Century Quotes - Page 8

A technical survey that systematize, digest, and appraise the mid century state of psychology.

The director was only invented in the nineteenth century. So directors have only been around for 200 year,s and playwrights have been around since Sophocles and Euripides.

Let's bring it up to date with some snappy nineteenth century dialogue.

Doubt, it seems to me, is the central condition of a human being in the twentieth century.

Marlon Brando is the most influential movie actor of the century.

Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.

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

With the opening of the second decade of the twentieth century it seemed that the stage was set for the last act in an unquestioned evolutionary drama.

How many twenty-second-century bureaucrats did it take to change a light panel? We'll have a sub-committee meeting and get back to you with an estimate.

Joseph Stalin is a titan of thought. His name is to be given to an entire century.

Human women have been slapping men for being bastards for centuries. You were doing what comes naturally.

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

The blues are like the fugue in 18th century. It's probably the music that belongs most to our time.

I want to die on your chest but not yet she wrote sometime in the 13th century of our love

I am the conscience of the 21st Century.

Before the professionalization of architecture in the nineteenth century, it was standard for an aspiring mason or carpenter to begin his apprenticeship at fourteen and to become a master builder by his early twenties.

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

It is a stark and arresting fact that, since the middle of the 20th century, humankind has consumed more natural resources than in all previous human history

Anybody in the next centuries wanting to know what it was like to be a poet in the middle of the 20th century should read Kaddish.

I reckon that women looked their best at the turn of the century.

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

But since the middle of the century in particular, the music has become very irregular in rhythm.

Until the 20th century it was generally assumed that a writer had said what he had to say in his works.

Ireland is a peculiar society in the sense that it was a nineteenth century society up to about 1970 and then it almost bypassed the twentieth century.

All the nationalists are wasms - except one, the most powerful of this century, indeed, of the entire democratic age, which is nationalism.