Quotes of: Nineteenth-century Keyword

In this choice, as I look back over more than half a century, I can only follow - and trust - the same sort of instinct that one follows in the art of fiction.

Mary Augusta Ward

Theoretically speaking a good reader should also be a good learner, whatever the century and the place!

Aforismi geniali di William Shakespeare.

With its fluctuating forms and needless decoration, fashion epitomizes the supposedly unproductive waste that inspired 20th-century technocrats to dream of central planning. It exists for no good reason. But that's practically a definition of art.

Virginia Postrel

With few exceptions, music has been for some centuries the art which has devoted itself not to the reproduction of natural phenomena, but rather to the expression of the artist's soul, in musical sound.

Wassily Kandinsky

The public's imagination is rarely captured by bland temperance.

The Kennedy Half-Century: The Presidency, Assassination, and Lasting Legacy of John F. Kennedy

Philosophy may be blind without science, but science can lack vision without philosophy.

Socrates in Cyberspace: The Search for the Soul in the 21st Century

The 'will to peace' is the best answer that we can imagine to the 'will to war', which unfortunately seems as strong in this century as it was in the middle of the last.

Survivors: The A-bombed Trees of Hiroshima

The fastest that human spacecraft are likely to achieve in the twenty-first century, I think, is 300 kilometres per second.

The Science of Interstellar

In the twentieth century, nowhere on Earth was sex so vigorously suppressed as in America---and nowhere else was there such a deep interest in it.

Stranger in a Strange Land

You receive in return what you plant with your words and your deeds.

My Quarter-of-a-Century Life Lessons: Building a Foundation for Success

Silence is so steadfast, you know. It is so ample, after all.

The Nightingales of Troy: Stories of One Family's Century

One book calls to another unexpectedly, creating alliances across different cultures and centuries.

The Library at Night

A century ago, people laughed at the notion that we were descended from monkeys. Today, the individuals most offended by that claim are the monkeys.

Scouting for the Reaper

Left vs. Right is an out-dated concept and an oversimplification of 21st Century politics

The Orphan Conspiracies: 29 Conspiracy Theories from The Orphan Trilogy

The hunger for land: that great hunger which for more than half a century was to shake Russia and to throw her into a fever, body and mind.

The Prophet Armed: Trotsky, 1879-1921

. . . 'exist because there are no longer any , settings in which memory is a real part of everyday experience.' And what are ? [They] are . . . vestiges . . . the rituals of a ritual-less society.

Reappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century

Sometimes I pretend I'm from the 19th century. Then I drive around and say, Wow! So this is what the future's like, huh?

This Book is Not FOR SALE

A Chinese poet many centuries ago noticed that to re-create something in words is like being alive twice.

Under the Tuscan Sun

Love, far from being blind, is the very emotion that allows us to see.

A Vindication of Love: Reclaiming Romance for the Twenty-first Century

I'm supposed to be making comics, so I had to do it the best way I knew how, which is what those guys at the beginning of the Twentieth Century were doing.

Art Spiegelman

If I had to model clothes in a time period other than the 21st century, I think I'd like to model way back when they just wore skin loincloths. That would be best suited for me - better than corsets. I'm quite claustrophobic.

Lara Stone