Century Quotes

What happened to poetry in the twentieth century was that it began to be written for the page.

But are they all horrid, are you sure they are all horrid? [Referring to Gothic novels, fashionable in England at the beginning of the 19th century, but frowned upon in polite society.]

The 21st century is a really terrible time to be a control freak.

In fact, the 20th century I think was the most fascinating century and the whole of man civilization because so much happened.

The forces of the nineteenth century have run their course and are exhausted.

It seems to me that President Carter has earned his place as if not the worst president in history, the worst president of the 20th Century.

In the 21st century nations don't invade other nations.

Photography is the dominant and fascinating and only authentic folk art of the twentieth century.

In the twentieth century the number of people killed by their own governments under authoritarian regimes is four times the number killed in all this century's wars combined.

I am a child of the 21st century.

When I write lyrics, I really do go into an automatic folk appropriation mode... I see the vernacular register of 20th century song as being a bunch of forms to adapt and reconfigure.

Since the 18th century, many Western intellectuals have predicted religion's imminent demise.

I did a book in 1996, an overview of black history. In that process I became more aware of a lot of the black inventors of the 19th century.

the late twentieth century will go down in history, i'm sure, as an era of pharmaceutical buffoonery.

In this century, the 21st century, the U.S. recognizes our prosperity and our security depends even more on the Asia-Pacific region.

Comandante Fidel Castro is the greatest revolutionary of the 20th Century, bar none.

War was a hellish, horrible hideous thing - too horrible and hideous to happen in the twentieth century between civilised nations.

Proust was the greatest novelist of the twentieth century, just as Tolstoy was in the nineteenth.

Once upon a time, novelists of the 19th century, such as Charles Dickens, published in serial form.

Posterity--the forlorn child of nineteenth century optimism--grows ever harder to conceive.

We are in the 21st century; what are the kings or the queens doing in this century? They must remain in the past!

Paradigm shifts aren't always obvious when you're in the middle of one. Danny Kennedy makes a compelling case for why solar power is the crucial energy technology of the 21st century.

What I love about making albums in the 21st century is that so few people buy albums! I can make an album without any commercial concerns whatsoever.

I think future generations will say the late 20th century and the early 21st century was a time of great convulsions and upheavals.

The 21st century is the century of knowledge. Knowledge, science and education will have the power and strength to embrace the entire universe.

A woman was the property of her father or her husband and that remained true right into the twentieth century. It wasn't until 1975 that women had a guaranteed right to serve on federal juries.

I greatly enjoyed Tom Reiss's The Orientalist, for its mingled scholarship and sleuthing, and for so elegantly solving the puzzle of one of the Twentieth Century's most mysterious writers.

I've had very close relationships with some twentieth-century writers.

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

Suddenly, in the early 20th century, there were thousands of men with essentially nothing to do. The farm work, as well as other work, was being handled by machines.

exile ... might be the largest new state created by the twentieth century and the psychology of the twenty-first century.

If the rise of European colonisation began in 18th century India, then the rallying cry of 'Jai Hind!' also signalled its end in 1947.

India is going to be the 21st century's Saudi Arabia in terms of human resources

India is the Saudi Arabia of human resources for the 21st century. The power that we used to get from oil in 20th century, we will get it from people like you in 21st century.

I know absolutely nothing about the 20th Century.

U.S. Internal Revenue Service: an agency modeled after the revenue raising concepts of the 19th century economist, Jesse James.

The fact that I spend a lot of time in the 18th century doesn't mean I'm not concerned with the 21st.

The record of poetry in the 20th century isn't all that great anyway. Most of the poets who weren't fascists were Stalinists.

Metro, built in the late 20th century, is the most escalator-dependent system in the world.

The United States has been a global power since late in the 19th century.

Abundant, cheap electricity has been the greatest source of human liberation in the 20th century.

If you can read in the 21st century you own the world.

Look at the 18th century. There was a lot more freedom going on.

China has lunged into the 21st century, while India is still lurching toward it.

I think about capitalism, consumerism, our consumptive nature as a species approaching the 21st century. I certainly don't have the answers.

We must succumb to the general influence of the times. No man can be of the tenth century, if he would; be must be a man of the nineteenth century.

At the beginning of the twentieth century barbarism can throw off its gentle disguise, and burn a man at the stake as complacently as in the Middle Ages.

Fidel Castro is one of the most inspiring leaders of the 20th century.

I find that in the 21st century, there's not a lot of compassion for what other people are going through or the walk that they have to walk.

Just as women needed the help of the law to enter the workplace in the 20th century, men will need the help of the law to love their children in the 21st century.