Century Quotes · Page 23

In the last century, everybody was singing lower.

— Placido Domingo

I have been the creative literary mind of the century.

— Gertrude Stein

A single gnomic line can come to resonate with centuries of subsequent wisdom.

— Gary Saul Morson

I'm a very old-fashioned novelist. I write 19th-century novels, where a lot of rules apply.

— John Irving

A great nation is any mob of people which produces at least one honest man a century.

— H. L. Mencken

Film in the 20th century, it's the American art form, like jazz.

— Martin Scorsese

Extremists on all sides thrive, fed by the blood lust of centuries gone by.

— Nelson Mandela

Lenin, the greatest man of action in our century and at the same time the most selfless.

— Vladimir Lenin

For the past century or so that's [ Monroe Doctrine] actually been true, but it's declining very significantly.

— Noam Chomsky

I am always fascinated when people talk about 'the forging of a nation'. Most nations are forgeries, perpetrated in the last century…

— Neal Ascherson

he cut through the 21st Century Gallery, past the big plastic statues of Pluto and Mickey, animal headed gods of lost America

— Philip Reeve

I would rather be a member of this [Afrikan] race than a Greek in the time of Alexander, a Roman in the…

— Edward Wilmot Blyden

I was surprised when Nixon passed the test and showed up in heaven, but, I guess Hitler threw off the curve for…

— Lenny Bruce

Part of the challenge of being a girl living in the 21st Century, looking back, the danger is to not judge your…

— Zoe Kazan

We have the crime of the century every six months. So for people like me who enjoy, you know, taking these stories…

— John Grisham

You can't be a first-world economy in the 21st century if you're not on the path to a clean energy future.

— Wayne Swan

I’m giving you that chance now. (Stryker) It’s too late. Too many centuries have passed. There was a time when I lived…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

One of the interesting things I discovered is that in the late 19th century, painters actually had black-and-white copies made of their…

— Robert Longo

Some beliefs may be subject to such instant, brutal and unambiguous rejection. For example: no left-coiling periwinkle has ever been found among…

— Stephen Jay Gould

The Chechnya problem is a centuries-old problem. The thing is that today, fundamentalists and terrorists are exploiting those centuries-old problems to accomplish…

— Vladimir Putin

These books can't possibly compete with centuries of established history, especially when that history is endorsed by the ultimate bestseller of all…

— Dan Brown

I think that most technology is positive in the short term, and negative in the long term. I wonder, if somebody looked…

— Chuck Klosterman

From the moment of birth, when the Stone-Age baby confronts the twentieth-century mother, the baby is subjected to these forces of violence…

— R. D. Laing

The Faustian trade of the 20th century was, we got 30 years of additional life, but in return we got heart disease,…

— S. Jay Olshansky

Either the material order is the whole of being, wherein all transcendence is an illusion, or it is the phenomenal surface -…

— David Bentley Hart

A solitary American monk named Thomas Berry writes that in our relationship to nature, we have been autistic for centuries. Wrapped tightly…

— Janine Benyus

We have battled in America since the century's turn to bring to nothing any and all Christian influences and we are succeeding.…

— Kenneth Goff

The big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans, or women and men, but between talkers and doers. Think…

— Thomas Sowell

The Himalayan Glaciers on the Tibetan Plateau have been among the most affected by global warming. The Himalayas...provide more than half of…

— Al Gore

One of the things that really impressed me about Anna Karenina when I first read it was how Tolstoy sets you up…

— Elif Batuman

It has been a long road from Plato's Meno to the present, but it is perhaps encouraging that most of the progress…

— Allen Newell

Sandra Day O'Connor - once she said that there are - there were no public schools in America until the 18th century,…

— Nat Hentoff

There are only one or two geniuses every century.

— Raoul Peck

The cup of Ireland's misery has been overflowing for centuries and is not yet half full.

— Boyle Roche

We live, I think, in the century of science and, perhaps, even in the century of physics.

— Polykarp Kusch

Oh, no man knows Through what wild centuries Roves back the rose.

— Walter de La Mare

A quarter century of running a restaurant - that's a long time to do one thing.

— Charlie Trotter

I decline to accept Hebrew mythology as a guide to twentieth-century science.

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Some studies suggest that the Arctic Ocean may be ice-free by the end of the century.

— Jeff Goodell

The most valuable commodity of the 21st century will be undivided attention.

— Phil Cooke