Eras Quotes · Page 9

An era can be said to end when its basic illusions are exhausted.

— Arthur Miller

Now is the era of intellect, information and the Internet.

— Lech Walesa

To play a repressed gay man, I had to explore what life was like in an era of sexual repression.

— Leonardo DiCaprio

I think the Montgomery bus boycott initiated an era of self-determination.

— Joseph Lowery

There was never a golden era of American radio as far as I can tell.

— Michael Stipe

In this era of world leadership, the metal detector is the altar and the minicam may be god.

— Hugh Sidey

We have entered 'The Era of the Three-Option Woman and the No-Option Man.'

— Warren Farrell

I'd love to be in a 1910s film - the era between the corsets and losing the corsets.

— Vanessa Paradis

I'm guessing that musicals didn't make sense anymore because of the changes in the political environment that began in the late Sixties,…

— Carmen Ejogo

In my view, the critical questions in this era of mass incarceration are: What disturbs us? What seems contrary to expectation? Who…

— Michelle Alexander

It's time to end the era of mass incarceration. We need a true national debate about how to reduce our prison population.

— Hillary Clinton

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

I think the 1970s will always be the decade for me. Obviously, I grew up in that era, but the beauty standard…

— Tom Ford

[P]rogress, however, has not sufficiently infiltrated the Interior Ministry, affording protection to those who participated in the Bytyqi murders and other egregious…

— Avis Bohlen

It’s a very difficult era in which to be a person, just a real, actual person, instead of a collection of personality…

— Gillian Flynn

The soul is an embryo in the body of Man, and the day of death is the Day of awakening, for it…

— Khalil Gibran

When I first started drinking, everybody was doing it. That was before they discovered marijuana and all that. It was the late…

— Van Morrison

Furthermore, I think there was, in fact, a celebration of Passover in the era of the Judges in which the epic was…

— Frank Moore Cross

Advertising is the voice of capital. We need to do whatever we can to limit capitalist propaganda, regulate it, minimize it, and…

— Robert Waterman McChesney

Yes, we're in a protectionist era because when you have lack of domestic growth, everybody tries to unload the problem on foreigners…

— Gary Shilling

Rethinking the future: It is a profound challenge, at the end of an era of cheap oil and materials to rethink and…

— Ellen MacArthur

To take full advantage of the potential in e-business, leaders must lead differently, and people must work together differently. Let's call this…

— Rosabeth Moss Kanter

I would say the most significant difference between modern-era receivers and previous receivers is the ones who were in my generation or…

— Steve Largent

I am asking my Attorney General to create a special unit of federal prosecutors and leading state attorneys general to expand our…

— Barack Obama

If Jesus remained dead, how can you explain the reality of the Christian church and its phenomenal growth in the first three…

— Henry F. Schaefer, III

William Graebner's brilliant analysis of America's struggles over the meaning of Patty Hearst gives us not only new perspectives on the 1970s,…

— Beth Bailey

If American politics does not look to you like a joke, a tragic dance; if you have enough blindness left in you,…

— John Jay Chapman

I see that in the future, things that we have lost in the past will be recovered. There's a search for those…

— Isabel Allende

The creative process is a very collaborative process. I know it might seem that way because so much ink is spilled and…

— Steven Spielberg

A painted landscape is always more beautiful than a real one, because there's more there. Everything is more sensual, and one takes…

— Fernando Botero

It is the people who constitute the basis of Government credit. Why then cannot the people have benefit of their own gilt-edge…

— Thomas A. Edison

But I have to say this in defense of humankind: In no matter what era in history, including the Garden of Eden,…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Joan Mitchell, Joan Baez, Judy Collins - that was my mom's era.

— Cheyenne Jackson

When chaos is the god of an era, clamorous music is the deity's chief instrument.

— Ben Okri

There will be no going back to the era before September 11th, 2001, to false comfort in a dangerous world.

— George W. Bush

We're in an era in which we want to believe people have roughly equal potential. IQ gives the lie to that.

— Marty Nemko

Welcome to a new era of marketing and service in which your brand is defined by those who experience it.

— Brian Solis

I wish people didn't just think of me in the '60s. I'm not any era.

— Marianne Faithfull

The one thing I was good at was winning scholarships and prizes, and that era was coming to an end.

— Sylvia Plath

I do believe that we're in a true golden era of television, and I think it started with 'Hill Street.

— Graham Yost