Era Quotes

888 Era quotes by 752 unique authors

I'm a big fan of the Pre-Raphaelites. Millais, Edward Burne-Jones, and I realised recently that my music is Pre-Raphaelite in a certain way, in that… — Rufus Wainwright
Now is the era of intellect, information and the Internet. — Lech Walesa
I am obsessed with the whole Victoriana thing, the whole Jack the Ripper London era, the grayness of it, the haunted feeling of it, all… — Florence Welch
I am stuck in the 70's. I can't seem to get away from that era. — Carnie Wilson
I wish I was born in that era: dancing with Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly, going to work at the studio dressed in beautiful pants,… — Catherine Zeta-Jones
The 'looking forward' so prevalent in the late 1990s was bound to end once the new millennium began. Like some others of that era, I… — Douglas Rushkoff
The tribal community lived in the totality of circular time; the farmers of God's universe understood before and after; workers of the clockwork universe lived… — Douglas Rushkoff
How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book. — Henry David Thoreau
The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other; who has retained the spirit of infancy… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The era of procrastination, of half-measures, of soothing and baffling expedients, of delays is coming to its close. In its place we are entering a… — Winston Churchill
Television is the Antichrist, and I can assure you after only three or four generations, people will no longer even know how to fart on… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
In the era of big brains, life stories could end up any which way. Look at mine. — Kurt Vonnegut
The world of books is the most remarkable creation of man. Nothing else that he builds ever lasts. Monuments fall, nations perish, civilizations grow old… — Clarence Day
Perhaps if the year was 1447 instead of 1947 I might have hoodwinked my gentle nature by administering her some classical poison from a hollow… — Vladimir Nabokov
Mr. Cruncher... always spoke of the year of our Lord as Anna Dominoes: apparently under the impression that the Christian era dated from the invention… — Charles Dickens
What a sad era when it is easier to smash an atom than a prejudice. — Albert Einstein
I smell blood and an era of prominent madmen. — Wystan Hugh Auden
Men towering high above such political pygmies, men of refinement, of culture, of ability, are jeered into silence as mollycoddles. It is absurd to claim… — Emma Goldman
Man cannot do without beauty, and this is what our era pretends to want to disregard. — Albert Camus
I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. . .… — Abraham Lincoln
She [the Virgin Mary] was normal. She had already had other children. The Bible tells us that Jesus had two brothers. Virginity, as it relates… — Paulo Coelho
Human beings are tool-making animals. Since the prehistoric era, we have created and used a wide variety of objects. But now a significant change is… — John Twelve Hawks
Now death is uncool, old-fashioned. To my mind the defining characteristic of our era is spin, everything tailored to vanishing point by market research, brands… — Tana French
In the post-Warhol era a single gesture such as uncrossing one's legs will have more significance than all the pages in War and Peace. — J. G. Ballard
Yet Irina had once tucked away, she wasn't sure when or why, that happiness is almost definitionally a condition of which you are not aware… — Lionel Shriver

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