Century Quotes

• The intelligent minority of this world will mark 1 January 2001 as the real beginning of the 21st century and the Third Millennium.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Real, Intelligent, Minorities

  Sunday Times (Sri Lanka), December 31, 2000.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Science, Order, Ideas

  15 Copy quote

• The cave art of Madison Avenue has been by far the most innovative and educative art form of the twentieth century.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Art, Business, Caves

  "Culture Is Our Business". Book by Marshall McLuhan, 1970.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• A technical survey that systematize, digest, and appraise the mid century state of psychology.

  Stanley Smith Stevens

  Psychology, States, Surveys

  6 Copy quote

• Eisenhower is my choice as the American of the 20th Century. Of all the men I've studied and written about, he is the brightest and the best.

  Stephen Ambrose

  Men, Choices, Written

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

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Well Washington DC what are you going to do. They think the capitol steps are the state of the art in comedy. You try to drag them into the 20th century let alone the 21st and they refuse to come with you.

  Harry Shearer

  Art, Thinking, Trying

  15 Copy quote

• I think the next century will be the century of complexity.

  Stephen Hawking

  Thinking, Next, Complexity

  8 Copy quote

• In the 21st century, I think the heroes will be the people who will improve the quality of life, fight poverty and introduce more sustainability.

  Bertrand Piccard

  Hero, Fighting, Thinking

  "Adventurer sets sights on the sun for an 'impossible' dream". CNN Interview, www.cnn.com. January 19, 2010.

  57 Copy quote

  Show source

• A world without walls is the only sustainable world. . . . If the world is dominated by people who believe that their races, their religions, their ethnic differences are the most important factors, then a huge number of people will perish in this century.

  William J. Clinton

  Wall, Believe, Race

  6 Copy quote

• The Renaissance of the fifteenth century was, in many things, great rather by what it designed then by what it achieved.

  Walter Pater

  Renaissance

  Walter Pater (2013). “The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry”, p.26, Courier Corporation

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• I am convinced that the modular structure of the Mir will be the main trend in manned orbital stations development in the next century

  Valentina Tereshkova

  Development, Trends, Next

  14 Copy quote

• In the 21st century, white America got a wake-up call after 9/11/01. White America and the western world came to realize that people of color had not gone away, faded into the woodwork or just 'disappeared' as the Great White West kept on its merry way of ignoring black concerns.

  Jeremiah Wright

  Color, Gone Away, White

  29 Copy quote

• When a finished work of 20th century sculpture is placed in an 18th century garden, it is absorbed by the ideal representation of the past, thus reinforcing political and social values that are no longer with us

  Robert Smithson

  Artist, Past, Garden

  Robert Smithson, Jack D. Flam (1996). “Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings”, p.155, Univ of California Press

  75 Copy quote

  Show source

• The marriage of reason and nightmare which has dominated the 20th century has given birth to an ever more ambiguous world. Across the communications landscape move the specters of sinister technologies and the dreams that money can buy. Thermonuclear weapons systems and soft drink commercials coexist in an overlit realm ruled by advertising and pseudoevents, science and pornography. Over our lives preside the great twin leitmotifs of the 20th century-sex and paranoia.

  J. G. Ballard

  Dream, Sex, Moving

  16 Copy quote

• It is the mission of the twentieth century to elucidate the irrational.

  Maurice Merleau-Ponty

  Missions, Irrational, Twentieth Century

  6 Copy quote

• We African Americans have now spent the major part of the 20th Century battling racism

  Constance Baker Motley

  Racism, African American, Racist

  7 Copy quote

• American education has been littered with failed fads and foolish ideas for the past century.

  Diane Ravitch

  Stupid, Past, Ideas

  15 Copy quote

• Anybody in the next centuries wanting to know what it was like to be a poet in the middle of the 20th century should read Kaddish.

  Leslie Fiedler

  Next, Poet, Middle

  6 Copy quote

• Involvement in the arts engages kids in their community, improves self-esteem, reclaims at-risk youth, and builds the creative skills that are required of a 21st century workforce

  Gavin Newsom

  Art, Self Esteem, Kids

  47 Copy quote

• In the latter half of the last century the impact of the expanding influence of Western culture and economic system brought about in China a severe conflict.

  Chen-Ning Yang

  Impact, Western Culture, Half

  Chen Ning Yang (2005). “Selected Papers, 1945-1980, with Commentary”, p.247, World Scientific

  19 Copy quote

  Show source

• Hey, any team can have a bad century.

  Tom Trebelhorn

  Team, Hey

  6 Copy quote

• The 20th Century was the century of Aviation and the century of Globalization. The next century will be the century of Space.

  Wilson Greatbatch

  Space, Next, Aviation

  Wilson Greatbatch (2000). “The Making of the Pacemaker: Celebrating a Lifesaving Invention”

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• The consideration of change over the century is about loss, though I think that social change is gain rather than loss.

  Penelope Lively

  Loss, Thinking, Lost Friendship

  "'I'm not a historian but I can get obsessively interested in the past'". Interview with Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. August 25, 2001.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• I am a woman of the 21st Century who is self-assured and speaks my mind

  Ednita Nazario

  Self, Mind, Speak

  6 Copy quote

• As for sticking strictly to presently known science, I will simply point out that we have already experienced at least two major revolutions in science in this century alone.

  Stanley Schmidt

  Science, Two, Revolution

  6 Copy quote