Very few of the heroes of the Golden Age of American finance had much interest in the solid realities of what underlay… — Robert Heilbroner Copy Share Image
I was there when the quote-unquote golden age of musical theater was flourishing. I met everybody who worked in theater or was… — Harold Prince Copy Share Image
I empathize with those who yearn for a simpler world, for some bygone golden age of domestic and international tranquility. But for… — Shirley Hufstedler Copy Share Image
I was a child in the '60s and a teenager in the '70s, which was the golden age of film as far… — George Pelecanos Copy Share Image
I often think that those people are the happiest who know nothing at all of the world, and sitting in the little… — Elizabeth Montagu Copy Share Image
I left the golden age of documentaries to go into the golden days of the 'CBS Evening News.' You could see that… — Howard Stringer Copy Share Image
Contrary to current cynicism about past golden ages, the abstraction known as 'the intelligent layperson' does exist - in the form of… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Let us help the phoenix to rise from the ashes; let us help lay the foundation for a new renaissance; let us… — Peace Pilgrim Copy Share Image
In 1776, 1950, or now, there's never been a golden age of liberty, and there never will be. People who value freedom… — David Boaz Copy Share Image
How often has not the parallel been drawn and the golden age of the Roman Empire, when the external brilliancy of life… — Abraham Kuyper Copy Share Image
People talk about the golden age of Hollywood because of how women were lit then. You could be Joan Crawford and Bette… — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
This was a Golden Age, a time of high adventure, rich living and hard dying... but nobody thought so. This was a… — Alfred Bester Copy Share Image
I don't know how comic artists feed their families, if they do. But it's a fascinating form and so I think that… — Jules Feiffer Copy Share Image
“If the entire course of evolution were compressed into a single year, the earliest bacteria would appear at the end of March,… — Jerry A. Coyne Copy Share Image
The word civilization to my mind is coupled with death. When I use the word, I see civilization as a crippling, thwarting… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
I think the height of ridiculousness was when I was playing Elizabeth in 'The Golden Age' while preparing to start shooting 'I'm… — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
“[Adapted and condensed Valedictorian speech:] I'm going to ask that you seriously consider modeling your life, not in the manner of the… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
We were just trying to make the films that we could get made, and to push the envelope. We didn't realize how… — William Friedkin Copy Share Image
“Dr. White quotes with great confidence and absolute assurance a Papal decree issued in the year 1300 by Pope Boniface VIII., which… — James Joseph Walsh Copy Share Image
“Premillennialism. Premillennialism is any belief that Christ will come before the “thousand years.” Premillennialists believe that at his coming Christ will institute… — Jonathan Menn Copy Share Image
“The Caretaker, Sonnet What was good enough for the fiction fearing men of the past, is no yardstick for the civilized us.… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
My son tells me, 'Do you realize you are the last one? The last person who was an eyewitness to the golden… — Lauren Bacall Copy Share Image
“One thus gets an impression that civilization is something which was imposed on a resisting majority by a minority which understood how… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“Because we live in a largely free society, we tend to forget how limited is the span of time and the part… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
In the Golden Age, Rulers were unknown. In the following age Rulers were loved and praised. Next came the age When rulers… — Laozi Copy Share Image
I'm right here right now and I want now to be the Golden Age ...if only each generation would realize that the… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
The mid '70s was the golden age. A lot of things were being born on the street then, and there was a… — Tom Noddy Copy Share Image
The whole "weak in the knees" thing,which she always thought was just some idiotic expression back from the golden age of idiotic… — Maureen Johnson Copy Share Image
This is an exciting time. I believe we stand at the edge of a new age - a Golden Age - of… — Joe Lieberman Copy Share Image
“Contrary to the indoctrinated notion that reducing existence to the essentials is for half-wits and losers in this golden age of technological… — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
God does not lie in our collective past, God lies in our collective future; the Garden of Eden is tomorrow, not yetsterday;… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
We've been taught that the renaissance was one of the great golden ages of civilisation. The renaissance was not a golden age,… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
I hate the bloody highways. I hate hamburgers, I hate Greyhound buses. I'd have liked to have been in America during the… — Shane MacGowan Copy Share Image
In general, life is better than it has ever been, and if you think that, in the past, there was some golden… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
In the modern road-running era, digital photography has intersected with weekend-warrior culture, creating a golden age of social-media humblebragging. For some, the… — Mary Pilon Copy Share Image
Industrial man—a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
I think the reason the Golden Age of television is so golden is because a lot of folks are willing to let… — Hank Azaria Copy Share Image
Whenever someone says, or whenever someone harkens back to, a golden age of the U.S. - usually the '40s or '50s -… — Cole Sprouse Copy Share Image
“There was no need for a term like ‘magical thinking’ in the Golden Age of Man...there was only genuine everyday magic and… — Anthon St. Maarten Copy Share Image
I believe that in years to come, historians will see the beginning of the 21st century as the ‘golden age’ of real… — David Lereah Copy Share Image