Century Quotes - Page 4

• The picture surface recedes just as much in the 20th century as it did in the 15th. The techniques of making pictures have hardly changed.

  Howard Hodgkin

  Technique, Surface, Changed

  7 Copy quote

• The century of airplanes has a right to its own music.

  Claude Debussy

  Airplane

  "Music in History: The Evolution of an Art". Book by Howard Decker McKinney and William Robert Anderson, 1957.

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• Maybe in the 90s or possibly in the next century people will look upon the 80s as the age of masturbation, when it was taken to the limit; that might be all that's going on right now in a big way.

  Bob Dylan

  Taken, People, Age

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Advertising is the greatest art form of the 20th century.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Art, Business, Journey

  19 Copy quote

• The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.

  Gertrude Stein

  Science, Doe, Literature

  Gertrude Stein (2013). “Wars I Have Seen”, p.66, Random House

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• But the eighteenth century, on the whole, loathed melancholy.

  George Saintsbury

  Melancholy, Whole

  George Saintsbury (2012). “The English Novel”, p.162, tredition

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Anonymous sources are a practice of American journalism in the 20th and 21st century, a relatively recent practice. The literary tradition of anonymity goes back to the Bible.

  Joe Klein

  Practice, Journalism, Tradition

  7 Copy quote

• Any team can have a bad century.

  Jack Brickhouse

  Team

  22 Copy quote

• I don't believe, in the 21st century, in the balance of power system. This is a European idea of the 19th and 20th centuries.

  Joschka Fischer

  Believe, Europe, Ideas

  18 Copy quote

• I feel that I belong to the 19th century. Some composers' music is very topical. It almost says, 'This is about what I read in newspapers yesterday.' Not mine.

  Gordon Getty

  Yesterday, Newspapers, Composer

  9 Copy quote

• Just as it had taken centuries to determine the true nature of the universe, so also the search for the beginning of human life proceeded well into the 20th century.

  Wellington Mara

  Taken, Human Life, Wells

  8 Copy quote

• It appears that the present-day form of African American English is not the inheritance of the period of slavery, but the creation of the second half of the 20th century.

  William Labov

  African American, Half, Slavery

  8 Copy quote

• While the creative works from the 16th century can still be accessed and used by others, the data in some software programs from the 1990s is already inaccessible.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Data, Creative, Program

  "May the Source Be With You". www.wired.com. December 21, 2001.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Solidarity was the best thing which happened in the 20th century.

  Mikhail Saakashvili

  Solidarity, Best Things, Happened

  46 Copy quote

• It's odd being an American now. Most of us are peaceful, but here we are again, in our fifth major war of this century.

  Pete Hamill

  Love, Peace, War

  10 Copy quote

• I think that we need to get along together if we want to survive in the twenty-first century.

  Sarah Polley

  Thinking, Together, Twenties

  7 Copy quote

• Confirming John Roberts would endanger much of the progress made by the nation in civil rights over the past half century.

  Ralph Neas

  Past, Rights, Progress

  7 Copy quote

• Green-tech could be the largest economic opportunity of the 21st Century.

  John Doerr

  Technology, Opportunity, Green

  8 Copy quote

• Twenty-first century medicine must not be confined to a twentieth-century bureaucracy.

  Charles W. Pickering

  Medicine, Twenties, Firsts

  9 Copy quote

• It will take a long time, and certainly the West will remain the dominant civilization well into the next century, but the decline is occurring.

  Samuel P. Huntington

  Civilization, Aggravation, Long

  20 Copy quote

• Solar power, wind power, the way forward is to collaborate with nature - it's the only way we are going to get to the other end of the 21st century.

  Bjork

  Way Forward, Wind, Ends

  7 Copy quote

• We may seem competent, but by the end of next century there will be new deserts, new ruins.

  Edward Bond

  Insecurity, Desert, Literature

  14 Copy quote

• It is a violation which has obsessed the tyrants of the twentieth century. They do not want simply to kill their opponents, but to liquidate them, to deny that they have ever existed.

  Helen Dunmore

  Tyrants, Opponents, Want

  8 Copy quote

• In the 19th century, you had bourgeois art without politics - an almost frozen idea of what beauty is.

  Douglas Sirk

  Beauty, Art, Ideas

  7 Copy quote

• If I haven't made myself clear, this worrisome chain of events describes the game of the nineteenth century.

  John Thorn

  Games, Ties, Events

  7 Copy quote