Quotes of: Nineteenth-century Keyword

Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the 20th century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Sometimes you just stumble into something that works, and here I am a quarter of a century later.

Pat Sajak

No other place can so convincingly claim to be the capital of capitalism, the capital of the 20th century and the capital of the world.

Life

The more centuries that I am able to score, the happier I will be.

Virat Kohli

Let us make sure that the supreme fact of the 20th century is that they tread the same path.

Winston Churchill

I'm happy and I'm focused on my work... it's incredible to be able to work with 20th Century Fox and to keep opening doors for Mexicans and Latins in the United States.

Eiza Gonzalez

For centuries the leaders of Christian thought spoke of women as a necessary evil, and the greatest saints of the Church are those who despise women the most.

Annie Besant

The first World War in so many ways shaped the 20th century and really remade our world for the worse.

Adam Hochschild

When a bookmark tumbles out of an old book pristine and unwrinkled, it is like a gasp of breath from another century.

Free for All

The century's getting old and stale; it needs new tribes.

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I feel the 21st century is another new age. Not only can we collaborate again with nature, but we have to. It's an emergency.

Bjork

Today's developer is a poor substitute for the committed entrepreneur of the last century for whom the work of architecture represented a chance to celebrate the worth of his enterprise.

Arthur Erickson

At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art.

Brian Eno

There are some centuries which - apart from everything else - in the art and other disciplines presume to remake everything because they know how to make nothing.

Giacomo Leopardi

To be honest, I sort of feel like 'movie actor' isn't of this time. I love it. But it's a 20th-century art form.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

The Metropolitan Museum of Art is unsurpassed at presenting more than 50 centuries of work. I go there constantly, seeing things over and over, better than I've ever seen them before.

Jerry Saltz

To understand Occupy Wall Street, you have to understand artists. Art is freedom - freedom of expression - and its message has resonated through society for centuries.

Peter M. Brant

Conan Doyle deluded a century of readers into thinking we're all deductive geniuses.

Mr. Kiss and Tell

I'm no goddam animal. I may be a stupid, fouled-up twentieth-century son of a bitch, but I'm no animal. Don't gimme that. I'm no animal.

Nine Stories

After Homer and Dante, is a whole century of creating worth one Shakespeare?

The Sun Watches the Sun

But centuries of time have not made me insensitive

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