There are so many great 19th-century photographers, and it's really my favorite period, but the amateurs did such beautiful work.
The great sin was adopting the 21st Century's Socialism, something that not even its founder, Ditrich knows exactly what it is, though he says it is under construction.
People are confusing me with a good actor when I'm just a good mimic. When someone asks me to play a nun from the fifteenth century, you'll see what I mean.
I do not have to look for credentials for my Polishness and for my patriotism. I'm a Pole. The chronicles of my family go back - as far back as the 13th century.
Vision is perhaps our greatest strength... it has kept us alive to the power and continuity of thought through the centuries, it makes us peer into the future and lends shape to the unknown.
For centuries, cultures throughout the world have used indigenous technologies to navigate life's complexities. From navigator-priests in Micronesia to mystics in India, vast sums of knowledge are available if we but recognize it.
The leadership lost its nerve. Instead of taking the lead in the reform movement... they pulled the plug on it. They tried and are still trying to return the church to the dry ice of the previous century and a half.
It's obvious that the key problem facing humanity in the coming century is how to bring a better quality of life - for 8 billion or more people - without wrecking the environment entirely in the attempt.
If we want to create a viable, peaceful world, we've got to integrate compassion into the gritty realities of 21st century life.
I think one of the important things that's happened in the course of the century is that life expectancy has doubled.
The Finland of the 21st century can thrive only if women of learning - in common with their male counterparts - are guaranteed the opportunity to use their creative potential to the full.
I'll see a celadon green room in an 18th century New Hampshire house and just fall in love. Colors stay in my head.
The two major challenges for the 21st century are to improve the economic situation of the majority and save as much of the planet as we can.
Borne out of this, starting around the 17th Century was the Baroque era. It is my view that it is one of the architectural peak periods in western civilisation.
The 21st Century has begun as an era of uncertainty, with a heightened focus on security and public safety.
Everyone agrees the celibacy rule is just a Church law dating from the 11th century, not a divine command.
Until the 20th century it was generally assumed that a writer had said what he had to say in his works.
The two defining issues of this century are both universal but felt locally: the global water crisis and the resources boom.
Jay-Z and Kanye West are to authentic rap culture what diseased rates were to 14th century Europeans
Green technologies - going green - is bigger than the Internet. It could be the biggest economic opportunity of the 21st century.
Our twenty-first century economy may focus on agriculture, not information.
