E-traffickers are just a modern way of saying drug dealers.

Karen Tandy

It's the modern-day David and Goliath.

Robert Vaughn

Message to the world that all people should have access to basic education, to modern technology and the tools to combat infectious diseases.

Lael Brainard

Going into business for yourself, becoming an entrepreneur, is the modern-day equivalent of pioneering on the old frontier.

Paula Nelson

The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less.

Vaclav Havel

Radio was so important to everybody back then; there was no TV. Columbia Square was the epitome of radio. Everything was modern. It was beautiful.

Art Linkletter

We want to bring something very modern and original. It definitely has a different flavor than the rest of Provo.

Aaron Grimmer

To my mind, a family house felt lived-in, not brand-new, with a patina of age and history that a modern house never had. To me, a family house had a second floor and a banister.

Gale Anne Hurd

When a presidency has been turned around, particularly the modern presidency, there's often an outside element.

Fred Greenstein

He is one of the key quilters in the modern world, and definitely the top person in America.

Bruce Pepich

Certainly, the mid-century modern, pop stuff is very hot right now.

Lawrence Bilotti

In just over 100 years, the 'Southern Continent' has sprouted into a modern country.

Cai Wu

One of the extra benefits of modern tennis is people learn more quickly ... the newer rackets are far more forgiving.

Stuart Miller

We feel that the genre of African dance — it's not unlike the genre of French classical dance or modern dance — it's simply a genre. It's not a novelty. It's become one of the standard art forms of dance.

Vince Paul

I think if modern medicine could put in a bottle all the positive benefits of exercise, they'd consider it a miracle drug.

Aaron Marks

It's hard enough with the conveniences of modern life, ... But to be here, with no electricity, no water, not even a floor, I don't understand how she can take care of him.

Linda Norris

There is but one way of converting these poor infidels and reclaiming them from barbarity, and that is charitably to intermarry with them, according to the modern policy of the Most Christian King in Canada and Louisiana.

William Byrd

Has no confidence (in Mexico) and doesn't treat it like a modern democracy.

Fabian Nunez

They ... represent the probable immediate ancestors of anatomically modern humans. Their anatomy and antiquity constitute strong evidence of modern-human emergence in Africa.

Tim White

The Working Life: The Promise and Betrayal of Modern Work.

Joanne Ciulla

We continue to invest in our global helium business, and this new facility will enable us to serve our customers more efficiently due to its central location, modern equipment and streamlined production processes.

Jane Hoffman

That's the thing about these songs, they're not about hot licks. They're about the stories. It was tempting to do these songs very modern. But I kept them very minimal.

Hank Harris

Take [this art form] out of the barbershop and bring it to more modern times.

Toxic Audio

In Western terms, it's like knowing only modern art and then stumbling on a Michelangelo or a Leonardo.

William Saturno

We created knowledge conversion software that converts local names of diseases and plants into modern names.

V. K. Gupta

The modern grocer needs to stop blaming Wal-Mart and focus on improving the shopping experience.

Candace Corlett

Modern technology, it's going to cost you money, but those who aren't using it, it's costing them a lot more.

Randall Crozier

Employers are going to have to be more canny. People who might traditionally have gone to a red-brick may now just as easily go to a more modern university because the course is more interesting. So employers are going to have to head-hunt more on campus.

Tom Crawford

I think that this movie will become a modern day classic on its own merits and certainly the multi-disc packaging is a bonus.

Peter Reynolds

That's pretty much been it. They weren't able to reconstruct any complete skeletons. But the bone, if you didn't know it was fossilized, it looked like modern bone.

Danny Walker

We try to steer clear of anything too modern or aggressive. We do not design the clothes with a specific age group in mind. They easily can be worn by guys in their 20s or their 60s.

Luis Toro

It's a fresh, masculine and modern fragrance.

Scott Beattie

Maybe young people will more likely to listen to modern artists than a doctor or a nurse.

Patsy Harrington

The games were centered at Francis Field, which had the first concrete stadium in the U.S. and Francis Gymnasium, the most modern gym in the world at the time.

Mary Hendron

Where I was still told to my face that modern art can only be loved...by Jews.

Peggy Guggenheim

ACADEMY, n. [from ACADEME] A modern school where football is taught.

Ambrose Bierce

We wanted an old feeling with a modern twist.

Rick Woods

I don't think people want chains. People want modern conveniences, but they don't want chains.

Dean Miller

The first and last essential of an efficient soldier is character; without it he will not long endure the perils of modern war.

Lord Moran

The expressiveness of this organ is beyond belief, ... There's a vocal quality to the sound that you don't hear in modern instruments.

