Century Quotations | Page 9

As far as I can see, the history of experimental art in the twentieth century is intimately bound up with the experience of intoxification.

Beatles was 20th-century folksong in the framework of capitalism; they couldn't do anything different if they wanted to communicate within that framework.

Women have been kicking ass for centuries.

If constellations had been named in the 20th century, I suppose we would see bicycles.

I set the fashion for a quater of a century. Why? Because i knew how to express my own time.

He who anticipates his century is generally persecuted when living, and always pilfered when dead.

She opened up a book of poems and handed it to me written by an Italian poet from the 13th century and every one of them words rang true and glowed like burning coal pouring off of every page like it was written in my soul from me to you.

History is full of surprises, and the next century will be no exception.

I think as the century closes draws to a close and we look back on public figures, ... we realize what a giant Eleanor Roosevelt was.

Over the Rainbow, ... Song of the Century

What Galileo and Newton were to the seventeenth century, Darwin was to the nineteenth.

The 20th century was a test bed for big ideas - fascism, communism, the atomic bomb.

The 20th century was the century of war and blood. The 21st century is the century of dialogue.

This is the century of fear.

At times I feel myself overtaken by an immense tenderness for these people around me who live in the same century.

The real 19th century prophet was Dostoevsky, not Karl Marx.

the late twentieth century will go down in history, i'm sure, as an era of pharmaceutical buffoonery.

What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.

Boy, can't you feel the ghosts of a century and a half of great thinkers, especially Twain?

Foolish men imagine that because judgement for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgement for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as

The nation lost a courageous woman and a true American hero. A half century ago, Rosa Parks stood up not only for herself, but for generations upon generations of Americans.

In the seventeenth century a dissociation of sensibility set in.

In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead; in the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead

Civilization is hoped together, brought under a rule, under the semblance of peace by manifold illusion, but Man's life is thought, and he, despite his terror, cannot cease, ravening through century after century ravening, raging and uprooting, that

Mozart, the last chord of a centuries-old great European taste.

After Buddha was dead, his shadow was still shown for centuries in a cave.

It never occurred to any Enlightenment figure in the eighteenth century that law was not preferable to man.

The Vedas are the greatest privilege of this century.

We had much freer trade in the 19th century. We have much less globalization now than we did then.

Custom is petrification, nothing but dynamite can dislodge it for a century.

In the 21st Century, the capacity to communicate will almost certainly be a key human right.

I have patience for centuries in me and will live as though my time were very big.

Through the centuries, we faced down death by daring to hope.

Through aisles of long-drawn centuries my spirit walks in thought.

Proust was the greatest novelist of the twentieth century, just as Tolstoy was in the nineteenth.

Soldiers, forty centuries are looking down upon you from these pyramids.

Soldiers! Forty centuries behold you!

I invented nothing new, I simply assembled the discoveries of other men behind whom there was centuries of work.

Titles are too "thin" for the nineteenth century.

The century is advanced, but every individual begins afresh.

The passages of Shakespeare that we most prize were never quoted until within this century.

Nor sequent centuries could hitOrbit and sum of Shakespeare's wit.

Direct thought is not an attribute of feminity. In this, women are now centuries behind man.

It would take centuries and he must grow and grow and grow, but he was in no hurry--he grokked that Eternity and the ever-beautifully-changing Now were identical.

The Bible tells us there will be a time for peace. But, so far in this century, mankind has failed to find it.

I think the next century will be the century of complexity.

If you can read in the 21st century you own the world.

Great buildings, like great mountains, are the work of centuries.

The 19th century belonged to England, the 20th century belonged to the U.S., and the 21st century belongs to China. Invest accordingly.

Another century and there will not be a Bible on earth!

...the high roads of the future will be clear, not only for us but for all, not only for our time but for a century to come.

Truth takes no account of centuries.

With the end of the Victorian era, we passed into what I feel I must call the terrible 20th century