Right up to the middle of this century all perceptions of the world around us were delivered via the bookshelf or the paper route.
Theodore Bikel
The real passion of the twentieth century is servitude.
Albert Camus
I don't think I would have been great in the 17th century. I would have enjoyed the frocks, and certainly some of the food would have been... →
Peter Capaldi
I had never read Victorian novels before going overseas. I read a handful of authors, but I had not immersed myself in the literature of the 19th... →
Eleanor Catton
You go back to the 17th century, the commercial and industrial centers of the world were China and India.
Noam Chomsky
Let me state what the official IPCC prediction is: Sea levels could go up as much as three-quarters of a meter in this century, but there is a... →
Steven Chu
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
Towards the end of the eighteenth century the industrial-financial revolution began.
Ralph Adams Cram
There's so much in the 21st century that is stymied by bureaucracy and mediocrity and committee.
Benedict Cumberbatch
The century of airplanes has a right to its own music.
Claude Debussy