Century Quotes

Even though we now have the half-century-old new Constitution, there is a popular sentiment of support for the old one that lives on in reality in some quarters.

Jazz is a very accurate, curiously accurate accompaniment to 20th century America.

If the Ivy League was the breeding ground for the elites of the American Century, Stanford is the farm system for Silicon Valley.

But since the middle of the century in particular, the music has become very irregular in rhythm.

Manhattan... capital of the 20th century, a city that has fascinated me for more than three decades.

This is the river of the great 19th-century landscapists; of Cole, Cropsey and Church, and at the end of the summer it lies motionless under the haze as under a light coat of varnish.

In my opinion, the most significant works of the twentieth century are those that rise beyond the conceptual tyranny of genre; they are, at the same time, poetry, criticism, narrative, drama, etc.

In fact, 37 percent of all United States Nobel Prize winners in the 20th century have been representatives of the Jewish community.

If I haven't made myself clear, this worrisome chain of events describes the game of the nineteenth century.

All the nationalists are wasms - except one, the most powerful of this century, indeed, of the entire democratic age, which is nationalism.

Death of a Salesman' is a brilliant taxonomy of the spiritual atrophy of mid-twentieth-century white America.

Like the tail fins on fifties American cars or the parabolic shapes of Populuxe furniture, 'West Side Story' incarnates the dream of momentum in the golden age of the twentieth century.

The supposed great misery of our century is the lack of time.

It is more likely that more than a century will pass before we know the structure of the chemical atoms as thoroughly as we do our solar system.

The century is advanced, but every individual begins afresh.

A century and a half after its birth, the modern business corporation, an artificial person made in the image of a human psychopath, now is seeking to remake real people in its image.

Anonymous sources are a practice of American journalism in the 20th and 21st century, a relatively recent practice. The literary tradition of anonymity goes back to the Bible.

You have the 20th century wrapping up and everything is moving at this breakneck speed? And then, painting is still walking. It's just a very human activity that takes time.

We made it nearly 20 centuries, a bunch of monkeys with PH Ds.

That's really the challenge of this century, to develop spokespeople.

I think we ought to have a kindness year, or a kindness century.

J.L. Moreno was a pioneer of twentieth-century theater and psychotherapy. A remarkable work, Impromptu Man should be required reading for therapists and dramatists alike.

The same way that mid century modern architecture was in the 50s, I want to be as a human being. New. Different. Challenging the old. Function over frivolity. Clean living. Clean lines.

The last time the world was three degrees warmer than today-which is what we expect later this century-sea levels were 25m higher. So that is what we can look forward to if we don't act soon.

History is constantly repeating itself, making only such changes of programme as the growth of nations and centuries requires.

During the century after Newton, it was still possible for a man of unusual attainments to master all fields of scientific knowledge. But by 1800, this had become entirely impracticable.

I live in the 17th century. I don't have a computer. I don't look at the internet. I use a cellphone, and that's about my only connection to the modern world.

The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamt.

After a half-century of hard work and reflection the wall is still there.

I wish I was better at art. I love some of the great artists of the 19th century and, compared to them, I just feel I lack this technique that they had. They have so much skill.

It belongs among the refinements of totalitarian government in our century that they don't permit their opponents to die a great, dramatic martyr's death for their convictions.

Not every age allows its sons to reap the results which remain great for all time, and . . . not every century is fitted to make the men who live in it distinguished and happy.

TV is the rat race of the century.

Reality in our century is not something to be faced.

In every century, there are a handful of writers who help the human race to evolve. Andrea is one of them.

At American Airlines, we have built a business around the love of travel that has lasted three quarters of a century. And I'm pretty sure we're just getting started.

This young century will be liberty's century.

For a century and a half now, America and Japan have formed one of the great and enduring alliances of modern times.

But the eighteenth century, on the whole, loathed melancholy.

There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of the century, or even of the decade, before it has done so itself.

The strides of humanity are slow, they can only be counted in centuries.

What are we doing that for in the 21st century? Why on earth would we teach kids that girls are less important than boys? It just made no sense to me.

Don't be surprised if in the 21st century lectures on meditation appear in university catalogues for physics.

Even well-known historians like Edward Gibbon are talking about how the soldiers of the 18th century were not able to do the same type of exercise [like Romans].

Live with your century; but do not be its creature.

I am ashamed of my century for being so entertaining but I have to smile.

The 19th century was the age of Individualism the 20th and 21st are the ages of Socialism.

I suspect there are people in all walks of life who need to be dragged into the 21st century in terms of attitudes towards women.

It is within the last quarter century or thirty years. And a lot of that law has turned out to be very, very protective of the press and the public's right to know.

Christianity spread rapidly during the first century because all Christians saw themselves as responsible for disseminating the gospel.