Quotes of: Century Keyword

A quarter century of running a restaurant - that's a long time to do one thing.

Charlie Trotter

I think the first decade of this century is going to be remembered as a time of extremism.

David Eagleman

Once upon a time, novelists of the 19th century, such as Charles Dickens, published in serial form.

Margaret Atwood

The fact that I spend a lot of time in the 18th century doesn't mean I'm not concerned with the 21st.

Robert Darnton

Since the 18th century, many Western intellectuals have predicted religion's imminent demise.

Jonathan Sacks

When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don't just turn it off one day.

Chinua Achebe

I think popular music in this country is one of the few things in the twentieth century that have made giant strides in reverse.

Bing Crosby

I'm very happy in my 18th century worker's cottage in Kent and playing my music for the dog-walkers paused outside.

Christian McKay

Jazz is really 20th-century fusion music. You take West African harmony and rhythm, mix with European harmony, and boom!

Christian Scott

Kids coming back from Iraq and Afghanistan deserve to come back to 21st century medical care.

Anthony Principi

I think that in the 21st century, medical biology will advance at a more rapid pace than before.

Shinya Yamanaka

Winter makes a bridge between one year and another and, in this case, one century and the next.

Andy Goldsworthy

We need to invest in people's lives so that they can do the jobs of the 21st century.

Ann McLane Kuster

We need to reaffirm that politics is not merely compatible with economic progress and development in the 21st century, but essential to it.

David Blunkett

A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead.

Leo Rosten

The 1950s is a key decade in the 20th Century. Each year has a distinctive flavour.

Sara Sheridan

The rights of women are to the 21st century what civil rights were to the 20th.

Tina Brown

Balzac loved courtesans. They were independent women, and in the 19th century, that was a breed that was just evolving.

Twyla Tharp

The merits and services of Christianity have been industriously extolled by its hired advocates. Every Sunday its praises are sounded from myriads of pulpits. It enjoys the prestige of an ancient establishment and the comprehensive support of the Sta...

Crimes of Christianity

Today, when so much seems to conspire to reduce life and feeling to the most deprived and demeaning bottom line, it is more important than ever that we receive that extra dimension of dignity or delight and the elevated sense of self that the art of ...

On Architecture: Collected Reflections on a Century of Change

In the beginning of the eighteenth century, made the first serious attempt to apply the doctrine [ ] to the living world. In the latter part of it, , , and took up the work more vigorously and with better qualifications. The question of special creat...

The Advance of Science in the Last Half-Century