Century Quote by Samuel Goldwyn Download Open image “Let's bring it up to date with some snappy nineteenth century dialogue.” — Samuel Goldwyn ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Century Communication Dialogue Funny Nineteenth century Up to date Witty
“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 Copy Share Image
“From time to time, I open a newspaper. Things seem to be proceeding at a dizzying rate. We are dancing not on the edge… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“I believe speech to be a recent invention, and find it hard to imagine a dialogue that dates back beyond ten thousand years. And… — Emil M. Cioran Copy Share Image
I never recreate dialogue. I have often been asked by people, 'You must have made this up because this is dialogue, right?' Anything in… — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
“These are works of history about your century, the twentieth. A fine century-I look forward to the rest of it.” — Elizabeth Kostova Copy Share Image
“But the media were about to go cold turkey on the whole latter half of the twentieth century, and the shock was going to… — Sarah Graves Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“1915. The year itself looks sepia and soiled-muddied like its pictures. In the snapshots everyone at first seems timid-lost-irresolute. Boys and men squinting at… — Timothy Findley Copy Share Image
If I haven't made myself clear, this worrisome chain of events describes the game of the nineteenth century. — John Thorn Copy Share Image
“When we read Victorian novels, we are often misled into thinking how close that age is to our own; but when we encounter historical… — John Bowen Copy Share Image
“Citizens, the nineteenth century is grand, but the twentieth century will be happy. Then there will be nothing more like old history. Men will… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
If I were in this business only for the business, I wouldn't be in this business. — Samuel Goldwyn Copy Share Image
Having integrity...means being completely true to what is inside you - to what you know is right...what you feel you must do, regardless of… — Samuel Goldwyn Copy Share Image
I never put on a pair of shoes until I've worn them at least five years. — Samuel Goldwyn Copy Share Image
[when asked by his secretary if she should destroy all files that were over ten years old] Yes, but keep copies. — Samuel Goldwyn Copy Share Image
I know always that I am an outsider; a stranger in this century and among those who are still men. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
[The Dalai Lama] told me some years ago, "I've made every concession to China, and I've been as open and tolerant as I could,… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
Anybody looking for a quiet life has picked the wrong century to born in. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry. — David Hare Copy Share Image
In the nineteenth century some parts of the world were unexplored, but there was almost no restriction on travel.:; Up to 1914 you did… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Talented people can predict with great accuracy what's about to happen just a tiny bit ahead of their competitors. It might be two seconds… — Kevin Maney Copy Share Image
The world's history is a divine poem, of which the history of every nation is a canto, and every man a word. Its strains… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
The nineteenth century lynching mob cuts off ears, toes, and fingers, strips off flesh, and distributes portions of the body as souvenirs among the… — Ida B. Wells Copy Share Image
At no time in the past century has public distrust of the government been so broadly distributed across the political spectrum, as it is… — Phil Zimmermann Copy Share Image
While husbands and lovers in the stories are of all kinds, ranging from sympathetic to disgusting, women are invariably deceivers: inconstant, unscrupulous, quarrelsome, querulous,… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
The wisdom of our actions in the first three years of peace will determine the course of world history for half a century. — Henry A. Wallace Copy Share Image