Century Quotes

There are so many great 19th-century photographers, and it's really my favorite period, but the amateurs did such beautiful work.

Ah yes! Conservatives. Some of the finest minds of the 12th Century.

Satire about any and all professionals with a special vocabulary has been a staple of fiction and popular ridicule since the 18th century.

The four words that will define this century: The Earth is full.

Los Angeles, Houston, Denver, Atlanta: those are all cities that really didn't get big, didn't hit their stride until the 20th century.

Our epoch has been called the century of work. It is in fact the century of pain, misery and corruption.

I always thought that pop groups were going to be made up in the 21st century. It wouldn't be four musicians, as such. Especially in the online world, with the worlds that are opening up.

The only way we can give our children the best education in the world and prepare them for the next century is by funding the programs that serve them.

Frank Sinatra was the voice of the 20th-century American city.

Health, money. That's what people worried about in the 14th century as much as today. I find it so much more interesting than the supposed activities of kings, queens, generals.

A warming of this magnitude would risk the end of civilization as we know it by the end of this century.

The nineteenth-century way of looking at the photograph was as a mirror for the memory, and at that time the photographs almost looked like mirrors, with their polished metallic surfaces.

The most important contribution management needs to make in the 21st century is ... to increase the productivity of knowledge work and the knowledge worker

Leadership is all hype. We've had three great leaders in this century-Hitler, Stalin, and Mao.

I still would like you to feel the enthusiasm that all those people felt in the twenties and thirties, that indeed we had discovered, with cinema, the great 20th-century, all-embracing medium.

The new century will see unimaginable levels of wastefulness and extravagance, but it will also be an age in which the individual human being acquires a true and universally recognised value.

I was like one of those people who is allergic to the twentieth century... I'd been brought up to think there was some order to things, but there was no safety net. Doctors accused me of being mad.

Prog rock, with a little good taste, is ok. I tried to bring some of it into this century, I guess.

When the war started, religion and superstition (whatever the difference is) permeated the lives of ordinary soldiers, who lived in a thought world not too far removed from the seventeenth century.

I have started to say "A quarter of a century" Or "thirty years back" About my own life.

What we have to do is act as clearly and with as pure motivation as is possible now, and that will sow the seeds for good action maybe in the twenty-second century.

For centuries, Cubas greatest resource has been its people.

Our century is a brutal thinker.

We live, I think, in the century of science and, perhaps, even in the century of physics.

This is ideological colonization. They colonize people with ideas that try to change mentalities or structures, but this is not new. This was done by the dictatorships of the last century.

It is time for us Arabs and Muslims to formulate a committee of wise persons to bear the responsibility of engaging with this new American century.

Our children must be offered an education up to par with thier potential-and equal to the needs of the Twenty-first century.

Historical costumes from the 18th and 19th centuries look so complicated, but when you see the patterns, it's very systematic. I've always been impressed by how the patterns economize the fabric.

There were centuries when civilization had no theater.

Christianity has kept itself going for centuries on hope alone, and has perpetrated all manner of naughtiness in the meantime.

I don't quite see the 20th century as one of chaos. But I believe in certain inevitable outcomes of a materialist nature.

For over half a century the automobile has brought death, injury, and the most inestimable sorrow and deprivation to millions of people.

This (Coley's toxins) is really an effective treatment and it an OUTRAGEOUS crime of the century that we at MSK were able to cure cancer a 100 years ago that they can't cure today.

One single idea may have greater weight than all the men, animals, and machines for a century.

The frost which kills the harvest of a year saves the harvest of a century, by destroying the weevil or the locust.

The passages of Shakespeare that we most prize were never quoted until within this century.

I'd been born in the wrong century, and I felt cheated.

France has lived a long time - eight or nine centuries - and yet art in France, too, was derivative up until the 19th Century.

There are only one or two geniuses every century.

With a book tucked in one hand, and a computer shoved under my elbow, I will march, not sidle, shudder or quake, into the twenty-first century.

Cobden was the greatest statesman and prophet of the century. His speeches are an inspiration. A man whose disciple I am willing to confess I am.

Starting in the seventeenth century, the general theory of extreme values - maxima and minima - has become one of the systematic integrating principles of science.

The English were relatively short in the mid-nineteenth century and so their expeditions return with stories some exaggerated, not doubt about "giants" who lived in other parts of the world.

AIDS is the leprosy of the 21st Century. Where did Jesus hang out? With lepers. Jesus would love on people with AIDS.

Men who write love letters don't live in this century.

It would take centuries and he must grow and grow and grow, but he was in no hurry--he grokked that Eternity and the ever-beautifully-changing Now were identical.

I'm using myself as a typical 20th century model as I'm trying to make sense out of the world around me.

Milliseconds influence centuries.

I think there are more good young actors now than ever. It's a medium that everyone wants to be connected with - it is such a hip medium going into the 21st century.

I think we as Americans know there's a much better alternative than the 17th century practice of burning rocks to power our economy.