Century Quotes - Page 11

How wonderful it feels to be an artist and a woman in the twentieth century.

It has become much harder, in the past century, to tell where the garden leaves off and pure nature begins.

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

It was a little skirmish across a century.

In the tenth century the old Batavian and later Roman forms have faded away.

You know, since the 6th century, Sunni and Shia have been fighting.

Monolingualism is the illiteracy of the 21st century!

There are some centuries which - apart from everything else - in the art and other disciplines presume to remake everything because they know how to make nothing.

I'm a 21st century guy, secure in who I am.

String theory is 21 st century physics that fell accidentally into the 20th century.

Science fiction is the characteristic literary genre of the century. It is the genre that stands in opposition to literary modernism.

It's the Twentieth Century ... no more miracles.

I'm making the comeback of the century.

I feel the 21st century is another new age. Not only can we collaborate again with nature, but we have to. It's an emergency.

We cannot meet 21st Century challenges with a 20th Century bureaucracy.

Pelé is one of the few who contradicted my theory: instead of fifteen minutes of fame, he will have fifteen centuries.

Composers can do things that weren't allowed in the 17th century. Until we had composers like Igor Stravinsky and Sergei Rachmaninoff to break the rules.

And why do you think that foolishness is bad? If human foolishness had been as carefully nurtured and cultivated as intelligence has been for centuries, perhaps it would have turned into something extremely precious.

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

The sexual revolution produced cultural convulsions that were unparalleled in the 20th century.

Economics is like a church, and it fulfills the same function the church had fulfilled for centuries: the justification of the status quo.

Western music is arguably America's greatest contribution to the 20th century, cultural or otherwise.

The fork was invented sometime in the fifteenth century, I believe.” “Really?” she asked. “Were you there?” His features blank, he looked up and asked, “What, for the invention of the fork or the fifteenth century?

Ronald Reagan was the greatest president of the twentieth century.

What if miliseconds influence centuries?