Quotes of: Century Keyword

The marriage of reason and nightmare that dominated the 20th century has given birth to an ever more ambiguous world. Across the communications landscape move the spectres of sinister technologies and the dreams that money can buy. Thermo-nuclear wea...

J.G. Ballard

We are an age without leaders. We stopped having leaders at the end of the 20th century.

Oriana Fallaci

The age of recalcitrance is over. The best solution is no longer just to regurgitate a 19th-century design.

Thom Mayne

Film in the 20th century, it's the American art form, like jazz.

Martin Scorsese

Christian art today should be twentieth-century art.

Art & the Bible

For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.

H. L. Mencken

The old newspaper adage, 'If it bleeds, it leads,' is as true today as it was a century ago.

Peter Diamandis

For centuries, Cuba's greatest resource has been its people.

Pico Iyer

Detroit's industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching.

P. J. O'Rourke

Our names were made for us in another century.

Richard Brautigan

China has lunged into the 21st century, while India is still lurching toward it.

Steven Rattner

Jazz is a very accurate, curiously accurate accompaniment to 20th century America.

Ken Burns

I read mostly fiction, a lot of 19th-century novels.

Ken Follett

The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization.

Mikhail Gorbachev

Collage is the twentieth century's greatest innovation

Robert Motherwell

When it comes to rapacious 19th century capitalism, my family's hands are clean.

Calvin Trillin

Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family.

Gertrude Stein

The Government's mission is to build a strong and fair Australia capable of meeting the new challenges of the 21st century.

Kevin Rudd

Humor was not important only for me, humor was important for this nation for centuries, to survive, you know.

Milos Forman

'Death of a Salesman' is a brilliant taxonomy of the spiritual atrophy of mid-twentieth-century white America.

John Lahr

It took capitalism half a century to come back from the Great Depression.

Ben Shapiro