Eras Quotations | Page 2

We have long passed the Victorian Era when asterisks were followed after a certain interval by a baby.

I think the era of the diva actress is coming to an end.

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 by the tick; and we creatures of the digital era must relate to the pulse.

My first Grammy wasn't even in a jazz category, but of course I was really excited. 'Rockit' was the beginning of kind of a new era for the whole hip-hop movement.

My leadership will end the Obama era and begin a new era of American prosperity.

We live in an era with no historical precedents. History is no longer useful as a tool in helping us understand current changes.

The history of apartheid-era South Africa is incredibly sad and at times infuriatingly incomprehensible.

Certainly the movies were always in the air for me. I come from the era when actors thought it was a big deal to be in the movies.

Joan Mitchell, Joan Baez, Judy Collins - that was my mom's era.

He kissed me hard and I kissed him back harder, like it was the end of an era that had lasted all of my life.

In this difficult era the most valuable commodity is the unfailing turn of the hours and how they retrieve for us the known harbor of yesterday.

A cool & diversified version of a mix tape. The BreakBeat Poets is a thorough and complete summation of Golden Era writers who continue to build the scene of literary and performance poetry.

I loved my kids. And I loved my house, and I loved a lot of things about my life in the 1950s. But there were a lot like me in that era, very overeducated housewives.

The big studio era is from the coming of sound until 1950, until I came in I came in at a crux in film, which was the end of the studio era and the rise of filmmaking.

Aviation seems almost a gift from heaven to those Western nations who were already the leaders of their era, strengthening their leadership, their confidence, their dominance over other peoples.

The war is ending, for the first time in the history of relations between Moscow and Grozny, and the era of peace is starting.

I would consider all of the legislation which I have supported meaningless if I were to sit idly by, silent, during a period which may go down in history as an era when we permitted the curtailment of our liberties.

One constant among the elements of 1914—as of any era—was the disposition of everyone on all sides not to prepare for the harder alternative, not to act upon what they suspected to be true.

We stand now at the turning point between two eras. Behind us is a past to which we can never return ...

Someday I will tell my grandchildren that I lived in the era when OK was abbreviated to K.

The ultimate pitch for an era of short attention spans begins with a single word - and doesn't go any further.

I was never going to get any sleep. I was going to have Alice in Wonderland conversation after Alice in Wonderland conversation until I died of exhaustion. Here, in the restful, idyllic Victorian era.

When eras die, their legacies Are left to strange police. Professors in New England guard The glory that was Greece.

Not every President is a great speaker. Not every President is a great thinker. But in the modern era, every single President is a master of one thing: eye contact.

Biomimicry is innovation inspired by nature. In a society accustomed to dominating or 'improving' nature, this respectful imitation is a radically new approach, a revolution really. Unlike the Industrial Revolution, the Biomimicry Revolution introduces an era based not on what we can extract from nature, but on what we can learn from her.

Nothing so dates an era as its conception of the future.

We're going through this super-uptight era, which I think comes entirely from literacy, actually. It's the result of machines that were designed as word processors being used for making music.

Queen had its time and place, and at the moment I'm not concentrating on that era.

When chaos is the god of an era, clamorous music is the deity's chief instrument.

It was a great time to grow up in Chicago. It was the mid-80s, and we had the 85 Bears and the Michael Jordan era.

An era can be said to end when its basic illusions are exhausted.

We are at the beginning of a new era of immunochemistry, namely the production of "antibody based" molecules.

It is scary to live in the Obama era with its use of government to suppress dissent

The stage has been reached where our armed forces should withdraw beyond the borders It's not the end. It's the start of a new era.

With modern recording techniques, and living in the Pro Tools era, the process gets really drawn-out, and it can become painstaking.

I grew up I guess you'd say in the cassette era.

Notorious B.I.G. was one of my favorites. I started getting into hip-hop around the Bad Boy era.

When I grew up in the '60s, your hair had to be straight and you had to be skinny and have no boobs, and it was like not my era.

Youth is not the era of wisdom; let us therefore have due consideration.

Well, I mean, the original is certainly the jump-off, it certainly is what it is, you know, I grew up around that era so I watched all those shows. The basic concept is there, it's just a different movie. Totally different actors, different filmmakers, different script, but same concept.

Valentines Day itself, like most holidays in the modern era, has been heavily influenced by commercialism that focuses on the appeal of romantic fantasies.

The album feels like a new era for me -- emotionally, lyrically, sonically. It feels fresh, it feels new. It's still me. It's still stuff that fans know and love but it's a new chapter 100 percent.

An era that I specifically like is sort of late 50's, early 60's. I guess mid 50's too. I like these types of films that deal with post WWII America and this more complex leading man that kind of emerges from that.

... we're moving into an era when we will define ourselves more by the technologies we refuse than the ones we accept.

The work of art expresses precisely those things which do not die. It must do so, however, in a form that bears witness to the artist's own era.

My dad's era believed that there was something noble in being a good guy - the kind of guy that lived straight and narrow, told the truth, and stood up for what he believed was right.

During the Soviet era, private ownership was a crime punishable with up to five years in prison.

I hate to say it, but she's trying to copy Miley [Cyrus] and Miley's trying to copy her. The era of Madonna is over.

A good book is fruitful of other books; it perpetuates its fame from age to age, and makes eras in the lives of its readers.

