19th Century Quotes - Page 7

• Every single great idea that has marked the 21st century, the 20th century and the 19th century has required government vision and government incentive.

  Joe Biden

  Government, Ideas, Vision

  "Glenn Beck: The Deindustrialization of America". "Glenn Back" with Glenn Beck, www.foxnews.com. October 28,2010.

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• When I was a kid, I looked at art as a way of blending everything. One of my favorite composers is Wagner - who coined the term "gesamtkunstwerk," or "total art work." That's what was going on in the 19th century, and the 20th century just kept it going.

  DJ Spooky

  Art, Kids, Way

  "DJ Spooky’s Icy Philharmonic". Interview with Hannah Levintova, www.motherjones.com. October 17, 2011.

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• For daughters of the new American billionaires of the 19th century, it was the ultimate deal: marriage to a cash-strapped British Aristocrat in return for a title and social status. But money didn't always buy them happiness.

  Daisy Goodwin

  Daughter, Titles, Cash

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• If there was a little shine of gold on the moon, the mankind would have been to the moon even in the 19th century!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Moon, Shining, Gold

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• I definitely have a Luddite's approach to what's going on. I find that as I get older, I get stupider. For me, the iPhone is harder than reading Faust. I've been hanging out a bit with Lou Reed, and he's the complete opposite. He's into technology and is kind of like a toddler, compared to me, who's like an old 19th-century widow or something.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Reading, Technology, Iphone

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I am one of those people who deeply resents not having been born in the 19th century, when there were still open places to explore.

  Bruce Babbitt

  People, Century, Born

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• People will believe absurd things - in the 19th century and now.

  Harvey Pekar

  Believe, People, Absurd

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• I try to find a style that matches the book. In the Baroque Cycle, I got infected with the prose style of the late 17th and early 18th centuries, which is my favorite era. It's recent enough that it is easy to read - easier than Elizabethan English - but it's pre-Victorian and so doesn't have the pomposity that is often a problem with 19th-century English prose. It is earthy and direct and frequently hilarious.

  Neal Stephenson

  Book, Style, Trying

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• In the Middle Ages people took potions for their ailments. In the 19th century they took snake oil. Citizens of today's shiny, technological age are too modern for that. They take antioxidants and extract of cactus instead.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Snakes, Oil, People

  "The Return of the Primitive" by Charles Krauthammer, content.time.com. January 29, 1996.

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• Because of my politics, people think I'm anti-American. But I was quite the reverse. What I don't like about the United States is when the government acts like an old, imperial 18th- or 19th-century European power.

  Robert Wyatt

  Thinking, Government, People

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. November 14, 2014.

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• I'm not electronically geared at all; I'm really a 19th century cartoonist. I have a 15-year-old daughter, and what she's attracted to is of course iPod and this pod and that, I mean stuff I don't even begin to know - I never learned how to type for Christ's sake! I can't get in her head and find out what she would do if she had the kind of talent I had, I don't have a clue. Every generation comes up with its own quirkiness and its own culture which gets its inspiration from what's in the air at that time.

  Jules Feiffer

  Daughter, Inspiration, Mean

  "Jules Feiffer, Sketchy Character". Interview With Clara Jeffery, www.motherjones.com. August 30, 2010.

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• It's an irony that growing inequality could mean more money for philanthropy. In the US, quite a few of the ultra-rich have taken to heart the 19th century industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie's comment that it's a disgrace to die wealthy.

  Geoff Mulgan

  Taken, Heart, Mean

  "Civil engineering" by Geoff Mulgan, www.theguardian.com. October 24, 2007.

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• The fundamentalists are insistent that they know best. It's a dictatorial attitude towards personal morality, which is a modern creation that came about in the 19th century.

  Steve Coogan

  Attitude, Morality, Creation

  "Q&A: Steve Coogan on Sex, Drugs & Bad Press". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.esquire.com. July 9, 2013.

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• The 19th century was the great period of engineering, thanks to the railways, thanks to lots of discoveries in metallurgy.

  Joe Harris

  Discovery, Engineering, Thanks

  "Eiffel Tower Celebrates 125th Birthday". Interview With Jeremy Hobson, wwno.org. April 4, 2014.

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• Helvetica was a real step from the 19th century typeface... We were impressed by that because it was more neutral, and neutralism was a word that we loved. It should be neutral. It shouldn't have a meaning in itself. The meaning is in the content of the text and not in the typeface.

  Wim Crouwel

  Real, Steps, Century

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• I read an awful lot in college - a lot of Dickens, a lot of 19th century American stuff, a lot of old mysteries. Maybe it's helped me attain a certain fluidity with my style.

  Josh Lieb

  College, Style, Fluidity

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• Putin wants to reestablish Russian greatness, not as the Cold War, but in 19th century empire terms.

  William J. Clinton

  War, Greatness, Want

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• I cling to the basic set of tenets laid out in Tom Wolfe's 'New Journalism' - to get out there like the great French novelists of the 19th century and study life. I am a Tom Wolfe fan of the first order.

  Peter York

  Study Life, Order, Fans

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• George Bush is by American standards rabidly Upper Class - Eastern, Socially Attractive, WASP, 19th-century money, several generations of Andover and Yale (and, while we're at it, his father, George H. W. 'Poppy' Bush, was a former president and his grandfather was the Nazis' U.S. banker in the 1930s).

  Peter York

  Father, Yale, Class

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• I really, really wanted to write. I loved language. I loved literature. I loved reading. I never read a foreign language, I'm afraid, but I loved Flaubert. I loved the 19th-century classics. I love Thomas Hardy. I wanted to be a goof on a bus, but I wanted to write more.

  Robert Stone

  Reading, Writing, Literature

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I've always thought of science fiction as being, at some level, a 19th-century business.

  Robert Reed

  Fiction, Levels, Century

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• Now, as Mandelbrot points out, ... Nature has played a joke on the mathematicians. The 19th-century mathematicians may not have been lacking in imagination, but Nature was not. The same pathological structures that the mathematicians invented to break loose from 19th-century naturalism turn out to be inherent in familiar objects all around us.

  Freeman Dyson

  Science, Imagination, Nomenclature

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• Many great authors of the 19th century wrote under conditions of strict censorship. The great thing about the art of writing a novel, is that you can write about anything. All you have to say is that it's fiction.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Art, Writing, Fiction

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• If you look at the literature of the 19th century, you get things like Kafka and Dostoevsky, who basically write about feeling bored and alienated. That's because we lost contact with the important things in life like work that you enjoy, or the garden, nature, your family and friends.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Writing, Garden, Things In Life

  "How To Be Idle: An Interview with Tom Hodgkinson". Interview with Katie Renz, www.motherjones.com. June 8, 2005.

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• We had much freer trade in the 19th century. We have much less globalization now than we did then.

  Milton Friedman

  Globalization, Century, Trade

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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