The book itself is a curious artifact, not showy in its technology but complex and extremely efficient: a really neat little device,… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
The same tantalizing guile and sublime skill....[The series is] reinforced in its claim to be one of the major literary works of… — Kevin Myers Copy Share Image
[on the screenplay for "When Harry Met Sally"] It struck me that the movies had spent more than half a century saying,… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
Few can contemplate without a sense of exhilaration the splendid achievements of practical energy and technical skill, which, from the latter part… — E. F. Schumacher 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
Nothing I study makes me think we will survive this century. And yet why am I so happy? Because it's not too… — Patch Adams Copy Share Image
Nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century exponents of prefabrication were certain it would supplant age-old traditions of individualized design and handcrafted construction. The building art… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
The trouble with Christianity was that by about 150, there were hardly any Jews left in the Christian church, and so from… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
As we begin the 21st century, the Hubble space telescope is providing us with information about as yet uncharted regions of the… — Floyd E. Bloom Copy Share Image
The blessing of the state, implicit or explicit, has been crucial to every twentieth-century information empire. — Tim Wu Copy Share Image
Born and raised in Paris, I am deeply attached to my city; we almost have half a century of love story together,… — Christian Louboutin Copy Share Image
It is the retention by twentieth-century, Atom-Age men of the Neolithic point of view that says: You stay in your village and… — Carleton S. Coon Copy Share Image
For many people during many centuries, mankind's history before the coming of Christianity was the history of the Jews and what they… — John Roberts Copy Share Image
For Star Trek proves, as faulty as individual episodes could be, is that the much-maligned common man and common woman has an… — Gene Roddenberry Copy Share Image
The twentieth century provides little or no evidence in any corner of the globe to support the contention that religion causes most… — Michael Medved Copy Share Image
Our age is pre-eminently the age of sympathy, as the eighteenth century was the age of reason. Our ideal men and women… — Frances E. Willard Copy Share Image
Diane Arbus is one of the most mysterious, enigmatic, and frighteningly daring artists of the 20th century. Her work emerged from a… — Steven Shainberg Copy Share Image
America was founded by intellectuals, a rare occurrence in the history of modern nations We might even say that America was founded… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
It is time to understand the environment for what it is: the national security issue of the early twenty-first century. — Robert D. Kaplan Copy Share Image
To be happy you have to fulfill your nature. That's what Aristotle taught so many centuries ago, that the road to happiness… — Charles Koch Copy Share Image
The ills and disorders of the 14th century could not be without consequence. Times were to grow worse over the next fifty-odd… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
Here we are in the century of information, that is to say the unformed. Every kind of literature will be journalistic, with… — Julien Torma Copy Share Image
God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion... We have had thirteen States independent for eleven years. There… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Our CO2 mixes with everyone else's within a year, then hangs around for centuries like a shroud. — William H. Calvin Copy Share Image