Century Quotes

Vladimir Nabokov said the two great evils of the 20th century were Marx and Freud. He was absolutely correct.

The plain truth is that the period I study is the 16th century, and they were absolutely obsessed with witches and spiritual beings.

I figured that to be a writer I would need to have been born in the nineteenth century, be British, or have three names. So I turned my sights elsewhere . . . to acting.

Michael Winterbottom is one of the great directors of this century.

We are on the path toward becoming the Sparta of the 21st century, armed to the teeth and without the capacity to care for our own people.

20th century poetry is a piñata. Images break from the earth when the poet strikes it.

I'm concerned about the role the court will play in protecting individual rights in this and the next century.

Now if you think about the 20th century and the idea of visual vocabulary the album occupies a really important space in the cultural landscape and, above all.

Ironically, the only gun control in 19th century England was the policy forbidding police to have arms while on duty.

For millions of years, on average, one species became extinct every century.... We are now heaving more than a thousand different species of animals and plants off the planet every year.

There are two things in particular that it [the computer industry] failed to foresee: one was the coming of the Internet(...); the other was the fact that the century would end.

This century is going to be a very dangerous century.

And though the newspapers called the shooting the Crime of the Century, Goldman knew it was only 1906 and there were ninety-four years to go.

The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we need witnesses to this terrifying century.

The great challenge of the twenty-first century is to raise people everywhere to a decent standard of living while preserving as much of the rest of life as possible.

This planet can be a paradise in the 22nd century.

We're not on a sustainable path in civilization. We're on an exponential growth curve, on which we perhaps always have been, but it has turned up sharply at the beginning of the 20th century.

An illuminating read for every classical scholar engaged with the current quest for the subject's roots, and the excavation of the way that it has evolved over the past century and a half.

Yes, you have been away a very long time.' 'Oh, centuries and centuries; so long,' she said, 'that I'm sure I'm dead and buried and this dear old place is heaven.

By the age of eighteen, a human has acquired enough joy and heartache to provide the food of reflection for a century.

Rome is ... an impossible compounding of time, in which no century has respect for any other and all hit you in a jumble at every turn.

One thing is that [Tibetans] should not give up hope. That's - even [if] it lasts a century. My discussions with the Dalai Lama always were about that.

It may be said of happy marriages as of the phoenix - there is but one a century.

Reformist kings can save their dynasties now by helping their countries move smoothly into democracy, or they will end their years in exile like the Russian aristocrats of a century earlier.

It's not the nineteenth century; I'm not meant to be judged on how good a housekeeper I am. Getting down on the floor with a lemon and a bucket of vinegar does not make me a better person.

By the end of the Twentieth Century, taxation will be reduced to a minimum, the entire world will be open to trade, and there will be no need of a standing army.

We don't have a clear path forward, and that's been the case for feminism since the 18th century, when the idea of the rights of women actually began.

The very idea of photography is as Oliver Wendell Holmes said in the 19th century, "it's a mirror with a memory."

It may happen in the next hundred years that the English novelists of the present day will come to be valued as we now value the artists and craftsmen of the late eighteenth century.

Adolescence is a twentieth-century invention most parents approach with dread and look back on with the relief of survivors.

A vision of Europe fit for the 21st century and a practical plan to deliver strong rights, decent jobs and livelihoods, with strong unions at its heart, is one worth fighting for.

A half century of living should put a good deal into a person's face besides a few wrinkles and some unwelcome folds around the chin.

What Marie Antoinette was to eighteenth-century France, Mary Pickford is to twentieth-century America.

Abstract paintings must be as real as those created by the 16th century Italians.

The people of your century no longer require the service of composers. A composer is as useful to a person in a jogging suit as a dinsoaur turd in the middle of his runway.

True science is at length disencumbered of the empirical determinations which had accumulated in the course of many centuries.

Thanks to the discoveries of astronomers in the twentieth century, we now know that the heat death is a myth. The heat death can never happen, and there is no paradox.

Mozart, the last chord of a centuries-old great European taste.

After Buddha was dead, his shadow was still shown for centuries in a cave.

He who knoweth the reader, doeth nothing more for the reader. Another century of readers - and spirit itself will stink.

Thus Arm in Arm with thee I dare defy my century into the lists.

You can't murder a man who's been dead for five centuries.

Building human-centered organizations doesn't imply a return to the paternalistic, corporate welfare practices of the 19th century. Most of us don't want to be nannied.

A single gnomic line can come to resonate with centuries of subsequent wisdom.

I immediately noticed there were far more male characters than female characters in the programs, even now, in the 21st century.

The modern Australia, the Australia of the 21st Century, Malcolm Turnbull's Australia has nothing to do with the kind of protectionist and xenophobic attitudes that Pauline Hanson represents.

Baseball is a nineteenth-century pastoral game. Football is a twentieth-century technological struggle.

Most of my influences are turn-of-the-century.

By the 20th century, war ceased to be an encounter between two armies. It became an encounter between two societies, because a factory worker producing a gun or a bomb is as deadly as a pilot.

On the basis of my historical experience, I fully believe that mathematics of the 25th century will be as different from that of today as the latter is from that of the 16th century.