IT is an astonishing thing that historians will look back and puzzle over, that in the 21st century, American women were such… — Maureen Dowd Copy Share Image
We might expect intelligent life and technological communities to have emerged in the universe billions of years ago. Given that human society… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
Human beings have been smart enough to turn nature to their ends, generate vast wealth for themselves, and double their average life… — Thomas Homer-Dixon Copy Share Image
It's a sign of this film's greatness that the enormous sadness that accompanies the final leave-taking of the circus interior is a… — Jonathan Rosenbaum Copy Share Image
George Kennan and Paul Nitze were the Adams and Jefferson of the Cold War. They were there for the beginning, they witnessed… — John Lewis Gaddis Copy Share Image
Prescriptive grammar has spread linguistic insecurity like a plague among English speakers for centuries, numbs us to the aesthetic richness of non-standard… — John H. McWhorter 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
To have a Welch-caliber C.E.O. is impressive.To have a century of Welch-Caliber C.E.O.'s all grown from the inside - well, that is… — James C. Collins Copy Share Image
Young people and Indian people need to know that we existed in the 20th Century. We need to know who our heroes… — Russell Means Copy Share Image
I noticed in the late 1990s that my friends and I were already nostalgic for the 1980s, and by the turn of… — Ernest Cline Copy Share Image
For centuries, epilepsy was the exact expectation of someone being possessed by the Devil. There was no better explanation, and it allows… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Eighteenth century American furniture and the design of the architects Greene and Greene are my special love. — Barbra Streisand Copy Share Image
With a book tucked in one hand, and a computer shoved under my elbow, I will march, not sidle, shudder or quake,… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
The turn of the century was the lowest point for the devastation of Indian culture by disease and persecution, and it's a… — N. Scott Momaday Copy Share Image
Behind the big names of twentieth-century literature there stands a shadow cabinet of writers waiting to take over once the Wind of… — Hugh Kingsmill Copy Share Image
From where many of us in the U.K. sit, American politics is hopelessly polarized. All kinds of issues get bundled up into… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
Taking photographs is generally an act of 'looking at the object, whereas 'being seen' or 'showing' is what is most interest to… — Yasumasa Morimura Copy Share Image
This is our challenge at the beginning of the twenty-first century - we need to find the courage to see our own… — Andrew Cohen Copy Share Image
Instead of sailing off into the sunset, he hopes to sail into the next century. — Dave Anderson 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
The fork was invented sometime in the fifteenth century, I believe.” “Really?” she asked. “Were you there?” His features blank, he looked… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
The big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans, or women and men, but between talkers and doers. Think… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Her death would leave me scattered, talking to chairs and pillows. Don't let us die, I want to cry out to that… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
After reading Edgar Allan Poe. Something the critics have not noticed: a new literary world pointing to the literature of the 20th… — Jules de Goncourt Copy Share Image
Do you know this Sanskrit Shloka: "Let those who are versed in the ethical codes praise or blame, let Lakshmi, the goddess… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
