screenwriter. Otto Preminger. CINCPAC II (Henry Fonda)