Century Quotes

Who owns the NY Post? 20th Century Fox. Talk about vertical integration.

The Renaissance of the fifteenth century was, in many things, great rather by what it designed then by what it achieved.

No account of the Renaissance can be complete without some notice of the attempt made by certain Italian scholars of the fifteenth century to reconcile Christianity with the religion of ancient Greece.

China has lunged into the 21st century, while India is still lurching toward it.

Solidarity was the best thing which happened in the 20th century.

Since the 18th century, many Western intellectuals have predicted religion's imminent demise.

But the eighteenth century, on the whole, loathed melancholy.

I'm really convinced that our descendants a century or two from now will look back at us with the same pity that we have toward the people in the field of science two centuries ago.

I am convinced that the modular structure of the Mir will be the main trend in manned orbital stations development in the next century.

Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years.

All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.

We wish to ensure that young Africans do not feel disorientated in the century in which they live.

The 19th century was the age of Individualism; the 20th and 21st are the ages of Socialism.

The great wars of the 20th Century made it into the worst Century ever.

Totalitarianism is feudalism in the twelfth century sense of the word.

I find that in the 21st century, there's not a lot of compassion for what other people are going through or the walk that they have to walk.

The Sophists' paradoxical talk pieces and their public debates were entertainment in 5th century Greece. And in that world, Socrates was an entertainer.

I am a person of the 18th century.

Stanley Kubrick is one of the geniuses of this century.

The major task of the twentieth century will be to explore the unconscious, to investigate the subsoil of the mind.

Right up to the middle of this century all perceptions of the world around us were delivered via the bookshelf or the paper route.

At the turn of the century theatre does not have to be prescriptive.

Two thirds of a century ago, we were given a national policy. It was made to fit the conditions of the day.

Because the series is situated in the next century, and for the most part under water, there are many innovative technical gadgets. It's a kind of StarTrek. When I first came there, I was really impressed myself.

And the annual meetings of the League's Assembly are in effect official peace congresses binding on the participating states to an extent that most statesmen a quarter of a century ago would have regarded as utopian.

Any team can have a bad century.

Writing tonal music now, you are not writing into the 19th Century.

It was not till toward the end of the thirteenth century that the prose romances began to appear.

The family farm is the foundation for who we are as a Commonwealth. And for over a century, the family farm in Kentucky has centered around one crop: tobacco.

Jazz is a very accurate, curiously accurate accompaniment to 20th century America.

This young century will be liberty's century.

I think one of the important things that's happened in the course of the century is that life expectancy has doubled.

Let me state what the official IPCC prediction is: Sea levels could go up as much as three-quarters of a meter in this century, but there is a reasonable probability it could be much higher than that.

The intelligent minority of this world will mark 1 January 2001 as the real beginning of the 21st century and the Third Millennium.

We can't return to the 19th century, draw up our drawbridges and say, we don't have anything to do with each other, Germany will not work with the Netherlands, the UK will not work with France. That's ludicrous. We are condemned to work with each other.

Towards the end of the eighteenth century the industrial-financial revolution began.

There's so much in the 21st century that is stymied by bureaucracy and mediocrity and committee.

The century of airplanes has a right to its own music.

Green-tech could be the largest economic opportunity of the 21st Century.

It is a violation which has obsessed the tyrants of the twentieth century. They do not want simply to kill their opponents, but to liquidate them, to deny that they have ever existed.

I was fortunate in the last century to be in the two biggest hits film-wise, 'Godfather I' and 'Godfather II,' and 'Lonesome Dove.'

The thriller is the most popular literary genre of the 20th century.

I believe very strongly that corporations could and should be a major force for resolving social and environmental concerns in the twenty-first century.

That's really the challenge of this century, to develop spokespeople.

The United States condoned dictatorships in Latin America for much of the 20th century.

The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamt.

The Delaware Estuary has sustained a human population for thousands of years, but by the end of the 19th Century, increased population and industrialization had transformed much of the upper Estuary watershed.

A century of convulsive change leaves huge demographic gouge marks.

This is a day we have managed to avoid for a quarter of a century.

The first thing I did was a print ad for Century Plaza. I was five.

The 20th Century was the century of Aviation and the century of Globalization. The next century will be the century of Space.

Reality in our century is not something to be faced.

The five warmest years over the last century occurred in the last eight years.

Even in its third century, America is still the most meritocratic nation in the world.

The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.

I think psychology and self-reflection is one of the major catastrophes of the twentieth century.

I think Picasso was, without doubt, the greatest portraitist of the 20th century, if not any other century.

This century is going to be a very dangerous century.

Conservatives and liberals alike have been waiting for this moment for a third of a century.

Vladimir Nabokov said the two great evils of the 20th century were Marx and Freud. He was absolutely correct.

The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching has been in existence for most of this century.

At the dawn of the 19th century, the country was awakening to its enormous scope and variety.

Given the events of even the 19th century, Zionism was inevitable. Given the events of the 20th century, Israel was inevitable.

Now that copyrights can be just about a century long, the inability to know what is protected and what is not protected becomes a huge and obvious burden on the creative process.

The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.

I think there is a new awareness in this 21st century that design is as important to where and how we live as it is for museums, concert halls and civic buildings.

Ronald Reagan was the greatest president of the twentieth century.

Ragtime was a fanfare for the 20th century.

Movies were very important. The art-form of the 20th century.

A grain of poetry suffices to season a century.

Because the New Testament provides the primary historical source for information on the resurrection, many critics during the 19th century attacked the reliability of these biblical documents.

I feel I grew up in a different century than I live in. I think most of them are changes for the good.

Boxing is changing and training methods are slowly being dragged into the 21st century.

If the nineteenth century was the age of the editorial chair, ours is the century of the psychiatrist's couch.

Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

Advertising is the greatest art form of the 20th century.

'Indian policy' has now been brought down upon the American people, and the American people are the new Indians of the 21st Century.

It is the mission of the twentieth century to elucidate the irrational.