Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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I'll see a celadon green room in an 18th century New Hampshire house and just fall in love. Colors stay in my head.
Barbra Streisand -
Oracle has grown and advanced because we've been consistently willing to cannibalize ourselves.
Safra A. Catz -
If children are studying the 20th century, I'm in their text books.
Paul McCartney The Beatles -
The Vedas are the greatest privilege of this century.
J. Robert Oppenheimer -
I'm afraid I am a bit of a technophobe - a nineteenth-century man caught in the twenty-first century. But there is one piece of technology that I would especially welcome: a device to automatically balance restaurant tables on all four legs so that they don't rock back and forth.
Leonard Susskind -
It was a little skirmish across a century.
Margery Allingham
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In the next century it will be the early mechanical bird which get the first plastic worm out of the artificial grass.
Bill Vaughan -
The ruins of the unsustainable are the 21st century’s frontier.
Bruce Sterling -
The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.
Henry Ward Beecher -
That Logic has advanced in this sure course, even from the earliest times, is apparent from the fact that, since Aristotle, it has been unable to advance a step, and thus to all appearance has reached its completion.
Immanuel Kant -
I feel like I've been very fortunate in that I've stuck like a burr to the dog-leg of the next generation of nerdism. I've been carried into the XXIth century on Bill Gates' pants-cuff.
William Gibson -
Turning away Turkey from the EU would be a great, long-term - a century-long - error by Europe.
William Hague
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Does it matter how long they were together that night? To lovers, an hour can last a century. But even for lovers, every hour ends.
Scott Snyder -
Our little kinsmen after rain In plenty may be seen, a pink and pulpy multitude The tepid ground upon; A needless life if seemed to me Until a little bird As to a hospitality Advanced and breakfasted.
Emily Dickinson -
'On the Twentieth Century' was always something I wanted to do because of Kristin Chenoweth.
Scott Ellis -
For the next century, we've got to put together what we so carelessly tore apart with so little concern for those who were gonna follow us. ... You've got to sound off.
Studs Terkel -
In the nineteeth century, knitting was prescribed to women as a cure for nervousness and hysteria. Many new knitters find this sort of hard to believe because, until you get good at it, knitting seems to cause those ailments. The twitch above my right eye will disappear with knitting practice.
Stephanie Pearl-McPhee -
The great wars of the 20th Century made it into the worst Century ever.
Stephen Ambrose
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These terrible sociologists, who are the astrologers and alchemists of our twentieth century.
Miguel de Unamuno -
It is what it is, and it ain't nothin' else... Everything is clearly, openly, plainly delivered.
Dan Flavin -
True success in this life comes in consecrating our lives—that is, our time and choices—to God’s purposes. In so doing, we permit Him to raise us to our highest destiny.
D. Todd Christofferson -
The century is advanced, but every individual begins afresh.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe