I cherish the review-as-literature; as lapidary journalism in the eighteenth-century mode, the last hard sparkling diamond in theessayists's tarnished crown. To me,… — Florence King Copy Share Image
Centuries from now our great-great-great-grandchildren will look back at us with amazement at how we could allow such a precious achievement of… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
Somehow in the 20th Century an idea has developed that music is an activity or skill which is not comprehensible to the… — Gavin Bryars Copy Share Image
I think there is a new awareness in this 21st century that design is as important to where and how we live… — Daniel Libeskind Copy Share Image
Thanks to the unprecedented reach of British navigation, London in the early 18th century was not just the emporium of the world,… — Neil MacGregor Copy Share Image
I think Twitter is the literature of the 21st century. I think it's an incredible art because when you make a book,… — Alejandro Jodorowsky Copy Share Image
American writers often say they find it difficult to write Superman. They say he's too powerful; you can't give him problems. But… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
Every limited mind demands a certain freedom of expression, and the man who cannot express himself satisfactorily without the stimulation derived from… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
We need to drive down requirements for the schools. In the 19th century, we increased the quality of the schools by higher… — Donna Shalala Copy Share Image
I would have loved to have been in Hong Kong, or China, in around the 18th century. — Keith Allen Copy Share Image
Now everyone leaking and tweeting and posting on everyone else is the acknowledged way to get ahead in the 21st century. — Tina Brown Copy Share Image
The fact that a Jewish state needs to exist at all - and it does need to exist - is an indictment… — Pat Condell Copy Share Image
The political currents that topped the global agenda in the late 20th century - revolutionary nationalism, feminism and ethnic struggle - place… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
Green-tech could be the largest economic opportunity of the 21st Century. — John Doerr Copy Share Image
It keeps startling me that at the beginning of this 21st century, at a time when we can . . . explore… — Thoraya Obaid Copy Share Image
For a century and a half now, America and Japan have formed one of the great and enduring alliances of modern times. — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
...By combining a popular hatred of the class of entrepreneurs with the blow already given to social security by the violent and… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
When I submitted samples, I had only written stories to give myself something to draw. I was told, "The art is good,… — Len Wein Copy Share Image
It is very easy for me to imagine in 200 years, people looking back at chemotherapy as proof that people of the… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
Hassan and I looked at each other. Cracked up. The Hindi kid would soon learn what the British learned earlier in the… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
There are Harvard grads, free thinkers, feminists, abolitionists, well-to-do people who want to go write poetry and live on a farm and… — Christine Jennings Copy Share Image
If spring came but once a century instead of once a year, or burst forth with the sound of an earthquake and… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
For twenty-five centuries, Western knowledge has tried to look upon the world. It has failed to understand that the world is not… — Jacques Attali Copy Share Image
No culture on earth outside of mid-century suburban America has ever deployed one woman per child without simultaneously assigning her such major… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Only a fool would try to compress a hundred centuries into a hundred pages of hazardous conclusions. We proceed. — Ariel Durant Copy Share Image
“To understand this new frontier, I will have to try to master one of the most difficult and counterintuitive theories ever recorded… — Marcus du Sautoy Copy Share Image
Whenever, in any century, whether in a single heart or in a company of believers, there has been a fresh effusion of… — Adoniram Judson Gordon Copy Share Image
It seems sensible to me that we should look to the medical profession, that over the centuries has helped us to live… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Ben Farmer brings a legend to life in Evangeline, evoking with grace and panache the travails of the Acadians in mid-eighteenth century… — Keith Donohue Copy Share Image
Grasp the opportunity with both hands to feel really very special as an Indian reading these quotes on the Indian Independence Day.… — Hu Shih Copy Share Image
Occasionally they came to villages, and at each village they encountered a roadblock of fallen trees. Having had centuries of experience with… — Richard Preston Copy Share Image
No woman is really an insider in the institutions fathered by masculine consciousness. When we allow ourselves to believe we are, we… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
We entered the 20th century trying to deal with three ideas purporting to define or describe or explain three spheres of action,… — Bruce Jackson Copy Share Image
It's been almost a century that Edward's been alone. Now he's found you. You can't see the changes we see, we who… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
Poets need be in no degree jealous of the geologists. The stony science, with buried creations for its domains, and half an… — Hugh Miller Copy Share Image
History had been man's effort to accomodate himself to what he could not do. Amereican history in the 20th century would, more… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
The beast exists because it is stronger than the thing that you call evolution. In it is some force of life, a… — Martin Berkeley Copy Share Image
Housetops were covered with 'gazers'; all wharves that offered a view were jammed with people ... As British officers happily reminded one… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
What Galileo and Newton were to the seventeenth century, Darwin was to the nineteenth. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
So far as we know, Earth is the only planet which supports life, and it is the only planet on which we… — Bob Brown Copy Share Image
