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
You can't name the inventor of the camera. The 19th-century invention was chemical: the fixative. — David Hockney Copy Share Image
“Between 1882 and 1968, more black people were lynched in MIssissippi than in any other state.” — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
Ironically, the only gun control in 19th century England was the policy forbidding police to have arms while on duty. — Don Kates Copy Share Image
I'm homeless, in a funny way. My culture I think is completely rooted in German 19th century music I suppose. — Hans Zimmer Copy Share Image
My heroes are, above all, the great 19th-century Americans: Emerson, Whitman, Dickinson and the others. I love the way they think. — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Beyond doubt, the most salient characteristic of life in this latter half of the 19th Century is its SPEED — William Rathbone Greg Copy Share Image
I had never read Victorian novels before going overseas. I read a handful of authors, but I had not immersed myself in… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
I feel that I belong to the 19th century. Some composers' music is very topical. It almost says, 'This is about what… — Gordon Getty Copy Share Image
When I was a kid growing up in Cleveland, I believed - completely, wholeheartedly, without reservation or pause - that the Cleveland… — Joe Posnanski Copy Share Image
The post-Cold War order in Europe is finished, with Vladimir Putin its executioner. Russia's invasion of Georgia only marked its passing. Russia… — Ivan Krastev Copy Share Image
Many great authors of the 19th century wrote under conditions of strict censorship. The great thing about the art of writing a… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
Our world is limited by the machinery we carry. It's very different to the 18th and 19th century Enlightenment scientists who were… — Bernard Beckett Copy Share Image
Late 19th-century populists saw bankers and industrialists manipulating markets to enrich themselves at the expense of small farmers and labourers and favoured… — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
In the 19th century, we devoted our best minds to exploring nature. In the 20th century, we devoted ourselves to controlling and… — Stephen Ambrose Copy Share Image
I definitely have a Luddite's approach to what's going on. I find that as I get older, I get stupider. For me,… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
Now, as Mandelbrot points out, ... Nature has played a joke on the mathematicians. The 19th-century mathematicians may not have been lacking… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
I love to try to understand first principles and be guided by that. But then, enrich them, because they won't last forever,… — Charles Koch Copy Share Image
“Rome took all the vanity out of me, for after seeing the wonders there, I felt too insignificant to live, and gave… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
This movement among the Jews is not new... this worldwide conspiracy for the overthrow of civilization and for the reconstitution of society… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
This movement among the Jews is not new... This world-wide conspiracy for the overthrow of civilisation and for the reconstitution of society… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
One of the things I've been most excited by is U.S. television drama. For my money, it's some of the greatest narrative… — Kevin Barry Copy Share Image
So, we've gone from covered wagons to going to the moon in just under 100 years. For all the centuries and thousands… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
France has lived a long time - eight or nine centuries - and yet art in France, too, was derivative up until… — Raoul Dufy Copy Share Image
Most of the well-known American feminists of the 19th century did not come out against the institution of marriage. — Karen DeCrow Copy Share Image
I first came to Russia because of the culture, literature and music... and my interest in the 19th-century revolutionary spirit of Herzen,… — Patch Adams Copy Share Image
Militarily, the great movements of resistance against colonial powers in the 18th and 19th century were almost all from Sufis: Imam Shamil… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
Historical costumes from the 18th and 19th centuries look so complicated, but when you see the patterns, it's very systematic. I've always… — Olivier Theyskens Copy Share Image
While every historical era has its unique appeal as a setting for tales of crime and detection, the 19th century is exceptional… — Sarah Weinman Copy Share Image
“Before, when I was ordered to consider him intelligent, I kept on trying to and I considered myself stupid for not seeing… — Leo Tolstoy Joel Carmichael translator Copy Share Image
Indeed, China may never acquire the geo-political influence and reach that Great Britain enjoyed in the 19th century and the United States… — Sanjaya Baru Copy Share Image
I'm creative in my own life. I'm creative when I step out the door. I'm creative when I pick up a glass.… — Jaye Davidson Copy Share Image
One of the interesting things I discovered is that in the late 19th century, painters actually had black-and-white copies made of their… — Robert Longo Copy Share Image
Specifically, the part where in the early 19th century America reconstituted the U.S. Marine Corps to battle the Islamic Barbary Pirates, though… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
One thing we do know is that mass literacy is a product of the 19th century, at least in English-speaking cultures -… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
... we cannot rule out the possibility that the changes of recent decades are part of a natural rebound from the 'Little… — Steven F. Hayward Copy Share Image
As far as what I do, my value as a writer is certainly not to try to recapitulate a 19th century form.… — Mark Leyner Copy Share Image
Let's not forget what the origin of the problem is. There is no place in modern Europe for ethnically pure states. That's… — Wesley Clark Copy Share Image
There has never been a century that has not had a systemic war - a systemic war, meaning when the entire system… — George Friedman Copy Share Image
