Quotes of: Twentieth-century Keyword

Captain Jean-Luc Picard: I've accessed a Borg neuroprocessor and I've discovered what they're trying to do. They're transforming the deflector dish into an interplexing beacon. Lt. Hawk: [confused] "Interplexing"? Captain Jean-Luc Picard: It's a subs...

Star Trek: First Contact

I've been very influenced by folklore, fairy tales, and folk ballads, so I love all the classic works based on these things -- like 's 19th century fairy stories, the fairy poetry of , and 's splendid book . (I think that particular book of hers wasn...

Terri Windling

The ruinous abdication by philosophy of its rightful domain is the consequence of the oblivion of philosophers to a great insight first beheld clearly by Socrates and re-affirmed by Kant as by no other philosopher. Science, concerned solely and exclu...

Life

...the art of Europe is drowned in the centuries in the war-scarred face of a motherland..

A Familiar Rain

One of the most persistent cultural tics of the early 21st century is Americans' reluctance to absorb, let alone prepare for, bad news.

Frank Rich

Rome has not seen a modern building in more than half a century. It is a city frozen in time.

Richard Meier

In the 19th century, you had bourgeois art without politics - an almost frozen idea of what beauty is.

Douglas Sirk

In art and music, particularly in the 20th century, there was a big period there where for something to be called profound you had to not be able to understand it.

Joshua Bell

I've had the good fortune of studying the 17th-century art of Amsterdam in preparation for a film.

Jack O'Connell

Eisenhower is my choice as the American of the 20th Century. Of all the men I've studied and written about, he is the brightest and the best.

Stephen Ambrose

Modern American magic, late 20th century magic, is tremendously disrespectful of the audience.

Penn Jillette

For better or worse, in the 21st century, reality shows are the variety show.

Penn Jillette

The words of the bards come down the centuries to us, warm with living breath.

Pádraig Pearse

After doing psychology for half a century, my passion for all of it is greater than ever.

Philip Zimbardo

I was fortunate in the last century to be in the two biggest hits film-wise, 'Godfather I' and 'Godfather II,' and 'Lonesome Dove.'

Robert Duvall

The number of those identifying as Aborigine in Tasmania rapidly rose in the late 20th century.

Richard Flanagan

The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.

Sinclair Lewis

A technical survey that systematize, digest, and appraise the mid century state of psychology.

Stanley Smith Stevens

It was not till toward the end of the thirteenth century that the prose romances began to appear.

Thomas Bulfinch

It's a very 18th-century thing to have a book broken into several volumes.

Matthew Tobin Anderson

The first thing I did was a print ad for Century Plaza. I was five.

Mark-Paul Gosselaar