Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time.
I still the love classic period, but also the baroque period, and even 17th-Century music such as the music of Monteverdi. He's one of the greatest opera composers. He was the one who really started the opera.
I'd love to have a 19th Century Russian book club where all the members had to act like the pretentious minor noblemen they were reading about.
I'm just interested in serialization in fiction. I'm fascinated by it. I love the 19th-century novels. I'm interested in ways to bring that back to fiction.
At the beginning of the twentieth century, every single leading Muslim intellectual was in love with the west, and wanted their countries to look just like Britain and France.
Strangely, Dante's Divine Comedy did not produce a prose of that creative height or it did so after centuries.
I have some beautiful 20th-century drawings and a few paintings, but I'm not a collector, and I'm not particularly attached to objects.
It is within the last quarter century or thirty years. And a lot of that law has turned out to be very, very protective of the press and the public's right to know.
I am a 21st century person who was accidentally launched in the 20th. I have a deep nostalgia for the future
Consider the Essay as a political pamphlet on the Revolution side, and the fact that it was the Whig gospel for a century, and you will see its working merit.
Warnings about children being overscheduled, racing from one enriching activity to the next, first surfaced in the early 20th century.
The free trade movement in the middle of the last century represents the first conscious recognition of these new circumstances and of the necessity to adapt to them.
Advertising has done more to cause the social unrest of the 20th century than any other single factor.
Sexism, like racism, goes with us into the next century. I see class warfare as overshadowing both.
It seems that so much writing is being done in the nineteenth-century model, where every connection has to be thoroughly explained.
I think people are always saying things are 'over.' Fiction has been regularly 'over' since the 19th century.
I hope for some sort of peace—but I fear that machines are ahead of morals by some centuries and when morals catch up there'll be no reason for any of it.
A century ago, petroleum - what we call oil - was just an obscure commodity; today it is almost as vital to human existence as water.
We live in a dominant culture of ceaseless Departure and Progress that has so far lasted two or three centuries.
Rather, like the anarchists of the last century, he didn't care if he was killed or not. They just wanted to be known. We found no trace of any conspiracy.
When modern political Zionism emerged around the turn of the twentieth century, most Orthodox Jews opposed it.
