Quotes of: Nineteenth-century Keyword

If you're building a social product, you're still living in the last century if your product doesn't work on Facebook.

Max Levchin

You are as prone to love, as the sun is to shine.

Centuries Of Meditations

This is the age of insincerity. The movies had the misfortune to come along in the twentieth century, and because they appeal to the masses there can be no sincerity in them.

Lionel Barrymore

The Futurists were an art movement in the early 20th century which basically glorified machines and the Industrial Revolution.

Britt Daniel

For someone who needs refuge, a key is provided.

Little Century

History shows that people are as changeable as rivers.

Traveler of the Century

The dilemma for early 21st century journalism is this: Who will pay for the news?

Nathan Myhrvold

For centuries, magicians have intuitively taken advantage of the inner workings of our brains.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Travelling is almost like talking with those of other centuries.

Rene Descartes

The thriller is the most popular literary genre of the 20th century.

Ken Follett

Only those of us live for centuries that decided not to live in their short lives.

M.F. Moonzajer

I think President Clinton was probably the brightest President of the 20th century.

Martin Sheen

From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us.

Napoleon Bonaparte

I'm a feminist, a 21st-century feminist - which means choice and freedom. One has the right to be both glamorous and ethically structured.

Arielle Dombasle

But with the steady disintegration of the family in modern society over the last century, the role of the school in bridging the gap has become vital!

Stephen Covey

I've always thought of science fiction as being, at some level, a 19th-century business.

Robert Reed

You don't have to be Jewish to understand the history of Europe in the 20th century, but it helps.

Tony Judt

Modernism, rebelling against the ornament of the 19th century, limited the vocabulary of the designer. Modernism emphasized straight lines, eliminating the expressive S curve. This made it harder to communicate emotions through design.

Eva Zeisel

One of the great defects of English books printed in the last century is the want of an index.

Lafcadio Hearn

In the 19th century the anatomy of the eye was known in great detail and the sophisticated mechanisms it employs to deliver an accurate picture of the outside world astounded everyone who was familiar with them.

Michael Behe

I used to have a great love for Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy, the big boys of the last century.

Norman MacCaig