Dracula Quote by Elizabeth Kostova

“To be half a century plus is wonderfully exciting, because I haven't lost any of my past, and I am free to stand on…

— Madeleine L'Engle

“This Second Century appeals to me because it was the last century, for a very long period of time, in which men could think…

— Marguerite Yourcenar

“Half a century goes by in what seems like a year. Don't waste an hour in boredom, son, or wishing for tomorrow.”

— Dean Koontz

“Let us make sure that the supreme fact of the 20th century is that they tread the same path.”

— Winston Churchill

“Modern life changes no longer century by century, but year by year, ten times faster than it ever has before...”

— Anonymous

“Is this the steal of the century or the con of the decade?”

— Frank Sonnenberg

“It is nineteenth century up-to-date with a vengeance. And yet, unless my senses deceive me, the old centuries had, and have, powers of their…

— Bram Stoker

“Today our concern must be with the future. For the world is changing. The old era is ending. The old ways will not do.”

— John F. Kennedy

“THE TWENTIETH CENTURY was a period defined by the struggle for individual political, economic, and personal liberty against various forms of oppression, and marked…

— Tom Standage

“What history gives us leaves upon us, on the contrary, the impression of decadence rather than of an advancing civilization.”

— Herman Bavinck

“It is the lineaments of the years which form the countenance of the century.”

— Victor Hugo

“It is a story of utopian dreams and belief in the future, but also one that involves a critique of modernity.”

— Sverker Sörlin