Expertise is the mantra of modern medicine.

- Atul Gawande

If night raids and detentions are an unavoidable part of modern counterinsurgency warfare, then so is the resentment they breed.

- Anand Gopal

Most modern comedy is crap.

- Adrian Edmondson

Masculine ideals have become very confused in the modern world.

- Andrew Dominik

I don't think my looks are modern. I always imagined I'd end up doing Chekhov, Ibsen and Shakespeare all my life and never play a contemporary character.

- Alex Kingston

Modern people are only willing to believe in their computers, while I believe in myself.

- Alain Robert

First off, I have to mention what is undoubtedly the greatest phenomenon of the modern era: All You Can Eat Buffets.

- Alexei Sayle

We, in Prince Edward Island, are fully familiar with this modern phenomenon.

- Alex Campbell

Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.

- Agnes de Mille

IQ in general has improved since tests first began. Psychologists think that this is because modern life becomes ever more complicated.

- A. N. Wilson

The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible.

- Alan Watts

Only the pun remains. The pun, beloved of Shakespeare, children and tabloid headline-writers, is normally eschewed in the modern, sophisticated circles in which I move.

- Arthur Smith

I'm not good at the modern world.

- Anthony Horowitz

Modern cars I don't like so much.

- Amber Heard

A modern revolutionary group heads for the television station.

- Abbie Hoffman

Originalism says that when you consult the text, you give it the meaning it had when it was adopted, not some later modern meaning.

- Antonin Scalia

I think the idea of mixing luxury and mass-market fashion is very modern, very now - no one wears head-to-toe designer anymore.

- Alexander McQueen

Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

- Aldous Huxley

Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

- Aldous Huxley

All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State.

- Albert Camus