As we move into the 21st century, there's what the Bible calls a 'quickening of the spirit.' — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
that your power of command with simple language was one of the magnificent things of our century. (from the poem: result) — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Many years later, another Marxian rephrased this as the choice between socialism and barbarity. Which of these will prevail is a question… — Eric Hobsbawm Copy Share Image
This song of the waters is audible to every ear, but there is other music in these hills, by no means audible… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
Recently I was reading somewhere or other an Italian curio-dealer who attempted to sell a 17th century crucifix to J.P. Morgan. Inside… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Patronizing the Arts is a brilliantly nuanced assessment of why universities must become art patrons. Learning from the twentieth-century university's embrace of… — Peggy Phelan Copy Share Image
Abstract paintings must be as real as those created by the 16th century Italians. — Frank Stella Copy Share Image
If you had to work in the environment of Washington, D.C., as I do, and watch those men who are so imprisoned… — Barbara Jordan Copy Share Image
'Christian' used to be a throwaway word. People didn't used to use it much. People didn't start self-labeling or getting labeled Christian… — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
I made art a philosophy, and philosophy an art: I altered the minds of men, and the colour of things: I awoke… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Earlier this week ... scientists announced the completion of a task that once seemed unimaginable; and that is, the deciphering of the… — Edward Kennedy Copy Share Image
employers sense in me a denial of their values...they fear me. i suspect that they can see that i am forced to… — John Kennedy Toole Copy Share Image
People are confusing me with a good actor when I'm just a good mimic. When someone asks me to play a nun… — Jemima Kirke Copy Share Image
Once Europe's colonial empires were sent into deep decline, thanks to World War II, America became globalization's primary replicating force, integrating Asia… — Thomas P.M. Barnett Copy Share Image
'Atlas Shrugged,' let's face it, was probably the most important novel of the 20th century that was never a film. — Albert S. Ruddy Copy Share Image
At the end of the first half-century of engine-driven flight, we are confronted with the stark fact that the historical significance of… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
The inquiry into Nature having thus been pursued nearly two thousand years theologically, we find by the middle of the sixteenth century… — Andrew Dickson White Copy Share Image
Only within the 20th Century has biological thought been focused on ecology, or the relation of the living creature to its environment.… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
Thus we have now for many centuries triumphed over nature to the extent of making certain secondary characteristics of the male (such… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I think age, if you are healthy, I think age is largely a number. My mother lived to be 101. So I'm… — Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
My heart born naked was swaddled in lullabies. Later alone it wore poems for clothes. Like a shirt I carried on my… — John Berger Copy Share Image
It has become part of the accepted wisdom to say that the twentieth century was the century of physics and the twenty-first… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
Key West is the place where your sickly house plant back in New York grows to 10 ft. It's also the place… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
This 21st century economy holds great promise for our people. But unless we give all Americans the skills they need to succeed,… — Harry Reid Copy Share Image
James Baldwin is one of the greatest, North American writers of the second half of the Twentieth Century. A prolific writer and… — Raoul Peck Copy Share Image
