Famous quotes containing the words language and/or modern:
“Consensus is usually made possible by vague language and shallow commitments.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“The modern woman is the curse of the universe. A disaster, that’s what. She thinks that before her arrival on the scene no woman ever did anything worthwhile before, no woman was ever liberated until her time, no woman really ever amounted to anything.”
—Adela Rogers St. Johns (1894–1988)