Paradoxically, the few eras of peace were times when men of war had high influence. The Pax Romana was enforced by Caesar's… — Jerry Pournelle Copy Share Image
In the second century of the Christian era, the empire of Rome comprehended the fairest part of the earth, and the most… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
A good book is fruitful of other books; it perpetuates its fame from age to age, and makes eras in the lives… — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
You can't rise as a class. You have to rise individually. It's what many of the civil rights-era people don't understand. — Alphonso Jackson Copy Share Image
In '83, not only was there no such thing as performance motion capture technology, there was no such thing as digital animation.… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
When I go to Batman movies, I always think, 'Man, I would like to be a bad guy in a Batman movie.'… — Denis Leary Copy Share Image
I think the biggest innovations of the 21st century will be at the intersection of biology and technology. A new era is… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
This, my first [bicycle] had an intrinsic beauty. And it opened for me an era of all but flying, which roads emptily… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
Science is the most exciting and sustained enterprise of discovery in the history of our species. It is the great adventure of… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
These developments - a massive transfer of land by way of inheritance and purchase, an unprecedented rise in the profitability of land… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
But re-reading Voss also demonstrates again that although White wasn't 'a nice man', and indeed was—perhaps rightly—scathingly dismissive of my and other… — Thomas Keneally Copy Share Image
In an era of stress and anxiety, when the present seems unstable and the future unlikely, the natural response is to retreat… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
At Carnegie Hall the Preservation Hall Jazz Band showed how easily it could hop from era to era. It could work like… — Jon Pareles Copy Share Image
W. Kamau Bell is in the vanguard of a new era of American comedy for an unsettling, troubling, and strangely hopeful time.… — Vernon Reid Copy Share Image
Oh, I'm nerdy about science fiction and fantasy and graphic novels and reading, and I'm nerdy about board games. My favorite board… — Billy Campbell Copy Share Image
But we must admit the possibility that continued investigation and experience will bring us ever nearer to that solemn moment, when the… — Otto Lilienthal Copy Share Image
As long as there are history books, Neil Armstrong will be included in them, remembered for taking humankind’s first small step on… — Charles Bolden Copy Share Image
Like Semmering Academy, the Grove School was a Gothic pile of bricks run by 1950s-era chalk drones, which maintained its cultural viability… — Heidi Julavits Copy Share Image
Once you get past the grand normative claims made in the West for literature, especially the novel, in the post-Christian era -… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
One more item for the delusional Miss Grundys still obtusely citing Reagan as their model of “niceness”: As governor of California, Reagan… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
While the machinery of law enforcement and indeed the nature of crime itself have changed dramatically since the Fourth Amendment became part… — William J. Brennan Copy Share Image
We've just gone through this period of years where the players in the game were at least written about as being a… — Ben Wikler Copy Share Image
He kissed me hard and I kissed him back harder, like it was the end of an era that had lasted all… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
In the 21st Century, the community of nations may see more and more of this very kind of threat that Iraq poses… — Sandy Berger Copy Share Image
Any of these Vietnam vets that have been there and know the deal, they don't feel that any Hollywood endeavor about the… — Sam Elliott Copy Share Image
We are in an era where censorship is creeping back in through the Patriot Act and where people are.. being intimidated not… — Gerald Nicosia Copy Share Image
In this era, we have more choice than any group of people ever. When you are out at night, anyone in the… — Aziz Ansari Copy Share Image
I am endeavoring to steer gymnastics out of a dead end that satisfies only a handful of short-sighted individuals with nostalgia for… — Bruno Grandi Copy Share Image
The world has never truly had to develop an ethic of interdependence rooted in our common humanity. And if we do it,… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
I had this big complex because I didn't go to college. There was a whole era where I got linked to everybody.… — Winona Ryder Copy Share Image
That era in the late '80s through the '90s was really when the music was so new, fresh, energetic, but still creative.… — Terry Gross Copy Share Image
Bring me men to match my mountains: Bring me men to match my plains: Men with empires in their purpose and new… — Sam Walter Foss Copy Share Image
With the spirit of my administration, New York City is poised for dramatic change. The era of fear has had a long… — Rudy Giuliani Copy Share Image
In a certain sense a writer is 'selected' by his subject - his subject being the consciousness of his own era. — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
It was with the advent of the Laudie London era that I realized the whole teenage epic was tottering to doom. — Colin MacInnes Copy Share Image
The Technetronic era involves the gradual appearance of a more CONTROLLED society. Such a society would be dominated by ELITE, unrestrained by… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
Lil Wayne is talented. He seems to be the dominant figure in this particular era of hip-hop. So you know, he's doing… — LL Cool J Copy Share Image
Neither our own passing nor the passing of an era is a tragedy, no matter how much we would like to think… — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
We are living through a remarkably privileged era, when certain deep truths about the cosmos are still within reach of the human… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
You can't compare eras. But drivers of each era adapt to the needs and climate of their time. There are good and… — Bernie Ecclestone Copy Share Image
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