Some of the best auditions I've ever had have been when my agent called and said, 'They want you 20 minutes ago,… — Billy Campbell Copy Share Image
So familiar are eggs to us, however, that in the eighteenth century they were referred to as cackling farts, on the basis… — Mark Forsyth Copy Share Image
The human imagination may be the most elastic thing in the universe, stretching to encompass the millions of dreams that in centuries… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
While it is unlikely that poetry or art shall eliminate the reality of war in the twenty-first century, it is thrilling to… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
Ah, how wonderful is the advent of the Spring!—the great annual miracle.... which no force can stay, no violence restrain, like love,… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Autocratic leadership existed in Russia for many centuries, changing only its ideological colors and method of legitimization. — Lilia Shevtsova Copy Share Image
The 21st century will be quite unlike the preceding two centuries, in which power was located in Europe and the U.S., and… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
The poetical tendency of the present and of the preceding century has been divided in a manner singularly curious. One loud and… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
“Until then I had thought each book spoke of the things, human or divine, that lie outside books. Now I realized that… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
This deliberately nurtured hatred then spreads to all that is alive, to life itself, to the world with its colors, sounds, and… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Detachment is the prerogative of an elite; and as the dandy is the nineteenth century's surrogate for the aristocrat in matters ofculture,… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
In Europe, populism is sort of a dirty word, but we have this wonderful history of populism in America, including the abolitionist… — Zephyr Teachout Copy Share Image
We must show new energy in fighting back an old evil. Nearly two centuries after the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade,… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
The reality is that we are going to have problems with water in this century. And the fact that we are going… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
The Bible tells us there will be a time for peace. But, so far in this century, mankind has failed to find… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The cave art of Madison Avenue has been by far the most innovative and educative art form of the twentieth century. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
A three billion year old planet floating in the vast universe with mountains, seventy percent seas and oceans, fertile lands, immense forests,… — Robert Muller Copy Share Image
Crimes of the century differ from the garden variety of murders. They involve wealth, celebrity and powerful attorneys, and live on for… — Armand Deutsch Copy Share Image
We work harder and we earn less. Income inequality is at the highest point in over a century. While American capitalism never… — Mario Cuomo Copy Share Image
We are in the twentieth or the twenty-first century, but all the thinking, if you speak to one of those people keen… — Jean-Luc Godard Copy Share Image
What is time? The shadow on the dial, the striking of the clock, the running of the sand, day and night, summer… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
A seventeenth-century painting can be "modern" because the living eye finds it fresh and new. A "modern" painting can be outdated because… — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
I am proud to represent the capital of Kerala, a state that in so many ways is a trailblazer for India's progress,… — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
At the beginning of the twentieth century barbarism can throw off its gentle disguise, and burn a man at the stake as… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich Copy Share Image
This was a Golden Age, a time of high adventure, rich living and hard dying... but nobody thought so. This was a… — Alfred Bester Copy Share Image
I think we crushed ourselves down over the centuries. Buried ourselves under greed and hate and whatever other sins we could find… — Isaac Marion Copy Share Image
More than ever before, in our country, this is the age of the individual. Endowed with the accumulated knowledge of centuries, armed… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Well, biology today as I see it has an amiable look - quite different from the 19th-century view that the whole arrangement… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
Well, it's such a record that you can only compare it with Bob Beamon's long-jump world record set in the 1968 Olympics… — Sunil Gavaskar Copy Share Image
We are so utterly ordinary, so commonplace, while we profess to know a Power the Twentieth Century does not reckon with.... Oh… — Jim Elliot Copy Share Image
The number of those identifying as Aborigine in Tasmania rapidly rose in the late 20th century. — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
The Breed never dies. Sapper, Buchan, Dornford Yates, practitioners in that school of Snobbery withViolence that runs like a thread of good-class… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
Half of all species on Earth could disappear by the end of the century because of our collective impact. — Louie Psihoyos Copy Share Image
movies have mirrored our moods and myths since the century began. They have taken on some of the work of religion. — Jennifer Stone Copy Share Image
Science is an attempt, largely successful, to understand the world, to get a grip on things, to get hold of ourselves, to… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The paintings that laughed at him merrily from the walls were like nothing he had ever seen or dreamed of. Gone were… — Irving Stone Copy Share Image
A core challenge for Australia is - how do we best prepare ourselves for the Asia Pacific century - to maximise the… — Kevin Rudd Copy Share Image
The increased abstraction in mathematics that took place during the early part of this century was paralleled by a similar trend in… — Keith Devlin Copy Share Image
Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the… — G. M. Trevelyan Copy Share Image
Over half a century on and they're still complaining about it. Compare it to the fact that Garden State didn't win an… — Zach Braff Copy Share Image
