Century Quotes - Page 5

• A house cannot be made habitable in a day; and, after all, how few days go to make up a century.

  Bram Stoker

  House, Made, Count Dracula

  Bram Stoker (2016). “Dracula (Fidia Classics)”, p.29, Bram Stoker

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• In the last century, everybody was singing lower.

  Placido Domingo

  Singing, Lasts

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• Writing tonal music now, you are not writing into the 19th Century.

  Gavin Bryars

  Writing, 19th Century

  Klassiknet Interview, www.culturekiosque.com.

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• A century of convulsive change leaves huge demographic gouge marks.

  Todd Gitlin

  Mark, Demographics, Huge

  "A Gathering Swarm" by Todd Gitlin, www.motherjones.com. January/February 2005.

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• We may repeat the awful revolutionary history of the 20th century because of the vulnerability of social movements to demagoguery.

  Todd Gitlin

  Movement, May, Awful

  "How to be radical?". The OpenDemocracy Interview, www.opendemocracy.net. April 5, 2011.

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• The Europe we are in the process of building is the Europe of the 21st century; it's not the Europe of the 20th century.

  Jean-Pierre Raffarin

  Europe, Building, Process

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• It is more likely that more than a century will pass before we know the structure of the chemical atoms as thoroughly as we do our solar system.

  Johannes Stark

  Atoms, Structure, Chemicals

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

  Karlheinz Stockhausen

  Middle, Rhythm, Particular

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• I'd like to do a story about the medieval ages where in every scene you'd sort of feel that you were in the 12th century. That would be great to get that feeling.

  Oliver Stone

  Feelings, Age, Would Be

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• 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.

  Ralph Adams Cram

  Drama, Lasts, Stage

  RALPH ADAMS CRAM (1922). “TOWARDS THE GREAT PEACE”

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• At the turn of the century theatre does not have to be prescriptive.

  Edward Bond

  Theatre, Doe, Literature

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• As we move into the 21st century, there's what the Bible calls a 'quickening of the spirit.'

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Moving, Literature, Spirit

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• Oh, if I could but live another century and see the fruition of all the work for women! There is so much yet to be done.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Fruition, Done, If I Could

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• By all but the pathologically romantic, it is now recognized that this is not the age of the small man.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Birthday, Men, Age

  John Kenneth Galbraith (2015). “The New Industrial State”, p.39, Princeton University Press

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• I have made my living bearing witness to some of the most horrific events of the end of our century, at the end of the 20th century.

  Christiane Amanpour

  Events, Ends, Made

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• In the 21st Century I believe the mission of the United Nations will be defined by a new, more profound, awareness of the sanctity and dignity of every human life, regardless of race or religion.

  Kofi Annan

  Believe, Race, Profound

  Kofi Annan's Nobel Lecture in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 2001.

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• At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art.

  Brian Eno

  Art, Ambition, Painting

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• We find Japan a little more difficult to understand because it has proven its 20th century prowess though the ancient traditions still persist.

  Arthur Erickson

  Artist, Japan, Littles

  Arthur Erickson's Address to the Institute of Canadian Bankers, www.arthurerickson.com. October 16, 1972.

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• Few people at the beginning of the nineteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  People, Advertising, Economy

  John Kenneth Galbraith (1998). “The Affluent Society”, p.14, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We're trying to run a 21st century society and economy with 19th century Darwinian, competitive, crude ideas.

  Susan George

  Running, Ideas, Trying

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• The horror of the Twentieth Century was the size of each new event, and the paucity of its reverberation.

  Norman Mailer

  Events, Literature, Size

  A Fire on the Moon (1970) pt. 1, ch. 2

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• We all know that Social Security is one of this country's greatest success stories in the 20th century.

  Mitch McConnell

  Country, Stories, Social

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• The nineteenth century was completely lacking in logic, it had cosmic terms and hopes, and aspirations, and discoveries, and ideals but it had no logic.

  Gertrude Stein

  Discovery, Literature, Logic

  Gertrude Stein (2013). “Wars I Have Seen”, p.105, Random House

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• It's hard for me to think of others because I'm not particularly in sympathy with the music of this century.

  Alan Hovhaness

  Sympathy, Thinking, Hard

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• Universal literacy was a 20th-century goal. Before then, reading and writing were skills largely confined to a small, highly educated class of professional people.

  Hugh Mackay

  Education, Reading, Writing

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