Quotes of: Eighteenth-century Keyword

Widespread caffeine use explains a lot about the twentieth century.

Greg Egan

Ronald Reagan was the greatest president of the twentieth century.

Rush Limbaugh

I would say I'm a 19th-century liberal, possibly even an 18th-century one.

Niall Ferguson

In the nineteenth century, slavery was the greatest wrong, and government never stood so tall as when it was redressing that wrong.

William Weld

What the history of aviation has brought in the 20th century should inspire us to be inventors and explorers ourselves in the new century.

Bertrand Piccard

Modern political science started in the late nineteenth century as a branch of history.

Jill Lepore

Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.

Robert Louis Stevenson

From Roger Bacon, the 13th century Franciscan who pioneered the scientific method, to George Lemaitre, the 20th century Belgian priest who first developed a mathematical foundation for the 'Big Bang,' people of faith have played a key role in advanci...

Kenneth R. Miller

Access to the Vedas is the greatest privilege this century may claim over all previous centuries.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

Nineteenth-century grass-roots populism made twentieth-century progressivism possible.

Jill Lepore

I think psychology and self-reflection is one of the major catastrophes of the twentieth century.

Werner Herzog

If the end of the twentieth century can be characterized by futurism, the twenty-first can be defined by presentism.

Douglas Rushkoff

We're trying to run a 21st century society and economy with 19th century Darwinian, competitive, crude ideas.

Susan George

Motion pictures are the art form of the 20th century, and one of the reasons is the fact that films are a slightly corrupted artform. They fit this century - they combine Art and business!

Roger Corman

Nineteenth-century English literature I know; 19th-century sewage systems, not so much.

Glen Duncan

The horror of the Twentieth Century was the size of each new event, and the paucity of its reverberation.

Norman Mailer

In the nineteenth century the more grandiose word inspiration began to replace the word idea in the arts.

Lukas Foss

In this century, the 21st century, the U.S. recognizes our prosperity and our security depends even more on the Asia-Pacific region.

Leon Panetta

I don't know if I change my act from century to century. Sometimes I'm onstage doing imitations and references to people who have been dead for 50 years.

Gilbert Gottfried

Let Indian history be set side by side with Europe history with what there is of the latter century by century and let us see whether India need blush at the comparison.

Annie Besant

I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complains, never explains and never disdains.

James A. Michener