Century Quotes
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The colors of the underwater rock [are] as pale and delicate as those in the wardrobe of an 18th-century marchioness.
William Manchester -
Analysis does not owe its really significant successes of the last century to any mysterious use of sqrt(-1), but to the quite natural circumstances that one has infinitely more freedom of mathematical movement if he lets quantities vary in a plane instead of only on a line.
Leopold Kronecker
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The Vedas are the greatest privilege of this century.
J. Robert Oppenheimer -
Another goal is to look to the resources we have and to see how we could do better to plan, in a sense, for the faculty and infrastructure that we will need to study Asia well into the 21st century.
William C. Kirby -
Dead anarchists make martyrs, you know, and keep living for centuries. But absent ones can be forgotten.
Ursula K. Le Guin -
The worst part of being gay in the twentieth century is all that damn disco music to which one has to listen.
Quentin Crisp -
I don't think he'd [Andy Warhol] be that amazed because he was so driven to be the Picasso of the second half of the 20th century.
Bob Colacello -
THE old man died beneath the wheels of the twentieth century. There was nothing left but stains, bloodstains and fragments of flesh . . . And the same thing is happening to my generation.
Dambudzo Marechera
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Human women have been slapping men for being bastards for centuries. You were doing what comes naturally.
Nalini Singh -
We have to fight off the demons that have been hanging around suicide for centuries.
Judy Collins -
We decided we'd have to do something pretty drastic to make people realise that I wasn't going to parade about in ra-ra skirts for the rest of the century. And I'm not going to parade about in black evening gowns on tour!
Claire Patricia Grogan Altered Images -
She was a giant in the 20th century for women, and most significantly was a catalyst for change in the American culture. She defined the problem, and then she had the courage to do something about it.
Eleanor Smeal -
The ruins of the unsustainable are the 21st century’s frontier.
Bruce Sterling -
Children in the 21st (century) have been transformed from net producers of their own toy and play culture, to net consumers of play culture imposed by adults.
David Elkind
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Through the centuries, the history of peoples is but a lesson in mutual tolerance.
Emile Zola -
The British left intermittently erupts like a pustule upon the buttock of a rather good country. Seventy years ago it opposed mobilisation against Adolf Hitler and worshipped the other genocide, Josef Stalin. It has marched for Mao, Ho Chi Minh, Khrushchev, Brezhnev and Andropov. It has slobbered over Ceausescu and Mugabe. It has demonstrated against everything and everyone American for a century.
Frederick Forsyth -
Oh, no man knows Through what wild centuries Roves back the rose.
Walter de La Mare -
The demise of the Soviet Union was the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century.
Vladimir Putin -
In the next century it will be the early mechanical bird which get the first plastic worm out of the artificial grass.
Bill Vaughan -
We’re going to foment our own revolution. So I say to the women out there in America, let’s keep this fight going! Put on your lipstick, square your shoulders, suit up, and let’s fight for a new American revolution where women are paid equal pay for equal work, and let’s end wage discrimination in this century once and for all!
Barbara Mikulski
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The central event of the twentieth century is the overthrow of matter. ...The powers of the mind are everywhere ascendant over the brute force of things.
George Gilder -
I think it is funny that we were freer about sexuality in the 4th century B.C. It is a little disconcerting.
Angelina Jolie -
The twentieth century seems afflicted by a gigantic... power failure. Powerlessness and the sense of powerlessness may be the environmental disease of the age.
Russell Baker -
The first decade of the twentieth century was not a great time to be born black and poor and female in St. Louis, Missouri, but Vivian Baxter was born black and poor, to black and poor parents. Later she would grow up and be called beautiful. As a grown woman she would be known as the butter-colored lady with the blowback hair.
Maya Angelou