I am one of those people who deeply resents not having been born in the 19th century, when there were still open… — Bruce Babbitt Copy Share Image
U.S. Internal Revenue Service: an agency modeled after the revenue raising concepts of the 19th century economist, Jesse James. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
There can be no place in a 21st-century parliament for people with 15th-century titles upholding 19th-century prejudices. — Paddy Ashdown Copy Share Image
Gender and race got very entwined in the 19th century, as abolition broke out, and then women wanted the right to speak… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“16th century advertisements cannot market 21st century products. Look for what is necessary at the present moment.” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
I just don't care about popular culture. It looks to me pointless and superficial. If I had free time I'd rather read… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
You just don't in the 21st century behave in 19th century fashion by invading another country on completely trumped up pre-text, — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
Balzac loved courtesans. They were independent women, and in the 19th century, that was a breed that was just evolving. — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
Typical horror movies of the 1930s were often given a period setting in what looked like a kind of stylized 19th century...… — Andrew Tudor Copy Share Image
I basically have the diet of a 19th-century Irish navy, apart from the litre of stout a day. It's meat and potatoes… — Daniel Radcliffe Copy Share Image
The thing I love about Dickens is the omniscient, omnipotent narrator, and the great confidence of the narrator, which marks 19th-century novelists… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
In the middle ages, people took potions for their ailments. In the 19th century they took snake oil. Citizens of today's shiny,… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
I believe sans serif typefaces - today upheld as models of neutrality and legibility - were called "Grotesques" in the 19th century… — Michael Bierut Copy Share Image
In the 19th century China dominated the manufacture of porcelain. Then European factories discovered a cheaper method of making pottery of equal… — Martin Sorrell Copy Share Image
I am a curious creature and put my finger in as many cakes as I can: history, film, technology, etc. I'm also… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
For daughters of the new American billionaires of the 19th century, it was the ultimate deal: marriage to a cash-strapped British Aristocrat… — Daisy Goodwin Copy Share Image
We've wanted to produce more in the 19th century and the 20th century in order to give man the possibility for more… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
The American tradition of foreign policy exceptionalism, our grand strategy as a nation, reaches back much further. Really at the turn -… — Daniel Fried Copy Share Image
It hurt the economic historians, the Marxists and the fabians, to admit that the Ten Hour Bill, the basic piece of 19th… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
Barrie and the wonderful characters he created, Lewis Carroll, even French literature, like Baudelaire or over in the States, Poe, you open… — Johnny Depp Copy Share Image
Instead of being a page-turner, 'Moby-Dick' is a repository of American history and culture and the essentials of Western literature. The book… — Nathaniel Philbrick Copy Share Image
Until the 19th century, the term 'to consume' was used mainly in its negative connotations of 'destruction' and 'waste'. Tuberculosis was known… — Petr Skrabanek Copy Share Image
Don't assume that the way that one searches and researches is the same from one era to another - it isn't. In… — Howard Gardner Copy Share Image
George Bush is by American standards rabidly Upper Class - Eastern, Socially Attractive, WASP, 19th-century money, several generations of Andover and Yale… — Peter York Copy Share Image
The age of recalcitrance is over. The best solution is no longer just to regurgitate a 19th-century design. — Thom Mayne Copy Share Image
“Far from being marginalized, as is presently the case, nineteenth-century freethought was a social movement at the core of our national life.” — Fred Whitehead Copy Share Image
I love the 19th-century idea of the flaneur, the poet wandering through the streets. — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
The 19th-century Continental porcelain plaques that are worth the most money are the pretty ones. — Judith Miller Copy Share Image
The House of Representatives eliminated the filibuster way back in the 19th century, and somehow it managed to survive. — Timothy Noah Copy Share Image
Nineteenth-century English literature I know; 19th-century sewage systems, not so much. — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
I'm a very old-fashioned novelist. I write 19th-century novels, where a lot of rules apply. — John Irving Copy Share Image
I'd love to have a 19th Century Russian book club where all the members had to act like the pretentious minor noblemen… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
Late 19th-century America was basically a plutocratic enterprise while people toiled in mines and died of coal dust poisoning. — Adam Conover Copy Share Image
“Romanticism is a grace, celestial or infernal, that bestows us eternal stigmata.” — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
“(...) a ingenuidade se mantém como a indumentária de honra do gênio, assim como a nudez é a da beleza.” — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
More particularly, having a largely German-oriented education has made me very responsive to 19th-century German literature. — John le Carre Copy Share Image
I've read short stories that are as dense as a 19th century novel and novels that really are short stories filled with… — Lynn Abbey Copy Share Image
During the 19th-century struggle for women's rights in America, many saw a competition between rights for black people and those for women. — Karen DeCrow Copy Share Image
Let's forget a little about the 19th century and start looking at the 21st century. — Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada Copy Share Image
We're trying to run a 21st century society and economy with 19th century Darwinian, competitive, crude ideas. — Susan George Copy Share Image
