The dilemma for early 21st century journalism is this: Who will pay for the news? — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
Metro, built in the late 20th century, is the most escalator-dependent system in the world. — Robert James Thomson Copy Share Image
Soldiers, forty centuries are looking down upon you from these pyramids. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
“It is the lineaments of the years which form the countenance of the century.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Posterity--the forlorn child of nineteenth century optimism--grows ever harder to conceive. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
the truth is, I am heartily sick of this life & of the nineteenth century in general. (I am convinced that every… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The typical old-fashioned diet (in the nineteenth century) was so bad it almost assembled modern dieting. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
...but in every century, and ever since England has been what it is, an Englishman has always felt somewhat ashamed of his… — Baroness Orczy Copy Share Image
Baseball is the very symbol, the outward and visible expression of the drive and push and rush and struggle of the raging,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Americans ... have wrought a country that has after more than two centuries yet to evidence a single year during which it… — Ward Churchill Copy Share Image
I set the fashion for a quater of a century. Why? Because i knew how to express my own time. — Coco Chanel Copy Share Image
Remember, there are only a few model preachers. We have read of only one perfect Model, and He was crucified many centuries… — Charles Henry Fowler Copy Share Image
I think people are always saying things are 'over.' Fiction has been regularly 'over' since the 19th century. — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
Something is not yet right and ripe in our human society at the beginning of the 21st century and third millennium: missing… — Robert Muller Copy Share Image
Chicago's downtown seems to me to constitute, all in all, the best-looking twentieth-century city, the city where contemporary technique has best been… — Jan Morris Copy Share Image
Because management deals mostly with the status quo and leadership deals mostly with change, in the next century we are going to… — John P. Kotter Copy Share Image
Let us not underrate the value of a fact; it will one day flower in a truth. It is astonishing how few… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The main environmental challenge of the 21st century is poverty. When you don't know where your next meal is coming from, it's… — Bjorn Lomborg Copy Share Image
If you stop and think about our history, one of the reasons we had an American century and there is an American… — Ken Mehlman Copy Share Image
White performances were always dull in comparison to the astonishing expressiveness of Black dancers. Behind the white person's inarticulate body were centuries… — Jamake Highwater Copy Share Image
By the end of the 20th century, "liberals" had again discredited themselves, to the point where they went back to calling themselves… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Nothing, indeed, could be more unlike the tone of the [Patristic] Fathers, than the cold, passionless, and prudential theology of the eighteenth… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
For eighteen centuries every engine of destruction that human science, philosophy, wit, reasoning or brutality could bring to bear against a book… — R. A. Torrey Copy Share Image
It hurt the economic historians, the Marxists and the fabians, to admit that the Ten Hour Bill, the basic piece of 19th… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Barrie and the wonderful characters he created, Lewis Carroll, even French literature, like Baudelaire or over in the States, Poe, you open… — Johnny Depp Copy Share Image
With calm, knowledgeable precision, Daniel Ziblatt wades into the adjacent swamps of federalism and nineteenth-century European history, emerging with hands full of… — Charles Tilly Copy Share Image
Remember, how often the great art of the past didn't look great at first, how often it didn't look like art at… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
There are at least two distinct meanings of 'hot': there is the, like, normal human definition which is that 'this individual seems… — John Green Copy Share Image
I've always been in love with the movies. They're the dreams of the 20th Century. — Arne Glimcher Copy Share Image
Adequate defense has been the catchword of every militarist for centuries. — Frank B. Kellogg Copy Share Image
One day men will look back and say I gave birth to the twentieth century. — Jack the Ripper Copy Share Image
The E.U. is a backward-looking project based on an economic model of the 20th century. — Jacob Rees-Mogg Copy Share Image
20th century poetry is a piñata. Images break from the earth when the poet strikes it. — Diane Glancy Copy Share Image
The forces of the nineteenth century have run their course and are exhausted. — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
The 21st century is oppressed by a crushing sense of finitude and exhaustion. — Mark Fisher Copy Share Image
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