Century Quote by John Fowles

I find that fact and fancy look alike across the years that link the past with the present.

— Helen Keller

We are never as modern, as far ahead of the past as we like to think we are.

— Kurt Vonnegut

A seventeenth-century painting can be "modern" because the living eye finds it fresh and new. A "modern" painting can be outdated because it was…

— Marya Mannes

I don't worry whether the period is contemporary or three hundred years ago. Human beings are all alike.

— Genevieve Bujold

Those who live in the next century will see better.

— Anonymous

The century is advanced, but every individual begins afresh.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Other centuries had their driving forces. What will ours have been when men look far back to it one day? Maybe it won't be…

— Moss Hart

Historians of literature like to regard a century as a series of ten faces, each grimacing in a different way.

— Richard Ellmann

Let's forget a little about the 19th century and start looking at the 21st century.

— Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada

For the longest time, people would say to me that I didn't feel very modern, that I seemed from another time.

— Jessica Chastain

A true portrait should, today and a hundred years from today, the Testimony of how this person looked and what kind of human being…

— Philippe Halsman

“Think about it. People in the sixteenth century - not to mention in Jesus's time - didn't look like this: perfect skin, perfect hairdos,…

— Julia David Levithan