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When I'm dead and gone, people will know that the twenty-first century was started by Alexander McQueen.
I am now seventy, rather glad, really, that I won't live to see the horrors to come in the 21st century.
The most revolutionary invention of the Nineteenth Century was the artificial sterilization of marriage.
Society cannot exist without etiquette ... It never has, and until our own century, everybody knew that.
As a historical legacy, the Kashmir conflict has been an outstanding issue for more than half a century.
We've seen in the last half century an incredible shift. This is just an extraordinary time to be alive.
...the century's most radical vice... the notion that human beings can be shoveled around like concrete.
Dead anarchists make martyrs, you know, and keep living for centuries. But absent ones can be forgotten.
Well, I certainly wouldn't want to live in the 18th century myself, or the 19th either, for that matter.
It is striking how much more seriously we are likely to be taken after we have been dead a few centuries.
Human women have been slapping men for being bastards for centuries. You were doing what comes naturally.
The horror of the Twentieth Century was the size of each new event, and the paucity of its reverberation.
Uncommon things must be said in common words, if you would have them to be received in less than a century.
I think Picasso was, without doubt, the greatest portraitist of the 20th century, if not any other century.
The 21st Century has begun as an era of uncertainty, with a heightened focus on security and public safety.
Until the seventeenth century there was no concept of evidence with which to pose the problem of induction!
It has become much harder, in the past century, to tell where the garden leaves off and pure nature begins.
The French, the Italians, the Germans, the Spanish and the English have spent centuries killing each other.
It's hard for me to think of others because I'm not particularly in sympathy with the music of this century.
We are about half a century away from being ecologically and economically bankrupt because of global warming
What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth.
For more than a quarter of a century on active duty, my house has been my tent, and my home the battlefield.
The worst thing about being a great power is when you're not one any more. It takes centuries to get over it.
As I've gotten older I've become a devotee of 19th-century authors, such as Charles Dickens and George Eliot.
Vladimir Nabokov said the two great evils of the 20th century were Marx and Freud. He was absolutely correct.
I am a 21st century person who was accidentally launched in the 20th. I have a deep nostalgia for the future.
There is a wealth of twentieth century music that is being re-discovered by a generation that hasnt heard it.
Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history.
Since creation of the E.U. a half century ago, Europe has enjoyed the longest period of peace in its history.
The worst part of being gay in the twentieth century is all that damn disco music to which one has to listen.
Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.
The real passion of the twentieth century is servitude.
What if miliseconds influence centuries?
India is going to be the 21st century's Saudi Arabia in terms of human resources
Nor sequent centuries could hitOrbit and sum of Shakespeare's wit.
The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.
The thriller is the most popular literary genre of the 20th century.
The century of aeroplanes deserves its own music. As there are no precedents, I must create anew.
It never occurred to any Enlightenment figure in the eighteenth century that law was not preferable to man.
I think there's every reason this 21st century will be much happier.
What Galileo and Newton were to the seventeenth century, Darwin was to the nineteenth.
The Middle East is obviously an issue that has plagued the region for centuries.
For a century longer, Rome still retains its outward form, but the swarming nations are now in full career.
A house cannot be made habitable in a day; and, after all, how few days go to make up a century.
I like to compare my method with that of painters centuries ago, proceeding from layer to layer.
He ran a gas station down in St. Louis. No, Mahatma Gandhi was a great leader of the 20th century.
The real 19th century prophet was Dostoevsky, not Karl Marx.
The passages of Shakespeare that we most prize were never quoted until within this century.
The 20th century was the century of war and blood. The 21st century is the century of dialogue.
The United States has been a Pacific nation for over two centuries. That's not going to change.