The United States has been a global power since late in the 19th century. — Robert M. Gates Copy Share Image
Ring around the rosie. A pocket full of posie. Ashes ashes, we all fall down. Some people say that this poem is… — Scott Westerfeld Copy Share Image
As centuries of dictators have known, an illiterate crowd is the easiest to rule; since the craft of reading cannot be untaught… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
It was an odd situation. For a century and a half, men got rid of their own hair, which was perfectly comfortable,… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
If history is any guide at all, it seems to me to suggest that there is a final theory. In this century… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
Intellectuals can tell themselves anything, sell themselves any bill of goods, which is why they were so often patsies for the ruling… — Lillian Hellman Copy Share Image
We are more gullible and superstitious today than we were in the Middle Ages, and an example of modern credulity is the… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
On the whole, the psychological work of the last quarter of the nineteenth century emphasized the study of consciousness to the neglect… — Edward Thorndike Copy Share Image
Every author has the whole past to contend with; all the centuries are upon him. He is compared with Homer, Dante, Shakespeare,… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
The war in Afghanistan, the first war of the twenty-first century, shows the United States doing what it wants to do, not… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
The improvement of forest trees is the work of centuries. So much more the reason for beginning now. — George Perkins Marsh Copy Share Image
Evangelicals have to face it (like Roman Catholics of 16th century had to): Increasingly, our version of Good News is neither news… — Samir Selmanovic Copy Share Image
What Marie Antoinette was to eighteenth-century France, Mary Pickford is to twentieth-century America. — Frank Crowninshield Copy Share Image
Do you ever want to go home?' I asked Paul. He brushed an ash from my face. 'It's the century of the… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
I got myself into a lovely little shall we say controversy with André Breton, by pointing out that the discipline of spontaneity,… — Virgil Thomson Copy Share Image
The fundamental landscape of biology is undergoing a major upheaval, much as it did in the first decades of the 20th Century.… — Michael R. Rose Copy Share Image
Beneath the surface of states and nations, ideas and language, lies the fate of individual human beings in need. Answering their needs… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
It is easy to be mindless in America, because dreaming of and living for a better tomorrow is the American way. ...… — Barbara De Angelis Copy Share Image
As religion is now practiced and science is now practiced, there is no intersection between the two. That is for certain. And… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I'm using myself as a typical 20th century model as I'm trying to make sense out of the world around me. — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
It is striking how much more seriously we are likely to be taken after we have been dead a few centuries. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
The constant influx of new cultures, new ideas and new ways of looking at old problems is a big part of the… — Gary Locke Copy Share Image
No one had a better sense of luxury than Coco Chanel, She really had the spirit of the 20th Century. — Diana Vreeland Copy Share Image
Then I reflect that all things happen, happen to one, precisely now. Century follows century, and things happen only in the present.… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
