Shakespeare - I was very influenced - still am - by Shakespeare. I couldn't believe that a white man in the 16th… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Occasionally, in each age and in different lands, a Buddha is born, that is to say, an enlightened person...they re-codify the ways,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Science explained people, but could not understand them. After long centuries among the bones and muscles it might be advancing to knowledge… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
No group of people has been more unjustly maligned in the twentieth century than the Puritans. As a result, we approach the… — Leland Ryken Copy Share Image
In like manner the effect of every action is measured by the depth of the sentiment from which it proceeds. The great… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The turn of the century was the age of the banker, so much so that the leading bankers of the day had… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
America cannot be America in the new century until it deals with these new questions of gender, including the trans issues, and… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
We need to prepare our kids for a 21st Century economy, and we're not doing it with our schools. — Al Franken Copy Share Image
For thirty centuries, from her sacred seat the cat looked down, and crouching at her feet, beheld the race of conquering Pharaohs… — Hippolyte Taine Copy Share Image
Our schools are, in a sense, factories, in which the raw products (children) are to be shaped and fashioned into products to… — Ellwood Patterson Cubberley Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
At the bottom there is no perfect history; there is none such conceivable. All past centuries have rotted down, and gone confusedly… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Many consider that Shostakovich is the greatest 20th-century composer. In his 15 symphonies, 15 quartets, and in other works he demonstrated mastery… — Dmitri Shostakovich Copy Share Image
It's easy to say that reducing a song to 90 seconds on "American Idol" strips off so many things, and how it's… — Alan Light Copy Share Image
There is a theory going around that the U.S.A. was and still is a gigantic Masonic plot under the ultimate control of… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
In the 20th century, artists did a great disservice to fairies. They painted fairies in a way that was shallow and trite.… — Brian Froud Copy Share Image
Perhaps it has been too uncomfortable for those with vested interests to acknowledge, but we have spent the best part of the… — Prince Charles Copy Share Image
We have a lot of long narrative poems written in the 20th century, but they're not very well known, and they're not… — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
Let me state what the official IPCC prediction is: Sea levels could go up as much as three-quarters of a meter in… — Steven Chu Copy Share Image
It is likely that America will be more important during the next century or two, but after that it may well be… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Through centuries of struggle, Jews across the world have been witnesses not only against the crimes of men, but for faith in… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
But down through the centuries, man has developed a mind that separates him from the world of reality, the world of natural… — Benjamin Hoff Copy Share Image
I think all novels are contemporary. When people went to see 'Antony-Cleopatra' at the Globe in the 16th century, they were not… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
