Quotes of: Century Keyword

I'm going to start these art museums that are basically converted homes, and I have one for modern art, and I have one for 19th century European art, and one for French impressionism. I've got Japanese.

Larry Ellison

That piece has been choreographed so badly so many times. I'm loathe to do it but I may eventually because it is one of the seminal art works of the twentieth century.

Mark Morris

I understood that centuries of chains and lashes will not kill the spirit of man nor the sense of truth within him.

Anthem

Mr. Franz, I think careers are a 20th century invention and I don't want one.

Into the Wild

Morality is temporary, wisdom is permanent.

Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century

Politics is the Art of Controlling Your Enviroment.

Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century

A century is about events. A decade is about people.

The Next Decade: What the World Will Look Like

That casual glance was the beginning of a cataclysm of love that had still not ended half a century later.

Liefde in tijden van cholera

You'll get fired if anyone finds out about us!" "So many rules in this century," Vane muttered.

My Merlin Awakening

I know always that I am an outsider; a stranger in this century and among those who are still men.

The Outsider

the military system of a nation is not an independent section of the social system but an aspect of its totality.

Reappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century

All modern U.S. presidents are perforce politicians, prisoners of their past pronouncements, their party, their constituency, and their colleagues.

Reappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century

Centuries of perfectly-pitched heartbreak resound through Les' microphone as Stella and I embrace in a slow dance.

Vampire Syndrome

Earlier 18th-century literary language was not supple enough to connect the life of the imagination to that of the street.

Wanderlust: A History of Walking

The idea of innovation is the idea of progress stripped of the aspirations of the Enlightenment, scrubbed clean of the horrors of the twentieth century, and relieved of its critics.

Jill Lepore

Universal literacy was a 20th-century goal. Before then, reading and writing were skills largely confined to a small, highly educated class of professional people.

Hugh Mackay

The data, however, do indicate that Christians who see Jews through a 17th-century lens, believing that most are thoroughly religious, are thoroughly wrong.

Marvin Olasky

I was shy. Bookish. The kind of 13-year-old girl who, instead of having a boyfriend, would have a crush on a dead, 19th-century author!

Natalie Merchant

The late 20th century sea level rise rate lacks any sign of acceleration. Satellite altimetry indicates virtually no changes in the last decade.

Nils-Axel Morner

Every technological advance we've made in the 21st century and throughout the 20th has come from the United States of America.

Phil Gramm

The cemetery of the victims of human cruelty in our century is extended to include yet another vast cemetery, that of the unborn.

Pope John Paul II