Quotes of: Century Keyword

Each of us have things and thoughts and descriptions of an amazing universe in our possession that kings in the 17th Century would have gone to war to possess.

Kary Mullis

If we look at music history closely, it is not difficult to isolate certain elements of great potency which were to nourish the art of music for decades, if not centuries.

George Crumb

It is not possible to overstate the influence of Paul Cezanne on twentieth-century art. He's the modern Giotto, someone who shattered one kind of picture-making and invented a new one that the world followed.

Jerry Saltz

What Galileo and Newton were to the seventeenth century, Darwin was to the nineteenth.

A History of Western Philosophy

Everyone is drinking. She can feel them out there drinking, turning into beasts.

Little Century

To congratulate oneself on one's warm commitment to the environment, or to peace, or to the oppressed, and think no more is a profound moral fault.

Reflections on a Ravaged Century

I want to steal 100 years. If I get caught, it’ll be the trial of the century.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

The instruments, glassware, and chemical reagents necessary for my project were the same as my 19th-century predecessors had.

Rita Levi-Montalcini

I find that in the 21st century, there's not a lot of compassion for what other people are going through or the walk that they have to walk.

Tori Amos

Right up to the middle of this century all perceptions of the world around us were delivered via the bookshelf or the paper route.

Theodore Bikel

Now everyone leaking and tweeting and posting on everyone else is the acknowledged way to get ahead in the 21st century.

Tina Brown

The House of Representatives eliminated the filibuster way back in the 19th century, and somehow it managed to survive.

Timothy Noah

As is known worldwide, Japan has tried to catch up with the western countries since the beginning of this century by importing science from them.

Kenichi Fukui

We don't realize how hard it was to drive anywhere outside the major cities less than a century ago.

Ken Jennings

For a century after the reign of Frederick, Prussia remained the most prominent Germanic state in Europe.

Kelly Miller

As a historical legacy, the Kashmir conflict has been an outstanding issue for more than half a century.

Li Peng

The customs are as formalised as an eighteenth-century minuet, and a child at the race's knee learns the moves and twirls by osmosis and observation.

Maya Angelou

Thinking begins only when we have come to know that reason, glorified for centuries, is the stiff-necked adversary of thought.

Martin Heidegger

If there was a little shine of gold on the moon, the mankind would have been to the moon even in the 19th century!

Mehmet Murat ildan

You go back to the 17th century, the commercial and industrial centers of the world were China and India.

Noam Chomsky

When I'm dead and gone, people will know that the twenty-first century was started by Alexander McQueen.

Alexander McQueen