You think I live in the past. You don't understand that I actually change with every era, I always have as best I can

I am extremely proud of everything I have achieved as a cricketer, and I have found myself very fortunate to play in an era when some of English cricket's greatest moments have occurred.

The history of our era is the nauseating and repulsive history of the crucifixion of the procreative body for the glorification ofthe spirit.

We Americans entered a new phase in our history - the era of integration - in 1954.

...we live in an era of terrible preoccupation with presentation and interpretation, one in which relations between who someone is and what he believes and how he "expresses himself" have been thrown into big time flux.

I love the silent era because you can see the rules being written, the grammar of film being created. Most of my films are in some way love letters to the silent era.

Design, in its broadest sense, is the enabler of the digital era.

I want to be the greatest player ever in my era.

I tried to go to Kosovo to establish a statue to commemorate those who died during the wars, and to discuss moving on, so we could move into a new era. But I was banned from there.

We live in an era where masses of people come and go across a hostile planet, desolate and violent. Refugees, emigrants, exiles, deportees. We are a tragic contingent.

Obviously we're celebrating a 36-year legacy on ABC and the end of an era, but we're also celebrating the start of a new era with this great property on ESPN. It's a bit of mixed emotions.

It's time to end the era of mass incarceration. We need a true national debate about how to reduce our prison population.

Motown, Motown, that's my era. Those are my people.

The outlook of the world today is for the greatest era of commercial expansion in history. The rest of the world will become better customers.

I think too many artists from my era tend to just stamp out a record.

People ask me what my favorite WWE era is. It's now, because I'm living it.

It's amazing when you find a photo of your grandparents when they were young because it's black and white and the care that they put into their appearance back then was so grown up and specific to that era.

I want to beat the best out there and whoever is considered the top fighters of my era.

Life is so absurd now that it is almost impossible to be a satirist in this era.

Conservative think tanks like the Heritage Foundation and Cato Institute have criticized Bush for his big increases in spending, which far exceed those of the Clinton era.

The era of ‘yes’ has begun.

There is this false perception that comedians can never be serious. It's like from like the era of court jesters.

Of all the great heavyweights of modern times, Joe Frazier was the unluckiest. He had to share an era with both Ali and Foreman.

Enron and 9/11 marked the end of an era of individual freedom and the beginning of personal responsibility.

Im a storyteller; that is what I do. And Im particularly interested in history; and in history of a certain era. But what is interesting for me is how many, how many things you see repeated.

We're living in an era where word-of-mouth is on steroids,

I wouldn't change anything that happened.That's the way the game was played when I was coming up. The game is different now. It's just a by-product of the era.

Our future begins on January 1 1999. The euro is Europe's key to the 21st century. The era of solo national fiscal and economic policy is over.

When you listen to most of the records that really had an impact on you, they always seem to be from a different era.

If this is how science operates, by silencing those who express opposing views rather than by debating with them, then science is dead and we are in a new era of the Inquisition.

We are in an era where censorship is creeping back in through the Patriot Act and where people are.. being intimidated not to speak about what we should be speaking about,.

On 5 September, when the TUC unanimously rejected wage restraint, it was the end of an era, and all the financiers, all the little gnomes in Zürich and other finance centres about whom we keep on hearing, had started to make their dispositions in regard to sterling.

The concept of unlimited expansion that alone can fulfill the hope for unlimited accumulation of capital, and brings about the aimless accumulation of power, makes the foundation of new political bodies - which up to the era of imperialism always had been the upshot of conquest - well-nigh impossible.

In the post-individualistic era, science and spirituality will become allies, and human beings will realize a vast potentiality now only dimly felt.

We are the great grassroots campaign of the modern era, built from mousepads, shoe leather and hope.

In the new era, thought itself will be transmitted by radio.

The coming of the wireless era will make war impossible, because it will make war ridiculous.

Because you know, we live in an era now where everything is pushed. We live in a push world where everything gets pushed to you. It's like, I don't have to wait for you to send it to me, I'll go get it off the Internet. So it was difficult to be back in that sort of situation. But it was cool.

Turning points in human consciousness occur when new energy regimes converge with new communications revolutions, creating new economic eras.

If we go back to the heyday of that era I think we will see replicated again the extraordinary human damage that we as a nation have suffered from

You're only as smart as your ERA.

In my era of wrestling, there were no guaranteed contracts, so it was inherent that you draw the crowd in to make money.

In this era of affluence and of permissiveness, we have, in all but cultural areas, bred a nation of overprivileged youngsters, saturated with vitamins, television and plastic toys.

I kept quiet, but the knowledge gathered like a storm. I could see the future: My father wasn't coming back. And this one fact seemed to point to other facts and others still: Love frays and humans fail, time passes, eras end.

One thing that Chairman Mao did was to end the appalling foot binding of women. That alone justifies the Mao Tse-tung era.

Sinatra was pretty astute - he used the best songwriters around, he used all the resources, he covered every song from the era basically.

We have entered an era vibrating with the din of small voices. Every citizen can be a reporter, can take on the powers that be.

You see him coming in with an 0-2 record and a 5 ERA and you wonder, 'How? How's that possible?

In a certain sense a writer is 'selected' by his subject - his subject being the consciousness of his own era.

Women in the postfeminist era, while supposedly strong and commanding and equal to men in every sense, looked weaker and smaller than ever before.

It's not my place to say how good I was because the thing is, every champion from every era is a great fighter and it's up to one person's interpretation to who is actually the best.