I won't mention the word tired. This is the 20th century and I can go around a little faster.
The wind from the Kingdom of Heaven has blown all over the world, and shall blow for centuries yet.
The nineteenth century was completely lacking in logic, it had cosmic terms and hopes, and aspirations, and discoveries, and ideals but it had no logic.
It is a violation which has obsessed the tyrants of the twentieth century. They do not want simply to kill their opponents, but to liquidate them, to deny that they have ever existed.
The picture surface recedes just as much in the 20th century as it did in the 15th. The techniques of making pictures have hardly changed.
Once in a century a man may be ruined or made insufferable by praise. But surely once in a minute something generous dies for want of it.
For centuries many of the world's distinguished philosophers have assaulted Christianity as being irrational, superstitious and absurd.
The church is not going to survive if they are going to tell people that they have to twist their minds into 1st century pretzels.
The problem and privilege we all have is being alive in this century and able to read this language. It makes any list meaningless except the list of an illiterate.
Here we are in the century of information, that is to say the unformed. Every kind of literature will be journalistic, with a science for ballast.
My forte is playing drunks down the ages. When my agent rings me about a role, I don't ask what the part is, but what century it's in.
In the latter half of the last century the impact of the expanding influence of Western culture and economic system brought about in China a severe conflict.
For several centuries what has passed for song in literary circles was any text that looked like the lyrics for a commonplace melodic setting.
And so by the fifteenth century, on October 8, the Europeans were looking for a new place to try to get to, and they came up with a new concept: the West.
We Americans sit at the head of the banquet table, as we have done for a century. Our standard of living is luxurious by any measure.
Think about technological float: it took centuries for the wheel to gain universal acceptance. Now any microchip device can be in use around the world in weeks.
Modern low temperature physics began with the liquefaction of helium by Kamerlingh Onnes and the discovery of superconductivity at the University of Leiden in the early part of the 20th century.
For most of history, man has had to fight nature to survive; in this century he is beginning to realize that, in order to survive, he must protect it.
Languages are something of a mess. They evolve over centuries through an unplanned, democratic process that leaves them teeming with irregularities, quirks, and words like 'knight.'
The revival of Islam dates from the early years of the 20th century. It was brought about by their humiliation, by their sense of how low they'd fallen compared with the West.
Climatologists are all agreed that we'd be lucky to see the end of this century without the world being a totally different place, and being 8 or 9 degrees hotter on average.
