Century Quotes

I think it is beyond doubt that H. P. Lovecraft has yet to be surpassed as the twentieth century's greatest practitioner of the classic horror tale.

Economics is like a church, and it fulfills the same function the church had fulfilled for centuries: the justification of the status quo.

For someone who loves literature, and all books on principle, being asked to name three titles over a half century of serious reading is akin to asking one to recall their three favorite sunsets.

You'd think that in this age, especially in the 21st century - especially with all the technology and all the discoveries that we've made - that we would figure out how to tackle abuse.

Hayek, in my view, is the leading economic thinker of the 20th century.

I think the biggest innovations of the twenty-first century will be the intersection of biology and technology. A new era is beginning, just like the digital one was when I was his age.

We're going to build the bridge to the 21st century, we have to make our children free - free of the vise grip of guns and gangs and drugs; free to build lives of hope.

Part of the challenge of being a girl living in the 21st Century, looking back, the danger is to not judge your character by your own standards.

A distinguished clergyman told me that he chose the profession of a clergyman because it afforded the most leisure for literary pursuits. I would recommend to him the profession of a governor.

That natural disasters are required to provide Americans with a glimpse of reality in their own country is an indication of the deep rot infecting the official political culture.

Someone needs to drag you kicking and screaming into this century.

In international commerce, India is an ancient country-(19th October, 1899)

Participatory complexity may well be the key descriptor of the 21st century - in our economies, in our politics, and in our everyday lives.

Investing in industries and technology for the 21st century generates high-skilled, high-wage jobs for industries of the future.

The 19th century belonged to England, the 20th century belonged to the U.S., and the 21st century belongs to China. Invest accordingly.

We cannot meet 21st Century challenges with a 20th Century bureaucracy.

The 20th century was the time when the world turned to use of fossil fuels and the 21st century will be the century of the renewables.

I would say I'm a 19th-century liberal, possibly even an 18th-century one.

Words have great cumulative power, but in the 21st century, a single image is much stronger. An image suggests the unvarnished truth. That is its power and its fiction.

We need to invest in peoples lives so that they can do the jobs of the 21st century.

I've always been in love with the movies. They're the dreams of the 20th Century.

Indeed, we Jews were at the leading edge of communist totalitarianism, one of the most murderous movements of the 20th century.

Boxing is changing and training methods are slowly being dragged into the 21st century.

The world is a colony of the US. The twentieth century was the US's century.

My big hobby is photography. I collect stereo photographs from the 19th century.

The thriller is the cardinal twentieth-century form. All it, like the twentieth century, wants to know is: Who's Guilty?

I am one of those people who deeply resents not having been born in the 19th century, when there were still open places to explore.

The ruins of the unsustainable are the 21st century’s frontier.

I was in school for literature, and read so many 19th century and early 20th century novels that it was hard to break out of that and read an average Jeanette Winterson book or something.

I think there's every reason this 21st century will be much happier.

Big machines are the awe-inspiring cathedrals of the 20th century.

In the late twentieth century, staying sober has become just as much an addiction as getting wasted.

The twentieth century saw the emergence of a Churchless Mission and a Missionless Church

You could say that Trump is the 21st century version of Pat Buchanan. Protectionist, anti-immigrant.

We have to rethink how to teach financial education in the 21st century.

I believe that justices must recognize that our Constitution is an 18th-century document that needs to be applied in the context of the 21st century.

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

It has become part of the accepted wisdom to say that the twentieth century was the century of physics and the twenty-first century will be the century of biology.

Not only did she [Marilyn Monroe] master her own image, create it and ultimately control it, she was the subject of many of the great masters of photography of the 20th century.

We forget that the nineteenth century often turned work into sport. We, in contrast, often turn sport into work.

The most revolutionary invention of the Nineteenth Century was the artificial sterilization of marriage.

The phenomenon of nature is more splendid than the daily events of nature, certainly, so then the twentieth century is splendid.

The new markets that arise from ecological constraints will dominate the 21st century economy, and so will markets for knowledge.

There is a wealth of twentieth century music that is being re-discovered by a generation that hasnt heard it.

Nevertheless, during the sixty years of the twentieth century many problems have come increasingly into the realm of acceptable public discussion.

I have been very clear about the necessity for doing whatever is required to move the VA into the 21st century.

Television is the medium of the 20th century.

It [ non-Euclidean geometry ] would be ranked among the most famous achievements of the entire [nineteenth] century, but up to 1860 the interest was rather slight.

Wrap up the 20th century; Fred Astaire is gone.

Jack Vance's Lyonesse books are the greatest fairy tale of the twentieth century.