Eras Quotes · Page 9

The period after the First World War was an extremely different time, so that Sherlock Holmes would have been a different person…

— Laurie R. King

Let us hope that the advent of a successful flying machine, now only dimly foreseen and nevertheless thought to be possible, will…

— Octave Chanute

Every period ruled by mystics was an era of stagnation and want, when most men were on strike against existence,

— Ayn Rand

The Sixties were an era of extreme reality. I miss the smell of tear gas. I miss the fear of getting beaten.

— Hunter S. Thompson

We are living through a remarkably privileged era, when certain deep truths about the cosmos are still within reach of the human…

— Brian Greene

People link the 80s to that very liberal theme, growing up in a very liberal world, having ideals or not having ideals.…

— Sam de Jong

Although it is tempting to imagine an ancient era innocent of biochemical weaponry, in fact this Pandora's box of horrors was opened…

— Adrienne Mayor

The Olympics have been with the world since 776 B.C., and have only been interrupted by war, especially in the modern era.

— Bill Toomey

You see him coming in with an 0-2 record and a 5 ERA and you wonder, 'How? How's that possible?

— Mark Buehrle

AB de Villers is the most complete player of the Modern Era.

— V. V. S. Laxman

Marketing automation is the technology that propels your business into a new era of relationship based marketing with quantifiable results. When powerful…

— Jon Miller

Just because we live in a Christian era doesn't mean we're all Christian, necessarily.

— Oliver Stone

When AIDS was at its most brutal, frightening, my-God-what-are-we-going-to-do era, that was when vampire stories and stories about blood and trust swept…

— Susie Bright

As far as benefits to reading historical novels, there are several! For one thing, you learn about life in another era. Secondly,…

— Mary Pope Osborne

“Flirting with the dark side has always had it's fascination. Because you learn, and there's wisdom there. Escpecially with the post-Freudian era…

— Edward Herrmann

For children, the era of mass incarceration has meant a tremendous amount of family separation, broken homes, poverty, and a far, far…

— Michelle Alexander

Conservative think tanks like the Heritage Foundation and Cato Institute have criticized Bush for his big increases in spending, which far exceed…

— Jim Cooper

Physics has entered a remarkable era. Ideas that were once the realm of science fiction are now entering our theoretical — and…

— Lisa Randall

I see some parallels between then [Lincoln's era] and now. Certainly the division of ideologies between two parties, the Democratic Party and…

— Steven Spielberg

Does the U.S. Constitution stand for anything in an era of government excess? Can that founding document, which is supposed to restrain…

— Cal Thomas

In an era of global abundance, our world has the resources to reduce dramatically the massive divides that persist between rich and…

— Kofi Annan

The Victorian era is the sexiest age for me, but I also like a woman in a pair of jeans.

— Dylan McDermott

What is required of us now is a new era of responsibility - a recognition, on the part of every American, that…

— Barack Obama

The reason why so many of my photographs in the book were taken in stairwells and corridors was that that was the…

— Derek Ridgers

[Dalton] Trumbo wrote this incredible pamphlet, almost on the level of Tom Paine's 'Common Sense,' called 'The Time of the Toad.' It's…

— Jay Roach