Quotes of: Century Keyword

I'm a feminist, a 21st-century feminist - which means choice and freedom. One has the right to be both glamorous and ethically structured.

Arielle Dombasle

But with the steady disintegration of the family in modern society over the last century, the role of the school in bridging the gap has become vital!

Stephen Covey

I've always thought of science fiction as being, at some level, a 19th-century business.

Robert Reed

You don't have to be Jewish to understand the history of Europe in the 20th century, but it helps.

Tony Judt

Modernism, rebelling against the ornament of the 19th century, limited the vocabulary of the designer. Modernism emphasized straight lines, eliminating the expressive S curve. This made it harder to communicate emotions through design.

Eva Zeisel

One of the great defects of English books printed in the last century is the want of an index.

Lafcadio Hearn

In the 19th century the anatomy of the eye was known in great detail and the sophisticated mechanisms it employs to deliver an accurate picture of the outside world astounded everyone who was familiar with them.

Michael Behe

I used to have a great love for Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy, the big boys of the last century.

Norman MacCaig

For me, Fitzgerald was one of the great American writers of the last century; a wordsmith, a storyteller, a perfectionist.

Robert Littell

The good is, like nature, an immense landscape in which man advances through centuries of exploration.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

I showed that privacy was an implicit right in Jewish law, probably going back to the second or third century, when it was elaborated on in a legal way.

Norman Lamm

At the rate we're going, the 21st century looks pretty clear. It's going to be pretty violent.

Edward James Olmos

The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching has been in existence for most of this century.

C. Everett Koop

A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.

Charles de Montesquieu

Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years.

Henry David Thoreau

The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.

Henry Ward Beecher

Witches were burned and killed in Scotland and England for centuries before what happened in Salem.

Janet Montgomery

Who owns the NY Post? 20th Century Fox. Talk about vertical integration.

Joe Pantoliano

Common folk didn't have last names in the 8th and 9th centuries.

Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

Instead of sailing off into the sunset, he hopes to sail into the next century.

Dave Anderson

That's really the challenge of this century, to develop spokespeople.

Jim Fowler