In the later nineteenth century, the tops of skyscrapers often took the shape of domes, surmounted by jaunty gilded lanterns; later came… — Brendan Gill Copy Share Image
There is some evidence that average wave heights are slowly rising, and that freak waves of eighty or ninety feet are becoming… — Sebastian Junger Copy Share Image
Back then, when I had that original idea to write about the seventeenth century, the whole thing was set in 1666. I… — Danielle Dutton Copy Share Image
Suddenly, in the early 20th century, there were thousands of men with essentially nothing to do. The farm work, as well as… — Peter Buffett Copy Share Image
I never meant to marry. In my opinion, a woman born in the last half of the nineteenth century of the Christian… — Barbara Mertz Copy Share Image
GLHR... has used Greenpeace-style media antics to draw more public attention to the plight of sweatshop workers than the multimillion - dollar… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
For nearly a quarter of a century, I have been engaged in the investigation of the fundamentals of life, the material universe… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
I think it is time we learned the lesson of our century: that the progress of the human spirit must keep pace… — Leonard Bernstein Copy Share Image
Pure phenomenology claims to be the science of pure phenomena. This concept of the phenomenon, which was developed under various names as… — Edmund Husserl Copy Share Image
You tell me which society is going to be the winner in this 21st Century: One that worries about how we feel… — Jeb Bush Copy Share Image
During the first half of the present century we had an Alexander von Humboldt, who was able to scan the scientific knowledge… — Hermann von Helmholtz Copy Share Image
The tendencies are considerably weaker in the natural sciences, which, for the past several centuries, have survived and flourished through such constant… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
One life is but a single act. One body - a garment. One century - a day. One task - an experience.… — Andre Luiz Moreira Copy Share Image
The Marxist critique is only a critique of capital, a critique coming from the heart of the middle and petit bourgeois classes,… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
The black family survived centuries of slavery and generations of Jim Crow, but it has disintegrated in the wake of the liberals'… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
What I find interesting about folklore is the dialogue it gives us with storytellers from centuries past. — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
It was a real revolution. But with one missing feature. That is the feeling in a people that "We have done it… — Neal Ascherson Copy Share Image
Our Founding Fathers never meant for Washington, D.C. to be the fount of all wisdom. As a matter of fact they were… — Rick Perry Copy Share Image
Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism. — Benito Mussolini Copy Share Image
he cut through the 21st Century Gallery, past the big plastic statues of Pluto and Mickey, animal headed gods of lost America — Philip Reeve Copy Share Image
The earthquake in Haiti was a class-based catastrophe. It didn't much harm the wealthy elite up in the hills, they were shaken… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Blake understood. Treated it like a joke, but he understood. He saw the cracks in society, saw the little men in masks… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
Twentieth century history of Christianity will name Oral Roberts as the voice that brought the Pentecostal movement to be taken seriously by… — Robert H. Schuller Copy Share Image
I'm definitely a child of the 21st century and I prefer texting to phone calls, but I would prefer an answering machine… — Brendan Dooling Copy Share Image
By the end of this century, climate change will reduce the human population to a few breeding pairs surviving near the Arctic. — James Lovelock Copy Share Image
