France has lived a long time - eight or nine centuries - and yet art in France, too, was derivative up until… — Raoul Dufy Copy Share Image
We must stitch up what has been torn apart, render justice imaginable in the world which is so obviously unjust, make happiness… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
As for the once-revolutionary 'Agon,' after more than half a century, its lessons and revelations have been so absorbed into the language… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
Basically, I think 21st century conservation is moving toward preserving ecosystems by dealing with the needs of people. — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
It's okay for Christians throughout centuries to exterminate races and for their priests to rape little kids throughout decades, but trying to… — Glenn Danzig Copy Share Image
There is plenty of work to do, but big business isn't investing in rebuilding a green economy for the 21st century. Instead,… — Kshama Sawant Copy Share Image
A movement got started for common schools, and by the end of the 19th century, 91 percent of Americans could read and write. — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
There are, of course, always painters whom I admire and find fascinating. I've often thought, 'Goodness, if I could paint like the… — Margrethe II of Denmark Copy Share Image
No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I had never read Victorian novels before going overseas. I read a handful of authors, but I had not immersed myself in… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
Once in a century a man may be ruined or made insufferable by praise. But surely once in a minute something generous… — John Masefield Copy Share Image
The feminist anti-pornography movement, no less than the feminist movement of a century ago, encourages the assumption that male and female sexuality,… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Violence is not the answer, it doesn’t work any more. We are at the end of the worst century in which the… — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
A century that began with children having virtually no rights is ending with children having the most powerful legal instrument that not… — Carol Bellamy Copy Share Image
When you undergo a visionary experience, what you are really doing is blowing your socially conditioned, 20th century, hive mind and allowing… — Steve Kubby Copy Share Image
...History it seemed could be something entirely different a splash of blood whose agony didn't fade overnight or over centuries. — Elizabeth Kostova Copy Share Image
One could look over the past century and ask oneself, has the increased longevity been good, bad or indifferent? — Leon Kass Copy Share Image
I want to build a clock that ticks once a year. The century hand advances once every one hundred years, and the… — Danny Hillis Copy Share Image
The United States has been a Pacific nation for over two centuries. That's not going to change. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Test centuries is one such records which doesn't look like being surpassed — Sunil Gavaskar Copy Share Image
The element of heroic maleness had always been present in the concept of the artist as one who rides the winged horse… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
We cannot escape our destiny, nor should we try to do so. The leadership of the free world was thrust upon us… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
For the first time in its history, Western Civilization is in danger of being destroyed internally by a corrupt, criminal ruling cabal… — Carroll Quigley Copy Share Image
There are two things in particular that it [the computer industry] failed to foresee: one was the coming of the Internet(...); the… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
I believe sans serif typefaces - today upheld as models of neutrality and legibility - were called "Grotesques" in the 19th century… — Michael Bierut Copy Share Image
They [the Templars] had read Avicenna, and they were not ignorant, like the Europeans. How could you live alongside a tolerant, mystical,… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
In the 19th century, if you had a basement lab, you could make major scientific discoveries in your own home. Right? Because… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
Let's face it: professing a deep interest in movies, the absolutely dominant global art form of the last century, is at this… — David Rakoff Copy Share Image
India and China are improving by leaps and bounds and it will be their chess players who will lead the revolution of… — Judit Polgar Copy Share Image
Writing allows me the time to travel and see the world, which is what I always wanted to do. I'd really like… — Alan Dean Foster Copy Share Image
With the myriad of new Bible translations on the market today, few stand out. The ESV is one of the few, and… — Daniel B. Wallace Copy Share Image
I'm very happy in my 18th century worker's cottage in Kent and playing my music for the dog-walkers paused outside. — Christian McKay Copy Share Image
When I was sixteen and knew nothing about art, I sat through almost six hours of Andy Warhol’s Empire. I did not… — Uta Barth Copy Share Image
The Church [in the 14th century] gave ceremony and dignity to lives that had little of either. It was the source of… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
Anonymous sources are a practice of American journalism in the 20th and 21st century, a relatively recent practice. The literary tradition of… — Joe Klein Copy Share Image
Poor children live in a particularly dangerous world--an urban world of broken stair railings, of busy streets serving as playgrounds, of lead… — Kenneth Keniston Copy Share Image
Knowing of how to make use of online tools without being overloaded with too much information is, like it or not, an… — Howard Rheingold Copy Share Image
In the 19th century inhumanity meant cruelty; in the 20th century it means schizoid self-alienation. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
With the end of the Victorian era, we passed into what I feel I must call the terrible 20th century — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
No matter how brilliant, amusing or intelligent the creek of abstraction, Dadaism, Minimalism and Conceptualism of the 20th century was, it didn't… — Mark Kostabi Copy Share Image
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