Hans Davidsson

We're looking for something more posh and hip. It's going to be very modern with a lot of lighting.

Ron Masters

Mankind has survived all catastrophes. It will also survive modern medicine.

Gerhard Kocher

It's nice for the students to have something modern to work with.

Carol Lucas

I was wondering why more hadn't been done with him in modern culture. I had just not seen anything about him and I wondered why.

Raphael Cristy

In America, art has always been suspect and accused of being effete. We are growing beyond that as a culture, just as San Francisco is growing beyond its fear of modern architecture.

Jim Chappell

He was a pioneer as far as the materials (he used) and the modern design.

Courtney Newman

PHOENIX, n. The classical prototype of the modern 'small hot bird.'

Ambrose Bierce

If you can shoot one of these weapons well, then you can shoot a modern one very well. It requires a lot more mental discipline to shoot these and hit because the modern weapons are so much more sophisticated.

Larry Babits

We're very excited. It will make a big difference to have a new modern building here at our front door.

Tanya Vanasse

Modern man does not love, but seeks refuge in love; does not hope, but seeks refuge in hope; does not believe but seeks refuge in dogma.

Nicolas Gomez Davila

I like to think of it as keeping the Old World charm but updating it with modern conveniences.

Billy Rose

The vision and goal is to ensure our airports are modern, efficient, passenger-friendly and secure.

Marsha Wienert

It's got modern components but it's still a box. It's like a box going through the air.

Stephen Kauppi

We need to cherish the Hotel Colorado for what it was built for. A historical hotel with some of the modern conveniences, yet holding onto its grandness.

Larry Macdonald

The modern composer builds upon the foundation of truth.

Claudio Monteverdi

We had to take a break and assess what was important, and that's creating music that fills what we see as a current void for classic rock with a modern edge.

Keith Nelson

Every time I win a tournament I have to think that there is something wrong with modern chess.

Viktor Korchnoi

He is kind of a missionary of modern dance.

Jory Hancock

The 2007 tour will be a modern tale of two cities ... and plans to cement the friendship between our two great capitals.

Christian Prudhomme

A modern, harmonic and lively architecture is the visible sign of an authentic democracy.

Walter Gropius

Being a firefighter is as close as you can get to being a modern-day soldier in your home country.

Tom Dawson

Modern Carpet Designs may provide endless entertainment for your guests.

William Heath Robinson

As a swimmer and as a team you'd rather go to where the fastest pool is and if you have something modern, well you'd rather go there.

Jim Engler

We have two regional brands. You wouldn't think our ads would become part of modern culture.

Andrew Puzder

In 1996, Congress gave us a very difficult task, which is to bring these rules up to date in the modern media marketplace.

Michael Powell

The old rag doll brings back a bit of tradition and that's nice to think in this modern, professional era.

Nigel Davies

The critical method which denies literary modernity would appear -- and even, in certain respects, would be -- the most modern of critical movements.

Paul De Man

Chicago is the product of modern capitalism, and, like other great commercial centers, is unfit for human habitation.

Eugene Debs

By tearing down more and more of the historic fabric of Palm Springs, you are eliminating those historic modern elements that bring tourists to the city.

Peter Moruzzi

They will look at levels of metals and other fats and chemicals — this should serve as a good baseline to compare levels in modern blubber.

George Craig

I wanted a very modern spa feel in here. I just love to go into a bathroom that's like a spa.

Linda Connolly

He's made a tremendous amount of difference in a bad way. He truly wants to dial the clock back to the 1920s, before we saw the modern federal state evolve.

Eric Parfrey

It will remove a huge blockage to the development of a modern day telecommunications infrastructure in this country.

Ernie Newman

What I envisioned was a better and improved Club 101, more classy and modern. It's good to have Club 101 back and see people having nostalgic fun. Clearly, many missed the old club.

Ernest Gluck

The argument of the broken window pane is the most valuable argument in modern politics.

Emmeline Pankhurst

To the old saying that man built the house but woman made of it a ''home'' might be added the modern supplement that woman accepted cooking as a chore but man has made of it a recreation.

Emily Post

The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.

Edward Abbey

The reason for the sadness of this modern age and the men who live in it is that it looks for the truth in everything and finds it.

Edmond And Jules De Goncourt

The bike challenge is sort of a modern day Lewis and Clark. And I get to spend a few more months with my buds from college.

Eddie Higgins

I think that more and more new buyers are looking at modern and contemporary works first.

Ed Dolman

Modern man drives a mortgaged car over a bond-financed highway on credit-card gas.

Earl Wilson