Century Quotes - Page 15

I don't think any other city actually has anyone who has actually documented the way they have lived or documented the city themselves. If you want to look at New York in the last half of the 20th century, into the 21st, you would look at Bill Cunningham's archives.

There are only one or two geniuses every century.

I'd been born in the wrong century, and I felt cheated.

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.

India is going to be the 21st century's Saudi Arabia in terms of human resources

Christianity has kept itself going for centuries on hope alone, and has perpetrated all manner of naughtiness in the meantime.

If the rise of European colonisation began in 18th century India, then the rallying cry of 'Jai Hind!' also signalled its end in 1947.

We live, I think, in the century of science and, perhaps, even in the century of physics.

Our century is a brutal thinker.

For centuries, Cubas greatest resource has been its people.

I have started to say "A quarter of a century" Or "thirty years back" About my own life.

Suddenly, in the early 20th century, there were thousands of men with essentially nothing to do. The farm work, as well as other work, was being handled by machines.

Frank Sinatra was the voice of the 20th-century American city.

For better or worse, in the 21st century, reality shows are the variety show.

I've had very close relationships with some twentieth-century writers.

I'm not an historian and I'm not wanting to write about how I perceive the social change over the century as a historian, but as somebody who's walked through it and whose life has been dictated by it too, as all our lives are.

I greatly enjoyed Tom Reiss's The Orientalist, for its mingled scholarship and sleuthing, and for so elegantly solving the puzzle of one of the Twentieth Century's most mysterious writers.

The four words that will define this century: The Earth is full.

I really haven't joined the 20th or the 21st century yet. Someday. I'm getting closer. I have voicemail and a fax machine.

I still prefer going to the classical writers, the modernists and the nineteenth century writers. Much of what has been done since then has just been repetition. A lot of it is marvelous but the forms haven't changed.

There were centuries when civilization had no theater.

Historical costumes from the 18th and 19th centuries look so complicated, but when you see the patterns, it's very systematic. I've always been impressed by how the patterns economize the fabric.

A woman was the property of her father or her husband and that remained true right into the twentieth century. It wasn't until 1975 that women had a guaranteed right to serve on federal juries.

For the past century or so that's [ Monroe Doctrine] actually been true, but it's declining very significantly.