I am now seventy, rather glad, really, that I won't live to see the horrors to come in the 21st century. — Anne Stevenson Copy Share Image
There is an old song which asserts 'the best things in life are free.' Not true! Utterly false! This was the tragic… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Education in the key to preventing the cycle of violence and hatred that marred the 20th century from repeating itself in the… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
It is too late in the century for women who have received the benefits of co-education in schools and colleges, and who… — Judith Ellen Foster Copy Share Image
Fetish is the exploration of sex as art, and the refinement of one’s personal desires. Anything can be fetishised...There’ll be new fetishes… — Rick Castro Copy Share Image
Snow, get behind me!" Charming shouted as he leaped to his feet. "I'll handle this brute." "Billy", the teacher cried. "This is… — Michael Buckley Copy Share Image
Throughout history, knowledge rises and falls, ebbs and flows. What once was known is forgotten again, lost in time, sometimes for centuries,… — James Rollins Copy Share Image
Mark Twain gave us an insight into the life on the Mississippi at the turn of the century. — Bob Newhart Copy Share Image
In the end, the railroads made America and nanotech will make the 21st century, and that is the end of the story.… — Felix Dennis Copy Share Image
The forms of the short, written poem as they have been developed in English over the past few centuries can be usefully… — Robert Scholes Copy Share Image
If we have learned anything at all in this century, it is that all new technologies will be put to use, sooner… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
I delight to come to my bearings,... not to live in this restless, nervous, bustling, trivial Nineteenth Century, but stand or sitthoughtfully… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
And the dreams so rich in color. How else would death call you? Waking in the cold dawn it all turned to… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
A well-known magazine asks a man how they should refer to him, as Psychologist X, as Author X? He suggests man of… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
Filmmaking materials are in the hands of more people now than ever before. I would like to think that the more people… — Murray Horwitz Copy Share Image
But the beauty of Einstein's equations, for example, is just as real to anyone who's experienced it as the beauty of music.… — Edward Witten Copy Share Image
It is for Muslim scholars to study the whole history of Islamic science completely and not only the chapters and periods which… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
Barchester Towers has become one of those novels which do not die quite at once, which live and are read for perhaps… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
You got a job?" "Ignatius hasta help me at home," Mrs. Reilly said. Her initial courage was failing a little, and she… — John Kennedy Toole Copy Share Image
The Logos is a voice heard, in the head. And the Logos was the hand on the rudder of human civilization for… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I got bored with the topic; I felt this was 19th century physics. I was wondering if there was still something profound… — Stefan Hell Copy Share Image
I firmly believe, that before many centuries more, science will be the master of man. The engines he will have invented will… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
Until the Left took over American public education in the second half of the 20th century, it was generally excellent - look… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
An unreflective passion for social justice may be one of the biggest obstacles to creating peace and prosperity in the 21st century.… — Michael Strong Copy Share Image