Century Quotes · Page 13

The Internet is the crime scene of the 21st Century.

— Cyrus Vance Jr

Mark Twain gave us an insight into the life on the Mississippi at the turn of the century.

— Bob Newhart

Our names were made for us in another century.

— Richard Brautigan

“decemnovenarianize v. to act like a person of the 19th century”

— Greg Ross

Custom is petrification, nothing but dynamite can dislodge it for a century.

— Mark Twain

The United States has been a global power since late in the 19th century.

— Robert M. Gates

The 20th century was a test bed for big ideas - fascism, communism, the atomic bomb.

— P. J. O'Rourke

The most exciting thing in the twentieth century is science.

— John Charles Polanyi

I think the inhabitants of the past are fighting hard to keep the rents they acquired in the 20th century.

— Michael Bennet

Right up to the middle of this century all perceptions of the world around us were delivered via the bookshelf or the…

— Theodore Bikel

Languages are something of a mess. They evolve over centuries through an unplanned, democratic process that leaves them teeming with irregularities, quirks,…

— Joshua Foer

The 19th century belonged to England, the 20th century belonged to the U.S., and the 21st century belongs to China. Invest accordingly.

— Warren Buffett

Together, we can create a world in which peace is real; in which every human being can thrive; in which all share…

— Anonymous

The great man... walks across his century and leaves the marks of his feet all over it, ripping out the dates on…

— Stephen Leacock

Make a spurious division of one process into two, forget that you have done it, and then puzzle for centuries as to…

— Anonymous

It is time to understand the environment for what it is: the national security issue of the early twenty-first century.

— Robert D. Kaplan

Now, as Mandelbrot points out, ... Nature has played a joke on the mathematicians. The 19th-century mathematicians may not have been lacking…

— Freeman Dyson

Could the one whom Christians worship be merely a mythological creation, or is he real? These questions have exercised many great minds…

— John Clayton

In 1938, after Austria, our universe had become accustomed to inhumanity, to lawlessness, and brutality as never in centuries before. In a…

— Stefan Zweig

Born and raised in Paris, I am deeply attached to my city; we almost have half a century of love story together,…

— Christian Louboutin

The bigger question is how does a rogue species called humans - whose population just blew through the seven billion mark on…

— Edward Burtynsky

Liberty and morality had to win their way slowly over many centuries, until finally expanding liberty made possible the great technological advance…

— Murray Rothbard

At the dawn of the 21st century, a free people must now choose to shape the forces of the Information Age and…

— William J. Clinton

Down through the centuries, this trick has been tried by various establishments throughout the world. They force people to get involved in…

— Pete Seeger

Once I spoke about this subject among a group of English intellectuals. One of them was a professor on Roman Law at…

— Garry Kasparov

But who prays for Satan? Who in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed…

— Mark Twain

This, I believe, is the appropriate image of human intercourse -- appropriate because it recognizes the qualities, the diversities, and the proper…

— Michael Joseph Oakeshott

We have the greatest resource universities in the world, the only place in the world. We have the most productive workforce in…

— Joe Biden

Henceforward the Christian Churches having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof, came into the hands of the Encratites: and…

— Isaac Newton

Louis B. Mayer is one of those with a claim to posessing the equation... he began to buy up nickelodeon arcades in…

— Edward Jay Epstein

“The summer ends and we wonder who we are And there you go, my friends, with your boxes in your car And…

— Dar Williams

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

I think he [President Clinton] was probably the brightest President of the 20th century.

— Martin Sheen

Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years.

— Henry David Thoreau

My big hobby is photography. I collect stereo photographs from the 19th century.

— Brian May

This century is going to be a very dangerous century.

— Duncan Hunter

A grain of poetry suffices to season a century.

— Jose Marti

I would argue [princess] Margaret is the tragic figure of the century.

— Vanessa Kirby

History has shown that at least one-half of every century is consumed in war.

— James Monroe

Minds are the real estate of the 21st century.

— Chuck D